An Introduction to Morningness-Eveningness -- Samples and Measures of Morningness-Eveningness -- Morningness-Eveningness in Adolescence -- Morningness-Eveningness and Social Adjustment -- Morningness-Eveningness and Family Interaction -- Morningness-Eveningness and School Adjustment -- Morningness-Eveningness and Patterns of Adjustment -- A Critical View of the Role of Eveningness in Developmen…
Complete mental health: An agenda for the 21st century -- and Conceptual Framework -- Positive Formation of the Self: Character, Attitudes, Spirituality, and Identity -- The Values in Action Inventory of Character Strengths for Youth -- Adolescent Spirituality -- Children’s Life Satisfaction -- Measuring Hope in Children -- The Ethnic Identity Scale -- Healthy Habits, Positive Behaviors, and …
Violence in the Schools -- Conceptualizing Violence -- A History of Violence in the Schools -- Warning Signs -- Developmental Aspects of School Violence -- Gender and Ethnicity Issues in School Violence -- Sexual Violence in the Schools -- A Transgenerational Perspective on Peace and on Violence Prevention -- Bullying and Ijime in Japanese Schools -- A Perspective on Child Abuse in the Philippi…
Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology re-examines the set of relations generally referred to as working with children and youth. It presents a series of propositions that highlight politicized strategies to working with young people under current conditions of late liberal capitalism.
This volume introduces the psychoanalyst Melanie Klein to the general field of education and traces her theories of mental life as an emotional situation, through to problems of self/other relations in our own time. The case is made for Klein’s relevance and the difficulties her theories pose to the activities of learning and pedagogical relation. Klein’s vocabulary—the paranoid/schizo…
History -- Theory -- Research Findings -- The Assessment Process -- Pscyhometric Principles and Issues -- Culture and Bias -- Practice Standards and Ethics -- The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Third Edition (WISC-III) -- Standford-Binet Fourth Edition -- Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) -- Assessment of Adolescent and Adult Intelligence -- Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cog…
This data-rich volume reviews short- and long-term consequences of residential or institutional care for children across the globe as well as approaches to reducing maltreatment. Up-to-date findings from a wide range of developing and developed countries identify forms of abuse and neglect associated with institutionalization and their effects on development and pathology in younger children, a…
Part 1: Development With a Disability -- 1. Beyond a bio-medical and social model of disability: A cultural-historical approach -- 2. Early development (infant) -- 3. Toddler – preschool -- 4. School-age -- Part 2: Developmental and Educational Themes during Early Childhood -- 5. Impairments in sensation and perception -- 6. Emotional development and mental and behavioural difficulties -- 7. …
Chapter 1. Introduction and Justification for the Book -- Chapter 2: What is Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 3. Risk Factors for Fatal Child Maltreatment -- Chapter 4. The Intersection of the Child Welfare Profession and Maltreatment Fatalities -- Chapter 5. Child Death Review Teams -- Chapter 6. State Safe Haven Laws -- Chapter 7. Criminal Justice and Legal Reforms in Response to Fatal M…