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  • Patterns of Attachment

    A Psychological Study of the Strange Situation

    First published in 1979. Ethological attachment theory is a landmark of 20th century social and behavioral sciences theory and research. This new paradigm for understanding primary relationships across the lifespan evolved from John Bowlby's critique of psychoanalytic drive theory and his own clinical observations, supplemented by his knowledge of fields as diverse as primate ethology, control ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Confidence To Be Yourself

    How to boost your self-esteem

    by Dr Brian Roet ...
    Do you brim with confidence and live your life to the full? Or are there areas of your life where you are less secure and would benefit from increased confidence and assertiveness?We all need confidence to fulfil our potential. It is a quality that marks out those who enjoy life, their work and relationships. In this invaluable handbook, Dr Roet uses practical techniques and case histories to help ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Theories of Human Development

    A Comparative Approach

    The authors have grouped the theories into three classical "families" which differ in their views relative to the prime motives underlying human nature. They show how theories are specific examples of more general points of view called paradigms. The theories chosen to represent the three paradigms (the Endogenous Paradigm, Exogenous Paradigm, and the Constructivist Paradigm) were selected because ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • The Nature-Nurture Debates

    Bridging the Gap

    How is it possible that in more than one hundred years, the nature-nurture debate has not come to a satisfactory resolution? The problem, Dale Goldhaber argues, lies not with the proposed answers, but with the question itself. In The Nature-Nurture Debate, Goldhaber reviews the four major perspectives on the issue - behavior genetics, environment, evolutionary psychology and developmental systems ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Music Therapy and Parent-Infant Bonding

    Edited by Jane Edwards ...
    Music therapy is an internationally recognised field of professional evidence-based practice. Qualified music therapists use the engaging, non-verbal aspects of music to create relationships in which therapeutic goals can be pursued and needs of clients addressed. This is the first book to focus specifically on the ways that music therapists provide support for the development of the special and ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Motives in Children's Development

    Cultural-Historical Approaches

    The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Handbook of Intelligence

    Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition. Emerging from often conflicting studies is the provocative idea that intelligence evolved as an adaptation humans needed to keep up with – and survive in – challenging new environments.The Handbook of Intelligence addresses a broad range of ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Piaget Or the Advance of Knowledge

    An Overview and Glossary

    This unusual volume presents an overview of Jean Piaget's work in psychology--from his earliest writings to posthumous publications. It also contains a glossary of the essential explanatory concepts found in this work. The focus is on Piaget's psychological studies and on the underlying epistemological theses. The book may be consulted in various ways depending on whether one is looking for an ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 27

    Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry

    Edited by Lois T. Flaherty ...
    Volume 27 of Adolescent Psychiatry focuses on trauma and violence among adolescents, and attends especially to the psychological, biological, and social impact of trauma on its victims, especially the young. Schonfeld Award papers offer a historical perspective on adolescent violence in America, and examine terrorism by looking at the appeal of ideologies that espouse violent revolution to young ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Character Focalization in Children’s Novels

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels. The author argues that character focalization, defined as the location of fictional world perception in the mind of a character, is a prominent textual structure in these novels. He demonstrates how significant meanings are conveyed in a variety of forms related to characters’ ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Failure to Flourish

    How Law Undermines Family Relationships

    Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families. Strong, stable, positive relationships are essential for both individuals and society to flourish, but from transportation policy to the criminal justice system, and from divorce ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Adolescent Storm and Stress

    An Evaluation of the Mead-freeman Controversy

    Series series Research Monographs in Adolescence Series
    In 1928, Margaret Mead published her first book, entitled Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she described to the Western world an exotic culture where people "came of age" with a minimum of "storm and stress." In 1983, Derek Freeman, an Australian anthropologist, published a book in which he systematically attacked Mead's conclusions about that culture and the way people came of age. Since then, a ... Read more

    $73.99 USD