- Betrayal Trauma
- Jennifer J. Freyd
- This book lays bare the logic of forgotten abuse. Psychologist Jennifer Freyd's breakthrough theory explaining this phenomenon shows how psychogenic amnesia not only happens but also, if the abuse occurred at the hands of a parent or caregiver, is often necessary for survival.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- Child Soldiers
- Michael Wessells
- Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Based mainly on participatory research and interviews with hundreds of former child soldiers worldwide, Wessells allows these ex-soldiers to speak for themselves. A passionate call for action, Child Soldiers pushes readers to go beyond the horror stories to develop local and global strategies to stop this theft of childhood.
- Hardcover 2007
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- The Science and Fiction of Autism
- Laura Schreibman
- In The Science and Fiction of Autism, one of the country's leading experts in behavioral treatments approaches autism through the context of its controversies, showing where extraordinary and unfounded claims have falsely raised hopes, stirred fears, and ruined lives.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Surprise, Uncertainty, and Mental Structures
- Jerome Kagan
- Hardcover 2002
- Taming the Troublesome Child
- Kathleen W. Jones
- In her examination of juvenile misconduct, Kathleen Jones reveals the complex history of "child guidance," a specialized psychological service developed early in the twentieth century which prompted our reliance on psychological explanations for juvenile offenses and ultimately lead to a harsh critique of American mothers. Her book reveals the uses to which professionals and patients have put this interpretation of juvenile misbehavior, and the conditions that mother-blaming has imposed on social policy and private child rearing to this day.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- Then They Started Shooting
- Lynne Jones
- What happens to children who grow up with war? Child psychiatrist Jones draws the reader into the compelling stories of Serbian and Muslim children who came of age during the Bosnian wars of the 1990s. These children endured hardship, loss, family disruption, and constant uncertainty, and yet in a blow to psychiatric orthodoxy, few showed lasting signs of trauma.
- Hardcover 2005