Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I: INVESTIGATING CHARACTER FOCALIZATION IN CHILDREN’S NOVELS -- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Character Focalization -- Chapter 3: Focalizing Structures -- Chapter 4: Character Focalization Selection and Development -- PART II: PERCEPTUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 5: Perceptual Facet Developments: Seeing and Hearing Experiences -- Chapter 6: Psychol…
Why Arnheim? Why Gestalt? -- Arnheim and Different Approaches to the Psychology of Art -- Expression, Symbolism and Visual Thinking -- The Senses, Perceptual Objects and Their Dynamics -- The Notorious Gestalt Brain Model -- The Dynamics of Pictorial, Sculptural and Architectural Form -- The Dynamics of Pantomimic Form -- The Dynamics of Musical Form -- The Dynamics of Poetic Form -- Art in Com…
Risk Behavior in Adolescence -- The Study -- Psychoactive Substance Use -- Risk-Taking Behavior and Risky Driving -- Antisocial Behavior -- Sexual Behavior, Contraception, and AIDS -- Disturbed Eating -- Prevention: What Can We Do?.The volume gives a substantial contribution to the understanding of adolescent risk behaviors, informative and useful for both scientist and practitioner. The chapte…
What is Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment? -- Theoretical Frameworks Conceptualizing Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment -- Summary of Research on Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment -- Risk Factors Associated with Intergenerational Child Maltreatment -- Interrupting Intergenerational Transmission of Child Maltreatment: Protective Factors Ass…
Preface -- 1. Introduction to the book -- 2. Interactional expertise -- 3. Grounded cognition -- 4. Concrete and ‘abstract’ knowledge -- 5. Derived embodiment and interactional expertise -- 6. Mental applications -- 7. Educational implications -- 8. Issues to consider -- References.How does knowledge of phenomena and events we have no direct experiences of emerge? Having a brain that learns…
I. Child Maltreatment and Family Processes -- The Web of Violence: The Role of Families in Vulnerability & Protection across the Span of Childhood -- Creating a Safe Haven: The Complicated Nature of Social Support in Fostering Resilience among Survivors of Child Maltreatment -- "Why didn't you tell?" Helping Families and Children Weather the Process of a Sexual Abuse Disclosure -- A Population-…
Part I: Aspects related to children’s well-being -- Chapter 1. Advances on Socio-Community Well-Being (Jorge C. Sarriera) -- Chapter 2. Spirituality and children and adolescents well-being: theoretical and empirical approach (Miriam R.W. Strelhow) -- Chapter 3. Well-being of children in residential care centers (Fabiane F. Schutz) -- Chapter 4. Use of software to improve child maltreatment de…
PART I: TYPICAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL CHILDREN -- Typical Language development of monolingual Spanish-speaking children by Sonia Mariscal & Alejandra Auza Benavides -- Language development in bilingual Spanish-Catalan children with and without Specific Language Impairment: A longitudinal perspective by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucia Buil-Legaz, Raül López-Penadés &…
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. …
Part I: Frameworks and Integrative Approaches -- Chapter 1: Bridging the Gap: Theory and research in social gerontology- Tannistha Samanta -- Chapter 2: Who will care for the elder caregiver?: Outlining theoretical approaches and future research questions - Subharati Ghosh, Benjamin Capistrant and Greta Friedemann-Sanchez -- Chapter 3: Social Psychology and Gerontology: Integrating theory to ex…