Product Key Features
Number of Pages1250 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHandbook of Child Psychology
Publication Year2006
SubjectDevelopmental / Child, Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
AuthorRichard M. Lerner, William Damon
Subject AreaPsychology
FormatHardcover
Additional Product Features
Edition Number6
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-043951
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Overall, the volume is clear, comprehensive, and extremely well-written." ( PsycCritiques , April 18, 2007) "...is an internationally known, classic work spanning 75 years of research." ( American Reference Books Annual , March 2007), "The books offer less experienced readers a broad understanding of the issues and also routes to particular topics. More advanced scholars can quickly update themselves on an entire field. And scholars and practitioners can fill in gaps in their experience and perspective by reviewing the chapters in their own fields...The writing is lively, which is unusual for a weighty handbook, and the reader comes away with a real sense of the continuum of research to practice...Summing up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." ?J.F. Heberle, Albright College ( Choice , April 2007) "Overall, the volume is clear, comprehensive, and extremely well-written." ( PsycCritiques , April 18, 2007) "?is an internationally known, classic work spanning 75 years of research." ( American Reference Books Annual , March 2007)
Number of Volumes4 vols.
IllustratedYes
Volume NumberSet
Dewey Decimal155.4
Table Of ContentVOLUME 1.1. Developmental Science, Developmental Systems, and Contemporary Theories of Human Development (Richard M. Lerner).2. Developmental Psychology: Philosophy, Concepts, Methodology (Willis F. Overton).3. The Making of Developmental Psychology (Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns).4. Developmental Epistemology and Implications for Methodology (Jaan Valsiner).5. The Significance of Biology for Human Development: A Developmental Psychobiological Systems Views (Gilbert Gottlieb, Douglas Wahlsten and Robert Lickliter).6. Dynamic Systems Theories (Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith).7. Dynamic Development of Action and Thought (Kurt W Fischer and Thomas R. Bidell).8. The Person in Context: A Holistic-Interactionistic Approach (David Magnusson and H'kan Stattin).9. The Developing Person: An Experiential Perspective (Kevin Rathunde and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi).10. Action Perspectives on Human Development (J. Brandst'dter).11. Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology (Paul B. Baltes, Ulman Lindenberger and Ursula M. Staudinger).12. The Life Course and Human Development (Glen H. Elder and Michael J. Shanahan).13. The Cultural Psychology of Development: One Mind, Many Mentalities (Richard A. Shweder, Jacqueline J. Goodnow, Giyoo Hatano, Robert A. Levine, Hazel R. Markus and Peggy J. Miller).14. The Bioecological Model of Human Development (Urie Bronfenbrenner and Pamela A. Morris).15. Phenomenologitcal and Ecological Systems Theory: Development of Diverse Groups (Margaret Beale Spencer).16. Positive Youth Development: Theory, Research, and Applications (Peter L. Benson, Peter C. Scales, Stephen F. Hamilton and Arturo Sesma).17. Religious and Spiritual Development Throughout the Life Span (Fritz K. Oser, W. George Scarlett and Anton Bucher).Author Index.Subject Index.VOLUME 2.SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS.1. Neural Bases of Cognitive Development (Charles A. Nelson, Kathleen M. Thomas and Michelle de Haan).2. The Infant's Auditory World: Hearing, Speech, and the Beginnings of Language (Jenny R. Saffran, Janet F. Werker and Lynne A. Werner).3. Infant Visual Perception (Philip J. Kellman and Martha E. Arterberry).4. Motor Development (Karen E. Adolph and& Sarah E. Berger).5. Infant Cognition (Leslie B. Cohen and Cara H. Cashon).SECTION TWO: COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION6. Acquiring Linguistic Constructions (Michael Tomasello).7. Early Word Learning (Sandra R. Waxman and Jeffrey L. Lidz).8. Nonverbal Communication: The Hand's Role in Talking and Thinking (Susan Goldin-Meadow).SECTION THREE: COGNITIVE PROCESSES.9. Event Memory (Patricia J. Bauer).10. Information Processing Approaches to Development (Yuko Munakata).11. Microgenetic Analysis of Learning (Robert S. Siegler).12. Cognitive Strategies Michael Pressley and Katherine Hilden).13. Reasoning and Problem Solving (Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews).14. Cognitive Science and Cognitive Development (Frank Keil).15. Culture and Cognitive Development in Phylogenetic, Historical, and Ontogenetic Perspective (Michael Cole).SECTION FOUR: CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND ACHIEVMENTS.16. Conceptual Development (Susan A. Gelman and Charles W. Kalish).17. Development of Spatial Cognition (Nora S. Newcombe and Janellen Huttenlocher).18. Development of Mathematical Understanding (David C. Geary).19. Social Cognition (Paul L. Harris).20. Development in the Arts: Drawing and Music (Ellen Winner).21. Extraordinary Achievements: A Developmental and Systems Analysis (Seana Moran and Howard Gardner).SECTION FIVE: THE PERSPECTIVE BEYOND CHILDHOOD.22. The Second Decade: What Develops (and how) (Deanna Kuhn and Sam Franklin).Author Index.Subject Index.VOLUME 3.1. Introduction (Nancy
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThis authoritative four-volume reference spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Sixth Edition is sure to be as successful as the previous editions.
LC Classification NumberBF721.H242 2006