Developmental Psychology Arena

Couples in Conflict

• Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Mari Clements

This volume is based on the presentations and discussions of a national symposium on "Couples in Conflict" that focused on family issues. A common thread...

Published May 1st 2001 by Routledge.

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Does It Take A Village?

Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families

• Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter

Does It Take a Village? focuses on the mechanisms that link community characteristics to the functioning of the families and individuals within them--community norms, economic...

Published January 1st 2001 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Is There Life Without Mother?

Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity

• By Leonard Shengold

In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary...

Published December 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Parenting

What Really Counts?

• By Susan Golombok

Parenting: What Really Counts? examines the scientific evidence on what really matters for children's healthy psychological development.
The first section considers whether it is necessary to...

Published June 19th 2000 by Routledge.

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Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis

Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

• By David B. Allison, Mark S. Roberts

Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis? begins with a thorough review of the original literature on Munchausen patients, from which authors David Allison and Mark Roberts demonstrate...

Published October 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Men in Families

When Do They Get involved? What Difference Does It Make?

• Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter

Recently, the roles of fathers and husbands in families have been recognized as important issues. They appear in legislation aimed at deadbeat dads, social movements...

Published January 1st 1998 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Teenage Pregnancy

The Interaction of Psyche and Culture

• By Anne L. Dean

Unwed teenage pregnancy is a national problem - and a puzzle for clinicians and social psychologists. For how are we to understand a pattern of...

Published January 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Immigration and the Family

Research and Policy on U.s. Immigrants

• Edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter, Nancy Landale, Nancy S. Landale

This book documents the third in a series of annual symposia on family issues--the National Symposium on International Migration and Family Change: The Experience of...

Published January 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Parenting Behaviour and Children's Cognitive Development

• By Sara Meadows

The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of...

Published October 7th 1996 by Psychology Press.

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Family-School Links

How Do They Affect Educational Outcomes?

• Edited by Alan Booth, Judith F. Dunn

Based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on family-school links held at the Pennsylvania State University, this volume brings together psychologists, sociologists,...

Published April 1st 1996 by Routledge.

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