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America's Children

America's Children

Autor: Donald J. Hernandez

Número de Páginas: 505

America's Children offers a valuable overview of the dramatic transformations in American childhood over the past fifty years, a period of historic shifts that reduced the human and material resources available to our children. Alarmingly, one fifth of all U.S. children now grow up in poverty, many are without health insurance, and about 30 percent never graduate from high school. Despite such conditions, economic, family, and educational programs for children earn low national priority and must depend on inconsistent state and local management. Drawing upon both historical and recent data, including census information from 1940 to 1980, Donald J. Hernandez provides a vivid portrait of children in America and puts forth a forceful case for overhauling our national child welfare policies. Hernandez shows how important revolutions in household composition and income, parental education and employment, childcare, and levels of poverty have affected children's well-being. As working wives and single mothers increasingly replace the traditional homemaker, children spend greater portions of time in educational and daycare facilities outside the home, and those with single mothers stand...

Cómo multiplicar la inteligencia de su bebé

Cómo multiplicar la inteligencia de su bebé

Autor: Glenn Doman

Número de Páginas: 268

Este libro es el resultado de muchos años de experiencia del autor. En este tiempo dice no sólo hemos elevado notablemente la inteligencia de los niños, sino que esta labor se ha hecho con la colaboración de los padres, actores principalísimos en este proceso que nos enseña que no sólo es posible, sino sencillo y placentero.

Current Catalog

Current Catalog

Autor: National Library Of Medicine (u.s.)

Número de Páginas: 1144

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

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Child Development

Autor: Alison Clarke-stewart , Susan Friedman

Número de Páginas: 623

These well-known authors present a chronologically organized introduction to child and adolescent development. Research oriented, the text brings together research and real children with interludes or vignettes. The book provides a logical and straightforward organization emphasizing development in its social context written in an accessible, conversational tone. It stresses practical issues and features research focus boxes, chapter outlines, attractive design and illustration material, a glossary of key terms and study questions.

Children in Play, Story, and School

Children in Play, Story, and School

Autor: Artin G?nc? , Elisa Klein

Número de Páginas: 420

Imaginative play and story telling occupy key roles in children's psychological development and socialization. Bringing together leading contributors, this volume explores what play and story mean to young children, and how these vital aspects of development can best be supported in child care and educational settings. Vital connections are drawn between children's activities, their interpersonal relationships, and their emerging cognitive and affective capacities. Topics covered include promoting social play in the classroom, storytelling and literacy development, and the influences of early caregiving experiences on attachment and learning. Theoretical and methodological issues in these areas of research are also addressed, as well as social policy implications. The book is inspired by the work of Greta G. Fein, the pioneering teacher, researcher, and child care policymaker, who has contributed an integrative concluding chapter.

Inquietud y bienestar infantil

Inquietud y bienestar infantil

Autor: Judy Dunn

Número de Páginas: 172

El tema de la inquietud y el bienestar infantil conduce a un amplio campo de nuevas polémicas: los orígenes de las diferencias temperamentales entre los niños y los efectos de éstas en los padres, la importancia de las relaciones tempranas entre madre e hijo para el desarrollo de sus facultades, los comienzos de la conducta intencional y las diferencias entre los distintos grupos culturales en la educación infantil. El propósito de este volumen, sexto de la SERIE BRUNER, es arrojar una luz sobre la interesante cuestión que subyace en las variaciones de las causas de la aflicción del niño durante su primer año de vida, así como explicar la relación que existe entre estos cambios, el desarrollo de la inteligencia del bebé y la naturaleza de sus relaciones con las demás personas de su mundo.

El papel del padre

El papel del padre

Autor: Ross D. Parke

Número de Páginas: 196

Esta obra (volumen 14 de la SERIE BRUNER) se centra en un área de reflexión, relativamente nueva, relacionada con el actual panorama social que impone la participación activa de ambos padres fuera y dentro del hogar. Los psicólogos evolutivos han ignorado durante mucho tiempo la importancia del padre en el desarrollo psicológico del niño. Parecía que su papel era permanecer tras los bastidores, hasta el momento en que salía a escena, armado de toda la autoridad que sobre él depositaban la tradición y la sociedad. En la actualidad el padre no es un elemento pasivo en el desarrollo psicológico del niño y su figura es de gran importancia, no sólo en la vinculación emocional, sino en el desarrollo social, lingüístico y cognitivo. Del libro de PARKE se deriva una invitación al no absentismo del padre, a su participación activa en todo lo que significa criar y educar a un niño.

Childhood Socialization

Childhood Socialization

Autor: Gerald Handel

Número de Páginas: 422

Norman Denzin presents a social psychological account of how the lives of children are shaped by social interaction, particularly interaction with parents and other caretakers. He examines the special language of children, their socialization experiences, and the emergence of their selfconceptions— all as they occur in natural surroundings: daycare centers, homes, playgrounds, schools, and many other places. Denzin is concerned not with sequential developmental changes during childhood, but with how children themselves enter into the processes that lead to self-awareness, socialized abilities and attributes—such as pride, perceptiveness, dignity, and poise. Through his symbolic interactionist approach, Denzin shows how language—the key link between children and others—is required in everyday interpersonal relationships and how the sense of self develops as linguistic skills grow. He stresses the importance of play and games as processes by which children teach themselves about social behavior; he also shows that, for children, play takes on the seriousness of adults' work. Denzin maintains that the definitions of childhood by the 1970s had become detrimentally entrenched...

Children

Children

Autor: Alison Clarke-stewart , Joanne Barbara Koch

Número de Páginas: 570

A complete introduction to child and adolescent psychology. Includes detailed coverage of language and personality development, cognition, newborn and perceptual behavior, and all other aspects. Each chapter begins with an outline and ends with a summary, a list of key terms and concepts, and review questions.

Psychology

Psychology

Autor: Kelly Bouas Henry , Douglas Bernstein , Louis A. Penner , Edward Roy , Alison Clarke-stewart

Número de Páginas: 0

Study more effectively and improve your performance at exam time with this comprehensive guide. Written to work hand-in hand with PSYCHOLOGY, 9th Edition, this user-friendly guide includes a wide variety of learning tools to help you master the key concepts of the course.

Becoming Attached

Becoming Attached

Autor: Robert Karen

Número de Páginas: 516

In this "provocative primer on the nature versus nurture debate" ("Mirabella"), psychologist and noted journalist Robert Karen offers fresh insights into some of the most fundamental questions of emotional life. He traces the history of attachment theory through the controversial work of John Bowlby, a British psychoanalyst, and Mary Ainsworth, an American developmental psychologist, who together launched a revolution in child psychology.

Developmental Follow-Up

Developmental Follow-Up

Autor: Sarah L. Friedman , H. Carl Haywood

Número de Páginas: 431

Developmental Follow-Up: Concepts, Domains, and Methods is a compendium of papers that deals with developmental follow-up research, follow-up studies, criterion assessment variables and instruments, as well as analyses of developmental data. The book discusses the historical, theoretical, and methodological considerations in developmental follow-up strategies. Some papers review the history of developmental follow-up research from the early 1920s to the late 1980s, with some insights into future-oriented themes. The book also cites as an example the study of the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on child development. Other papers address health surveillance and child development, including early cognitive development and the contribution of peer interaction. Some papers consider the experimental design and data analysis such as those concerning planning for follow-up studies that will involve finances, time and resources, as well as the career impact for the investigator. Another paper reviews the significance of the time when children in the United States received a significant amount of care from someone who was not their mother. The book also discusses the role of the...

Difícil ser hombre

Difícil ser hombre

Autor: Norma Fuller

Número de Páginas: 171

En el Perú y en Latinoamérica vivimos actualmente un proceso de cambios económicos, políticos y sociales. Estos inciden directamente en la estructura y las dinámicas de la familia, es decir afecta la manera en que se constituyen los roles, identidades y subjetividades de sus distintos miembros. Por ello, es indispensable analizar sus repercusiones, sobre todo en la construcción de las masculinidades, su vínculo con la corporeidad y sus consecuencias en el modelo patriarcal. Difícil ser hombre. Nuevas masculinidades latinoamericanas explora el devenir de las masculinidades en distintos niveles, en diversos ámbitos y con todas sus consistencias e inconsistencias. Con un lenguaje claro y directo, este libro presenta reflexiones sobre temas de género a partir de casos concretos de nuestra región. Todos los ensayos se preguntan a dónde van las masculinidades. ¿Se trata de cambios en el sentido de una mayor equidad de género o de adaptaciones a nuevas circunstancias? En suma, nos preguntamos cómo se vive una identidad que se define como fija al mismo tiempo que como cambiante y cuestionable.

Social Influences and Socialization in Infancy

Social Influences and Socialization in Infancy

Autor: S. Feinman , Michael Lewis

Número de Páginas: 349

How are we to understand the complex forces that shape human behav ior? A variety of diverse perspectives, drawing on studies of human behavioral ontogeny, as well as humanity's evolutionary heritage, seem to provide the best likelihood of success. It is in an attempt to synthesize such potentially disparate approaches to human development into an integrated whole that we undertake this series on the genesis of beh- ior. In many respects, the incredible burgeoning of research in child development over the last two decades or so seems like a thousand lines of inquiry spreading outward in an incoherent starburst of effort. The need exists to provide, on an ongoing basis, an arena of discourse within which the threads of continuity among those diverse lines of research on human development can be woven into a fabric of meaning and under standing. Scientists, scholars, and those who attempt to translate their efforts into the practical realities of the care and guidance of infants and children are the audience that we seek to reach. Each requires the oppor tunity to see-to the degree that our knowledge in given areas per mits-various aspects of development in a coherent, integrated...

Mother Jones Magazine

Mother Jones Magazine

Número de Páginas: 60

Mother Jones is an award-winning national magazine widely respected for its groundbreaking investigative reporting and coverage of sustainability and environmental issues.

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

Autor: National Library Of Medicine (u.s.)

Número de Páginas: 1256

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

The Power of Mother Love

The Power of Mother Love

Autor: Brenda Hunter

Número de Páginas: 289

The Power of Mother Love highlights the incredible--although sometimes unrealized--influence that a mother has on her children and her society. Decades of scientific and psychological study provide overwhelming evidence for the idea that "mother love" has an enormous, permanent impact in shaping the character and life of a child. In her compelling new work, psychologist Brenda Hunter presents a convincing argument that indicates this love is even more powerful, even more far-reaching than our culture has yet realized , not only for the child, but for the mother and society as a whole. Affirming the immeasurable value of the mothering role while realistically addressing women 's greatest questions and concerns, Hunter clearly reveals how mother love positively affects the way a woman defines herself. All mothers, and all those who care about the lives of women, children, and the future of our society will be dramatically impacted by this not-to-be-missed book, skillfully written to empower women to mother from the heart.

Getting to 50/50

Getting to 50/50

Autor: Sharon Meers , Joanna Strober

Número de Páginas: 300

Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers. They understand the challenges and rewards of two-career households. They also know that families thrive not in spite of working mothers but because of them. You can have a great career, a great marriage, and be a great mother. The key is tapping into your best resource and most powerful ally—the man you married. After interviewing hundreds of parents and employers, surveying more than a thousand working mothers, and combing through the latest government and social science research, the authors have discovered that kids, husbands, and wives all reap huge benefits when couples commit to share equally as breadwinners and caregivers. Mothers work without guilt, fathers bond with their kids, and children blossom with the attention of two involved parents. The starting point? An attitude shift that puts you on the road to 50/50—plus the positive step-by-step advice in this book. From “baby boot camp” for new dads to exactly what to say when negotiating a leave with the boss, this savvy book offers fresh ideas to today’s families offering encouragement, hope, and confidence to any woman who has ever...

Mothers and Others

Mothers and Others

Autor: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Número de Páginas: 433

Sarah Hrdy argues that if human babies were to survive in a world of scarce resources, they would need to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends—and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, says Hrdy, came the human capacity for understanding others.

Fatherhood

Fatherhood

Autor: Ross D. Parke

Número de Páginas: 340

In this new book, Parke considers the father-child relationship within the "family system" and the wider society. Using the "life course" view of fathers, he demonstrates that men enact their fatherhood in a variety of ways in response to their particular social and cultural circumstances.

Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Third Edition

Psychological Evaluations for the Courts, Third Edition

Autor: Gary B. Melton , John Petrila , Norman G. Poythress , Christopher Slobogin

Número de Páginas: 959

This is the definitive reference and text for both mental health and legal professionals. The authors offer a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the legal and clinical contexts of forensic assessment, along with best-practice guidelines for participating effectively and ethically in a wide range of criminal and civil proceedings. Presented are findings, instruments, and procedures related to criminal and civil competencies, civil commitment, sentencing, personal injury claims, antidiscrimination laws, child custody, juvenile justice, and more.

I'll Be The Parent, You Be The Kid

I'll Be The Parent, You Be The Kid

Autor: Paul Kropp

Número de Páginas: 306

I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Kid offers the insights parents really need to handle today's controversial parenting challenges. With the many parenting books available today, it's not surprising many parents are confused by the wide range of methods, styles and quick-fix solutions being suggested. In I'll Be the Parent, You Be the Kid Paul Kropp considers the most difficult issues in parenting using real-life scenarios and offers firm opinions based on the latest research. Drawing on his own experience as an educator and parent, his talks with hundreds of Canadian families and 40 years of reliable parenting research, Paul Kropp tackles such tough topics as: discipline and spanking sibling rivalry -- what's "normal"? how much daycare is good daycare? the impact of television on kids and families the myth of quality time.

The Afterlife Is Where We Come From

The Afterlife Is Where We Come From

Autor: Alma Gottlieb

Número de Páginas: 444

When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way the Beng rear their children? In this unique and engaging ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb explores how religious ideology affects every aspect of Beng childrearing practices—from bathing infants to protecting them from disease to teaching them how to crawl and walk—and how widespread poverty limits these practices. A mother of two, Gottlieb includes moving discussions of how her experiences among the Beng changed the way she saw her own parenting. Throughout the book she also draws telling comparisons between Beng and Euro-American parenting, bringing home just how deeply culture matters to the way we all rear our children. All parents and anyone interested in the place of culture in the lives of infants, and vice versa, will enjoy The Afterlife Is Where We Come From. "This wonderfully reflective text should provide the impetus for formulating research possibilities about...

Family Leave Policy: The Political Economy of Work and Family in America

Family Leave Policy: The Political Economy of Work and Family in America

Autor: Steven K. Wisensale

Número de Páginas: 312

Written in an accessible, case study format, this groundbreaking work explores the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of family leave policy in the United States, from its beginnings at the state level in the early 1980s, through the adoption of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and beyond to the present day. With a political economy perspective, the book identifies the major economic and social forces affecting both the family and the workplace. And drawing on original primary research, it examines how the political system has responded to this evolving issue with various policy initiatives.

L'Accueil du jeune enfant : politiques et recherches dans les différents pays

L'Accueil du jeune enfant : politiques et recherches dans les différents pays

Número de Páginas: 278

Présente les données les plus actuelles des diverses politiques de la maternité et de l'éducation préscolaire aux Etats-Unis, dans les pays de l'Est, en Europe occidentale et en Scandinavie. Donne les recherches les plus récentes dans le domaine de la psychologie et de la santé mentale des très jeunes enfants. « Copyright Electre »

The Way We Never Were

The Way We Never Were

Autor: Stephanie Coontz

Número de Páginas: 361

The definitive edition of the classic, myth-shattering history of the American family Leave It to Beaver was not a documentary, a man's home has never been his castle, the "male breadwinner marriage" is the least traditional family in history, and rape and sexual assault were far higher in the 1970s than they are today. In The Way We Never Were, acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz examines two centuries of the American family, sweeping away misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about domestic life. The 1950s do not present a workable model of how to conduct our personal lives today, Coontz argues, and neither does any other era from our cultural past. This revised edition includes a new introduction and epilogue, exploring how the clash between growing gender equality and rising economic inequality is reshaping family life, marriage, and male-female relationships in our modern era. More relevant than ever, The Way We Never Were is a potent corrective to dangerous nostalgia for an American tradition that never really existed.

Growing Up in a Changing Society

Growing Up in a Changing Society

Autor: Ronnie Carr , Paul Light , Martin Woodhead

Número de Páginas: 343

The final reader in the Child Development in Social Context series shows how the study of child development is inevitably bound up in more ephemeral cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children and in the educational practices that rise from these ideas. Some readings point to the dangers which can arise from the meeting of science and cultural values, using for illustration studies of the role of psychological theory in reinforcing social attitudes to child care inside and outside the family. Other readings look at children's initiation into that relatively recent cultural invention, the school, and the relationship with their learning at home. There are studies of their social development in classroom and playground, with particular emphasis on ethnic relationships.

Child Care in the 1990s

Child Care in the 1990s

Autor: Alan Booth

Número de Páginas: 256

Bringing together professionals from sociology, economics, psychology, and family studies, this volume presents papers from a symposium on child care that sought answers to each of the four questions listed in the table of contents. A lead speaker provided an answer, and discussants had a chance to critique the main presentation and set forth their own views. Each session also included a policy person to deal with issues from an applied perspective. The lead papers, review papers, and rejoinders constitute the contents of this volume. Interdisciplinary in scope, it deals with the central issue in a systematic way and attempts to present divergent points of view on each question. As such, it provides the reader with current information and a review of issues intended to provoke new ways of thinking about child care.

Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony

Inaccuracies in Children's Testimony

Autor: Letitia C Pallone , Jon'a F Meyer

Número de Páginas: 177

Inaccuracies in Children’s Testimony combines the literature on obedience to authority with that on suggestibility to create a third literature. This book examines children’s testimony from several perspectives and gives you insightful suggestions for increasing children’s abilities to testify accurately about traumatic things that have happened to them. In doing so, you’ll learn how to ensure that those who abuse or sexually exploit children are brought to justice while those falsely accused are adequately protected. How children are questioned to learn what they have witnessed is crucial due to the effects the questioning sessions may have on their testimonies--improper questioning may lead to inaccurate answers. This is just one of the many areas of children’s testimony covered in Inaccuracies in Children’s Testimony. In each of the chapters you’ll discover new ways for increasing the accuracy and dependability of children’s testimony as you read about: factors that affect children’s testimonies suggestibility--definition and research, including sources of suggestibility how obedience to authority can explain children’s behavior as witnesses children’s...

Understanding Children and Childhood

Understanding Children and Childhood

Autor: Anne B. Smith

Número de Páginas: 417

Emphasising the voices and rights of children, international expert Anne Smith examines the latest thinking on children’s learning and development. Contemporary theories and research about children and childhood are explained, using observations from children’s everyday experiences and debates about policy. A sociocultural perspective presents development as driven by a child’s learning, supported by opportunities for reciprocal social interaction across diverse cultural contexts.

The Developing Individual in a Changing World, Volume II

The Developing Individual in a Changing World, Volume II

Autor: Klaus F. Riegel , John A. Meacham

Número de Páginas: 372

This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, developmental psychologists have been studying individuals as if they developed in a sociocultural vacuum. As psychologists began to study the individual's development more broadly, they considered the impact of a number of other factors in the physical and social environment: early education, sociocultural differences, mass communication, alternative living arrangements, and medical care--to name but a few. Volume I, Historical and Cultural Issues, examines the problems of behavioral development from historical, political, theoretical, and cultural points of view. A number of content areas already familiar to developmental psychologists are discussed: Piaget's theory, perceptual development, socialization, and language acquisition. In addition, topics relatively unfamiliar to American psychologists are included: the contribution of early European developmentalists such as William and Clara Stern, Alfred Binet, and Eduard Spranger; and an introduction to recent Soviet developmental theory. Volume II, Social and Environmental Issues, considers the effects of changes in...

The Developing Individual in a Changing World

The Developing Individual in a Changing World

Autor: Georgy Gounev

Número de Páginas: 368

This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, developmental psychologists have been studying individuals as if they developed in a sociocultural vacuum. As psychologists began to study the individual's development more broadly, they considered the impact of a number of other factors in the physical and social environment: early education, sociocultural differences, mass communication, alternative living arrangements, and medical care--to name but a few.Volume I, Historical and Cultural Issues, examines the problems of behavioral development from historical, political, theoretical, and cultural points of view. A number of content areas already familiar to developmental psychologists are discussed: Piaget's theory, perceptual development, socialization, and language acquisition. In addition, topics relatively unfamiliar to American psychologists are included: the contribution of early European developmentalists such as William and Clara Stern, Alfred Binet, and Eduard Spranger; and an introduction to recent Soviet developmental theory.Volume II, Social and Environmental Issues, considers the effects of changes in...

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