Elements in Child Development – serie
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39 produkter
Bilingual Development in Childhood
Häftad, 2021
279 kr
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In the first decade of life, children become bilingual in different language learning environments. Many children start learning two languages from birth (Bilingual First Language Acquisition). In early childhood hitherto monolingual children start hearing a second language through daycare or …
Gender in Childhood
Av Christia Spears Brown, Sharla D. Biefeld m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
279 kr
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Gender is a highly salient and important social group that shapes how children interact with others and how they are treated by others. In this Element, we offer an overview and review of the research on gender development in childhood from a developmental science perspective. We first define …
Children's Imagination
Häftad, 2022
300 kr
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Children's imagination was traditionally seen as a wayward, desire-driven faculty that is eventually constrained by rationality. A more recent, Romantic view claims that young children's fertile imagination is increasingly dulled by schooling. Contrary to both perspectives, this Element argues …
Socialization and Socioemotional Development in Chinese Children
Av Xinyin Chen
Häftad, 2023
395 kr
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Children's early temperamental characteristics have a pervasive impact on the development of socioemotional functioning. Through socialization and social interaction processes, cultural beliefs and values play a role in shaping the meanings of socioemotional characteristics and in determining their …
Life History and Child Development
Av Lei Chang, Hui Jing Lu
Häftad, 2025
274 kr
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The biological life history (LH) theory has been increasingly utilized in psychology, especially in developmental psychology. However, there has not been a comprehensive text on the topic thatalso addresses applications in psychology. This Element fills this void. Organized into five sections, it …
Autobiographical Memory and Narrative in Childhood
Av Robyn Fivush
Häftad, 2022
300 kr
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This Element delineates how the narrative expression of autobiographical memory develops through everyday interactions that frame the forms and functions of autobiographical remembering. Narratives are both outward and inward facing, providing the interface between how we perceive the world and how …
Children and Climate Change
Av Ann V. Sanson, Karina Padilla Malca m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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The existential threat posed by climate change presents a challenge to all those concerned about the next generation. This Element reviews and discusses its implications for the development of children (ages 0-12) today and in the future, and for the parents, teachers, researchers, and …
Children's Eyewitness Testimony and Event Memory
Häftad, 2022
300 kr
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This Element addresses the factors that influence children's accuracy in reporting on events and draws implications for children's ability to serve as reliable eyewitnesses. The following topics are covered: short- and long-term memory for event details; memory for stressful events; memory for the …
Giftedness in Childhood
Av Robert J. Sternberg, Ophélie A. Desmet
Häftad, 2024
300 kr
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Giftedness often is defined in a transactional way: individuals give something in return for getting something from authorities who label them as gifted; the labeling authority then expects those individuals identified as 'gifted' to act in ways that justify the label. The authors place emphasis on …
The Adopted Child
Av David Brodzinsky, Jesus Palacios
Häftad, 2024
300 kr
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This Element overviews recent research on children's adjustment to adoption and its relevance for key questions addressed in developmental science. First, a historical perspective on trends in adoption practice and adoptive family life is offered. Second, research on children's adjustment to …
Equity for Children in the United States
Av Shantel Meek, Evandra Catherine m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
293 kr
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All children deserve access to the conditions and opportunities needed to thrive, including unbiased accessible healthcare and high-quality learning opportunities; safe, toxin-free communities and stable housing; access to nutritious meals; and secure, warm, available, and loving caregivers. …
Theory of Mind in Childhood
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element describes the development of a Theory of Mind, or mentalizing, in infancy and early childhood. Theory of Mind is a key social cognitive ability that permits children to predict and explain human behaviors by attributing mental states to other people. Understanding mental states …
Children's Defensive Mindset
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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The primary psychological process leading aggressive children to grow into dysfunctional adults is a defensive mindset, which encompasses a pattern of deviant social information processing steps, including hypervigilance to threat; hostile attributional biases; psychophysiological reactivity, …
Stress in Childhood
Av Camelia E. Hostinar, Anna M. Parenteau m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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The innocence of childhood does not protect against exposure to stress. More than half of US children are exposed to adverse experiences, such as abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic violence, parental psychopathology, or divorce, and all children encounter normative stressors like school …
The Adopted Child
Av David Brodzinsky, Jesus Palacios
Inbunden, 2024
885 kr
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This Element overviews recent research on children's adjustment to adoption and its relevance for key questions addressed in developmental science. First, a historical perspective on trends in adoption practice and adoptive family life is offered. Second, research on children's adjustment to …
Equity for Children in the United States
Av Shantel Meek, Evandra Catherine m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
885 kr
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All children deserve access to the conditions and opportunities needed to thrive, including unbiased accessible healthcare and high-quality learning opportunities; safe, toxin-free communities and stable housing; access to nutritious meals; and secure, warm, available, and loving caregivers. …
Giftedness in Childhood
Av Robert J. Sternberg, Ophélie A. Desmet
Inbunden, 2024
885 kr
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Giftedness often is defined in a transactional way: individuals give something in return for getting something from authorities who label them as gifted; the labeling authority then expects those individuals identified as 'gifted' to act in ways that justify the label. The authors place emphasis on …
Early Childhood and Digital Media
Av Rachel Barr, Heather Kirkorian m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Screen time, defined as estimates of child time spent with digital media, is considered harmful to very young children. At the same time, the use of digital media by children under five years of age has increased dramatically, and with the advent of mobile and streaming media can occur anywhere and …
Children's Defensive Mindset
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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The primary psychological process leading aggressive children to grow into dysfunctional adults is a defensive mindset, which encompasses a pattern of deviant social information processing steps, including hypervigilance to threat; hostile attributional biases; psychophysiological reactivity, …
Temperament and Child Development in Context
Av Liliana J. Lengua, Maria A. Gartstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Children's temperament is a central individual characteristic that has significant implications, directly and indirectly, for their social, emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and health outcomes, through its evocative and moderating effects on other social and contextual influences. Accounting for …
Temperament and Child Development in Context
Av Liliana J. Lengua, Maria A. Gartstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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Children's temperament is a central individual characteristic that has significant implications, directly and indirectly, for their social, emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and health outcomes, through its evocative and moderating effects on other social and contextual influences. Accounting for …
Life History and Child Development
Av Lei Chang, Hui Jing Lu
Inbunden, 2025
885 kr
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The biological life history (LH) theory has been increasingly utilized in psychology, especially in developmental psychology. However, there has not been a comprehensive text on the topic thatalso addresses applications in psychology. This Element fills this void. Organized into five sections, it …
Theory of Mind in Childhood
Inbunden, 2025
892 kr
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This Element describes the development of a Theory of Mind, or mentalizing, in infancy and early childhood. Theory of Mind is a key social cognitive ability that permits children to predict and explain human behaviors by attributing mental states to other people. Understanding mental states …
Stress in Childhood
Av Camelia E. Hostinar, Anna M. Parenteau m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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The innocence of childhood does not protect against exposure to stress. More than half of US children are exposed to adverse experiences, such as abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic violence, parental psychopathology, or divorce, and all children encounter normative stressors like school …
Children in War
Attachment, Trauma, Support, and Recovery
Av Dmytro Martsenkovskyi, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
253 kr
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In Children in War, we describe the impact of armed conflicts and war on children and family life and elaborate on ways in which children in and after war can be supported. Attachment theory rooted in the World Wars raging in the 20th century is one of our conceptual underpinnings. The protracted …
Children in War
Attachment, Trauma, Support, and Recovery
Av Dmytro Martsenkovskyi, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
815 kr
Kommande
In Children in War, we describe the impact of armed conflicts and war on children and family life and elaborate on ways in which children in and after war can be supported. Attachment theory rooted in the World Wars raging in the 20th century is one of our conceptual underpinnings. The protracted …
Autism Spectrum Disorder in Childhood
Av Kyle Sterrett, Hillary Schiltz m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
284 kr
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This Element provides a broad overview of autism spectrum disorder from early childhood through adolescence. The Element reviews high-impact areas of research relevant to young children, including the shifting diagnostic conceptualizations of autism, current best practices related to screening and …
Autism Spectrum Disorder in Childhood
Av Kyle Sterrett, Hillary Schiltz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
918 kr
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This Element provides a broad overview of autism spectrum disorder from early childhood through adolescence. The Element reviews high-impact areas of research relevant to young children, including the shifting diagnostic conceptualizations of autism, current best practices related to screening and …
The Child's Environment
Häftad, 2020
300 kr
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The focus of this Element is on the environment and how it is implicated in children's development.A very broad array of social and physical features connected to children's home life and to the neighborhoods where children live, including multiple aspects of parenting, housing characteristics and …
Child Development in Evolutionary Perspective
Häftad, 2020
300 kr
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Natural selection has operated as strongly or more so on the early stages of the lifespan as on adulthood. One evolved feature of human childhood is high levels of behavioral, cognitive, and neural plasticity, permitting children to adapt to a wide range of physical and social environments. Taking …
