The Development of the Ego

The Clinical Interview of the Child

Stanley I. Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

This book uses actual interviews with children to show readers how to apply a developmental, biopsychosocial framework for understanding the inner lives of children at different ages and stages. It outlines proven techniques for helping infants and children to reveal their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors during the clinical interview.

Overcoming Adhd

Helping Your Child Become Calm, Engaged, and Focused-Without a Pill

Stanley I. Greenspan

''Can children and adults with ADD and ADHD overcome their difficulties without pills? The answer is absolutely Yes' for the vast majority.... Attention involves taking in sights and sounds and touch; it involves processing information; it involves planning and executing actions based on this information. If you can learn to do these things, as children we've treated have done, you can pretty well pay attention. It's not just about sitting still.'' Overcoming ADHD applies Dr. Stanley I. Greenspan's internationally admired developmental approach to this very common disorder. In his distinctive and original view, ADHD is not a single problem, but rather a set of common symptoms that arise from several different sensory, motor, and self-regulation problems. As in his research and in his practice, Dr. Greenspan emphasizes the role of emotions in the development of the nervous system, seeking the root of the condition and rebuilding the foundations of healthy development. Overcoming ADHD steers away from the pitfalls of labeling, or of simply stamping out symptoms with medication, and demonstrates how children can confidently learn to engage with others, attend to what they see and hear, and maintain their focus on the problems at hand. Dr. Greenspan's belief in the growth and individual potential of each child shines Jacket design by Georgia A. Feldman through this indispensable work.

The Learning Tree

Overcoming Learning Disabilities from the Ground Up

Stanley I. Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

Discusses how to identify and analyze missing developmental steps that can lead to learning problems, utilizing the metaphor of a tree to examine how children perceive the world; grow socially and academically; and develop the ability to read, write, organize their work, perform mathematics, and more.

Engaging Autism

Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate, and Think

Stanley I. Greenspan, Serena Wieder

Greenspan shows that children of all ages can progress in relating, communicating, and thinking beyond what has been thought attainable."--BOOK JACKET.

Great Kids

Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life

Stanley I Greenspan

The book that will bring the sweetest words of all to a parent's ears: "What great kids you have!"

The Secure Child

Helping Our Children Feel Safe And Confident In A Changing World

Stanley I Greenspan, Stanley Greenspan

In this warmly supportive book, Dr. Stanley Greenspan offers a set of guiding principles to help parents of children-from preschoolers to teenagers-so that they feel secure in their homes, their schools, and in their community at large. He also illuminates the often subtle shifts in children's behavior that signal reaction to current stress and fears and gives parents concrete suggestions to help children handle their anxieties. The Secure Child will help families everywhere move toward the common goal of a more stable and secure future.

Driven To Distraction

Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood

Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), Drs. Hallowell and Ratey show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.

Minds on Trial

Great Cases in Law and Psychology

Charles Patrick Ewing, Joseph T. McCann

In recent years, the public has become increasingly fascinated with the criminal mind. Television series centered on courtroom trials, criminal investigations, and forensic psychology are more popular than ever. More and more people are interested in the American system of justice and the individuals who experience it firsthand. Minds on Trial: Great Cases in Law and Psychology gives you an inside view of 20 of the highest profile legal cases of the last 50 years. Drs. Ewing and McCann take you "behind the scenes" of each of these cases, some involving celebrities like Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, and Patty Hearst, and explain the impact they had on the fields of psychology and the law. Many of the cases in this book, whether involving a celebrity client or an ordinary person in an extraordinary circumstance, were determined in part by the expert testimony of a psychologist or other mental health professional. Psychology has always played a vital role in so many aspects of the American legal system, and these fascinating trials offer insight into many intriguing psychological issues. In addition to expert testimony, some of the issues discussed in this entertaining and educational book include the insanity defense, brainwashing, criminal profiling, capital punishment, child custody, juvenile delinquency, and false confessions. In Minds on Trial, the authors skillfully convey the psychological and legal drama of each case, while providing important and fresh professional insights. Mental health and legal professionals, as well as others with an interest in psychology and the law will have a hard time putting this scholarly, yet readable book down.

Handbook of Intelligence

Robert J. Sternberg

Not since the landmark publication of Handbook of Human Intelligence in 1982 has the field of intelligence been more alive than it is today. Spurred by the new developments in this rapidly expanding field, Dr Sternberg has brought together a stellar list of contributors to provide a comprehensive, broad and deeply thematic review of intelligence that will be accessible to both scholar and student. The field of intelligence is lively on many fronts, and this volume provides full coverage on topics such as behavior-genetic models, evolutionary models, cognitive models, emotional intelligence, practical intelligence, and group difference. Handbook of Intelligence is largely expanded, covering areas such as animal and artificial intelligence, as well as human intelligence. It fully reflects important theoretical progress made since the early 1980s.

Situated Learning

Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger

In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities, identities, artefacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups.

Blaming the Victim

William Ryan

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Collective Imaginings

Spinoza, Past and Present

Moira Gatens, Genevieve Lloyd

Collective Imaginings draws on recent re-assessments of the philosophy of Spinoza to develop new ways of conceptualising issues of freedom and difference.

Personality Theory, Moral Development, and Criminal Behavior

William S. Laufer, James M. Day

The articles in this collection discuss how psychological forces interact with our larger enviornment and contribute to crininality.

Theories of Cognitive Development: Implications for the Mentally Retarded

Robert M. Allen, Arnold D. Cortazzo, Richard P. Toister

TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1. Why retarded children do not perform up to the level of their ability / E. Zigler. 2. The transactional approach in cognitive development: tasks for the teacher / A. D. Cortazzo. 3. Border-line retardation in low and middle income adolescents / D. Elkind. 4. Cognitive development - a means for maturation and measurement / R. M. Allen and B. J. Schwartz. 5. Psychological assessment, developmental plasticity, and heredity, with implications for early education / J. McV. Hunt. 6. Some applied and theoretical implications of behavior technology for mental retardation / R. P. Toister.

Handbook of Child Psychology, Social, Emotional, and Personality Development

William Damon, Richard M. Lerner, Nancy Eisenberg

Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that 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 Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. Volume 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development, edited by Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University, covers mechanisms of socialization and personality development, including parent/child relationships, peer relationships, emotional development, gender role acquisition, pro-social and anti-social development, motivation, achievement, social cognition, and moral reasoning, plus a new chapter on adolescent development.

Piagetian Theory and Its Implications for the Helping Professions

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Handbook of Identity Theory and Research

Seth J. Schwartz, Koen Luyckx, Vivian L. Vignoles

Identity is one of the most extensively studied constructs in the social sciences. Yet, despite the wealth of findings across many disciplines, identity researchers remain divided over such enduring fundamental questions as: What exactly is identity, and how do identity processes function? Do people have a single identity or multiple identities? Is identity individually or collectively oriented? Personally or socially constructed? Stable or constantly in flux? The Handbook of Identity Theory and Research offers the rare opportunity to address the questions and reconcile these seeming contradictions, bringing unity and clarity to a diverse and fragmented literature. This exhaustive reference work emphasizes the depth and complexity of identity processes and domains and presents perspectives from many different theoretical schools and empirical approaches. Contributing authors provide perspectives from psychology (e.g., narrative, social identity theory, neo-Eriksonian) and from other disciplines (e.g., sociology, political science, ethnic studies); and the editors highlight the links between chapters that provide complementary insights on related subjects. In addition to covering identity processes and categories that are well-known to the field, the Handbook tackles many emerging issues, including: - Identity development among adopted persons. - Identity processes in interpersonal relationships. - Effects of globalization on cultural identity. - Transgender experience and identity. - Consumer identity and shopping behavior. - Social identity processes in xenophobia and genocide. The Handbook of Identity Theory and Research lends itself to a wealth of uses by scholars, clinicians, and graduate students across many disciplines, including social, developmental, and child/school psychology; human development and family studies; sociology; cultural anthropology; gender, ethnic, and communication studies; education; and counseling.

Emotional Regulation and Human Flourishing: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Claudia Navarini, Blaine Fowers, Juan Andrés Mercado , Angelo Panno, Pía Valenzuela

Several authors —i. e. Scheler, Arnold, Goldie, Keltner and Ekman— agree that traditionally, in the history of Western thought, emotions have been seen as enemies of rationality and disruptive of cooperative social relations. However, emotions guide our perceptions of the world, our memories of the past and even our moral judgments of right and wrong, most typically in ways that enable effective responses to the current situation. For example, studies find that when we are angry, we are acutely attuned to what is unfair, which helps animate actions that remedy injustice. Emotions structure (not just colour) diverse social interactions such as attachment between parents and children, flirtations, and negotiations between rivals. Thus, emotions organize — rather than disrupt — rational thinking. According to Arnold, positive or negative, we need to deal with emotions. We need to think about them and what they tell us. As Williams poses, the moral significance of emotions reveals how fact and value come together in the moral agent. Human beings’ capacity for ethics arises from the intersection between reason and emotion.