Child and Adolescent Psychology

A hugely impressive achievement, offering a broad panoply of understandings of development from a wide diversity of perspectives and disciplines, spanning all the key areas, and forming a comprehensive, detailed and extremely useful text for students and practitioners alike. Dr. Graham Music, Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic London, UK This book provides an extensive overview of the field of developmental psychology. It illustrates how knowledge about typical and atypical development can be integrated and used to highlight fundamental processes of human growth and maturation. The author has written an accessible text which will be of value to undergraduates and postgraduates alike. I can strongly recommend it to all who are keen to learn about this fascinating and rapidly changing field. Dr. John Coleman, PhD, OBE, UK This book is magnificent. It is an extraordinary blend of depth of scholarship with a lucid, and engaging, writing style. Its coverage is impressive: both thorough and timely. An admirable feature of the book is its skillful presentation of typical and atypical development in each chapter. The book is comprehensive, instructive and inviting. Both new and advanced students will love the coverage of this text, will appreciate its use of headers and enjoy its illustrations. Professor Joseph Campos, University of California, USA An amazing achievement. Stephen von Tetzchner's volume has an encyclopedic breadth combined with an unerring eye for the central research across developmental psychology, particularly for the period of its explosive growth since the 1960s. It is remarkable for its even-handed representation of the American and European literatures. Both a text and a reference work, this will be the go-to resource for any teacher, researcher or student of the discipline for the foreseeable future. Professor Andy Lock, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Stephen von Tetzchner is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway.

Chapter 1: Developmental psychology Chapter 2: Theoretical perspectives Chapter 3: Methods of gaining knowledge about children Chapter 4: Child and adolescent disorders Chapter 5: Genes, evolution, heredity and environment Chapter 6: Stimulation and activity during fetal development Chapter 7: Brain development Chapter 8: Perceptual development Chapter 9: Motor development Chapter 10: Theories of cognitive development Chapter 11: Attention, memory and executive function Chapter 12: Conceptual development and reasoning Chapter 13: Mind understanding Chapter 14: Intelligence Chapter 15: Learning and instruction Chapter 16: The development of communication and language Chapter 17: Emotions and emotion regulation Chapter 18: Temperament and personality Chapter 19: Attachment Chapter 20: Sibling and peer relations Chapter 21: Self and identity Chapter 22: Moral development Chapter 23 Prosocial and antisocial development Chapter 24: Gender development Chapter 25: Play Chapter 26: Media and understanding of society Chapter 27: Toward adulthood Glossary Bibliography Index