Developmental Psychology Arena

The Child as Social Person

• By Sara Meadows.

Published December 2009

Questions about how children grow up in their social worlds are of enormous significance for parents, teachers, and society at large, as well as for children themselves. Clearly children are shaped by the social world that surrounds them but they also shape the social worlds that they, and those…
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Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems

From Genes to Social Policy

• Edited by Richard E. Tremblay, Marcel A. G. van Aken and Willem Koops.

Published March 2009

This book brings together world leading researchers from diverse fields to explore the potential causes of the development of behaviour problems. The book presents theories that hope to influence public health, education and social policy in the prevention of the costly social troubles that…
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Human Development from Early Childhood to Early Adulthood

Findings from a 20 Year Longitudinal Study

• Edited by Wolfgang Schneider, and Merry Bullock.

Published November 2008

Data generated from longitudinal studies allow researchers to better understand how context and experience interact with stable characteristics of the developing person over time. This book summarizes a landmark longitudinal study of 200 children, from the ages of 3 to 23. The Munich Longitudinal…
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Immigrant Youth in European Countries

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

• Edited by Dagmar Strohmeier, and Eva Schmitt-Rodermund.

Published July 2008

Today, many children and adolescents living in Europe have an immigrant background. For the first time, studies investigating youth belonging to several immigrant groups were collected to form a special issue on their situation. The papers presented here offer a comprehensive introduction&nbsp…
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Developmental Perspectives on Embodiment and Consciousness

• Edited by Willis Overton, Ulrich Mueller and Judith Newman.

Published September 2007

Until recently, the body has been largely ignored in theories and empirical research in psychology, particularly in developmental psychology. Recently however, several conceptions of the relation between body and mind have been developed. Common among these conceptions is the idea that the body…
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Children and Separation

Socio-Genealogical Connectedness Perspective

• By Kwame Owusu-Bempah.

Published June 2007

Childhood separation and loss have become virtually a way of life for a large number of children throughout the world. Children separated from their genetic parent(s) and consequently their genealogical, social and cultural roots due to processes such as adoption, parental divorce/separation, donor…
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Social Cognition During Infancy

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Developmental Psychology

• Edited by Vincent Reid, Tricia Striano and Willem Koops.

Published March 2007

From the fundamental processing of human movement, through to the ability to interpret actions, infancy research is only now taking up the challenge of social cognition over a variety of cognitive areas. This special issue covers broad areas of social-cognitive development and builds a cohesive…
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Risk and Resilience

Adolescent Mothers and Their Children Grow Up

• Edited by John G. Borkowski, Jaelyn R. Farris, Thomas L. Whitman, Shannon S. Carothers and Keri Weed.

Published March 2007

In 1984, a longitudinal study was launched at the University of Notre Dame to evaluate the social and psychological consequences of teenage parenting. Interwoven Lives: Adolescent Mothers and Their Children (2001) described, in detail, the development of these adolescent mothers and their…
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Aggression and Adaptation

The Bright Side to Bad Behavior

• Edited by Patricia H. Hawley, Todd D. Little and Philip C. Rodkin.

Published February 2007

Aggression and Adaptation raises thought provoking questions about interpersonal functioning within social groups. The reader may find him/herself entertaining thoughts about the nature of goodness as the chapters suggest that aggressive behavior can offer significant avenues for personal…
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Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nations and National Groups

• By Martyn Barrett.
• Series Edited by Peter Bryant, and Usha Goswami.

Published November 2006

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. It offers a comprehensive review of the research which has been conducted into: .…
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