- Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind
- Juan Carlos Gomez
- In this fascinating introduction to the study of primate minds, Gomez identifies evolutionary resemblances--and differences--between human children and other primates. He argues that primate minds are best understood not as fixed collections of specialized cognitive capacities, but more dynamically, as a range of abilities that can surpass their original adaptations.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- The Caring Child
- Nancy Eisenberg
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- Child Abuse
- C. Henry Kempe
- Recent statistics have shown that between two and six percent of all children in the United States are seriously injured by parental assault or neglect. In this book, a giant step is taken toward reducing these dreadful statistics.
- Paperback
- The Child's Discovery of the Mind
- Janet Astington
- "Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture, enabling them to make sense of the world. Astington provides a valuable overview of current research and of the consequences of this discovery' for intellectual and social development.
- Paperback 1994 / Hardcover 1994
- Children Solving Problems
- Stephanie Thornton
- Stephanie Thornton surveys recent research from a broad range of perspectives in order to explore why successful problem-solving depends less on how smart we are--or, as the pioneering psychologist Jean Piaget claimed, how advanced is our skill in logical reasoning--and more on the factual knowledge we acquire as we learn and interpret cues from the world around us.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- Children with Autism
- Marian Sigman
- Lisa Capps
- As they make sense of the many features of autism at every level of intellectual functioning across the life span, Marian Sigman and Lisa Capps weave together clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations, and historical accounts. The result is a compelling, comprehensive view of the disorder, as true to human experience as it is to scientific observation.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- Children's Friendships
- Zick Rubin
- Paperback
- Children’s Talk
- Catherine Garvey
- How do children learn the intangible rules of conversation, how do they make talk "work?" Adults usually regard talk as a simple means of conveying information. Garvey explains the importance of talk to children's socialization and development and shows why talk is an integral and revealing part of the child's life that reflects important changes in thinking and social interaction.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Cultural Psychology
- Michael Cole
- The distinguished psychologist Michael Cole, known for his pioneering work in literacy, cognition, and human development, offers a multifaceted account of what cultural psychology is, what it has been, and what it can be. A rare synthesis of the theory and empirical work shaping the field, this book will become a major foundation for the emerging discipline.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Early Literacy
- Joan Brooks McLane
- Gillian Dowley McNamee
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- The First Relationship
- Daniel N. Stern
- Stern's pathbreaking video-based research into the intimate complexities of mother-infant interaction has had an enormous impact on psychotherapy and developmental psychology. Now a noted authority on early development, Stern first reviewed his unique methods and observations in The First Relationship. Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, it offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his subsequent books.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Growing Up With a Single Parent
- Sarah McLanahan
- Gary Sandefur
- More than half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children will not fare as well as their peers who live with both parents. This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book. Based on four national surveys and drawing on more than a decade of research, Growing Up with a Single Parent elucidates the connection between family structure and a child's prospects for success.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback
- The Healthy Child
- Harold C. Stuart, Editor
- Dane G. Prugh, Editor
- Hardcover 1960
- How Infants Know Minds
- Vasudevi Reddy
- Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of “other minds” by proposing a “second-person” solution: we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.
- Hardcover 2008
- Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age
- Dorothy G. Singer
- Jerome L. Singer
- Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and concern--created by electronic media.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Infancy
- Tiffany Field
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- The Infant's World
- Philippe Rochat
- In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants develop capabilities and conceptual understanding in relation to three interconnected domains: the self, objects, and other people.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004
- The Learning-Disabled Child
- Sylvia Farnham-Diggory
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- The Long Shadow of Temperament
- Jerome Kagan
- Nancy Snidman
- We have seen these children--the shy and the sociable, the cautious and the daring--and wondered what makes one avoid new experience and another avidly pursue it. At the crux of the issue is the study that Jerome Kagan and his colleagues have been conducting for more than two decades. Kagan and Nancy Snidman summarize the results of this unique inquiry into human temperaments, one of the best-known longitudinal studies in developmental psychology. These results reveal how deeply certain fundamental temperamental biases can be preserved over development.
- Hardcover 2004
- Mental Retardation
- Robert B. Edgerton
- This book makes it clear that many of the problems of retardation are caused by the misunderstanding and intolerance of a society like our own, which places extraordinary emphasis on mental ability and its measurable manifestations: school achievement and IQ. It is just this sort of intolerance and misunderstanding that this book does so much to dispel.
- Hardcover 1979 / Paperback
- Mind and Media
- Patricia Marks Greenfield
- Video games, television, and computers are facts of life for today's children. Anxious parents and teachers, concerned with maintaining the intellectual and social richness of childhood, need to understand their effects. Greenfield urges that we explore how the various media can be used to promote social growth and thinking skills.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Pathways to Language
- Kyra Karmiloff
- Annette Karmiloff-Smith
- A remarkable mother-daughter collaboration balances the respected views of a well-known scholar with the fresh perspective of a younger colleague in a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of language acquisition.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- The Philosophy of Childhood
- Gareth Matthews
- Adult preconceptions about the mental life of children tend to discourage a child's philosophical bent, Matthews suggests. By exposing the underpinnings of our adult views of childhood, he clears the way for recognizing the philosophy of childhood as a legitimate field of inquiry. He then conducts us through various influential models for understanding what it is to be a child, from the theory that individual development recapitulates the development of the human species to accounts of moral and cognitive development, including Piaget's revolutionary model.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Play
- Catherine Garvey
- Garvey explores some of the more promising new directions in the study of children's play and summarizes the findings of recent research.
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Point of Words
- Ellen Winner
- Psychologist Ellen Winner studies the creative, nonliteral discourse of children's spontaneous speech, examining how their abilities to use and interpret figurative language change as they grow older, and what such language shows us about the changing features of children's minds.
- Paperback 1997
- The Psychology of Childbirth
- Aidan Macfarlane
- Paperback
- Reaching Higher
- Rhona S. Weinstein
- Drawing upon a generation of research on self-fulfilling prophecies in education, Reaching Higher argues that our expectations of children are often too low. Weinstein shows that children typed early as "not very smart" can go on to accomplish far more than is expected of them by an educational system with too narrow a definition of ability. She faults the system, pointing out that teachers themselves are harnessed by policies that do not enable them to reach higher for all children.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Real Kids
- Susan L. Engel
- Engel argues that the "scientist in a crib" view held by many parents and teachers encourages them to expect more logical reasoning and emotional self-control from children than they possess. She provides a concise and valuable overview of what modern developmental psychologists have learned about children's developing powers of perception and capacity for reasoning, but also suggests new ways of studying children that better capture the truth about their young minds.
- Hardcover 2005
- Rethinking Juvenile Justice
- Elizabeth S. Scott
- Laurence Steinberg
- What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.
- Hardcover 2008
- Schooling
- Sylvia Farnham-Diggory
- Recent decades have witnessed unprocedented advances in research on human development. In those same decades there have been profound charges in public policy toward children. Each book in the Developing Child series reflects the importance of such research in its own right and as it bear on the formulation of policy. It is the purpose series to make the finding of this research available to those who are responsible for raising a new generation and for shaping policy on its behalf. We hope that these books will provide rich and useful information for parents, educators, child-care professors, students of developmental psychology, and all others concerned with the challenge of human growth.
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Sisters and Brothers
- Judy Dunn
- The sibling relationship, as any parent with two or more children knows, is an extraordinarily intense one: young brothers and sisters love and hate, play and fight, tease and mock each other with a devastating lack of inhibition. In this timely and unusual glimpse into the world of the child, Dunn argues that in fighting, bullying, or comforting, very young sisters and brothers possess a far deeper understanding of others than psychologists have supposed.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
- What We Know About Childcare
- Alison Clarke-Stewart
- Virginia D. Allhusen
- Backed by the best current research, Clarke-Stewart and Allhusen bring a reassuring answer to parents' fears and offer guidance for making difficult decisions. Quality child care, they show, may be even more beneficial to children than staying at home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be unruly compared with children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and reap the additional benefits of engaging with other children.
- Hardcover 2005
- Why the Wild Things Are
- Gail F. Melson
- This is the first book to examine children's many connections to animals and to explore their developmental significance. Gail Melson looks not only at the therapeutic power of pet-owning for children with emotional or physical handicaps, but also the ways in which zoo and farm animals, and even certain television characters, become confidants or teachers for children--and sometimes, tragically, their victims.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2005
- Working and Growing Up in America
- Jeylan T. Mortimer
- Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a "precocious" transition to adulthood? This report from a remarkable longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the beginning of high school through their mid-twenties, answers, resoundingly, no.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005
- Young Minds in Social Worlds
- Katherine Nelson
- Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become.
- Hardcover 2007