Child development: a practitioner's guide
This widely used professional development resource and course text provides an engaging overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The author explains how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among early relationships, brain development, and the social environment. Developmental processes of infancy, toddlerhood, the preschool years, and middle childhood are described. The book shows how children in each age range typically beha…
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- Full title :Child development : a practitioner's guide / Douglas Davies.
Summary
This widely used professional development resource and course text provides an engaging overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The author explains how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among early relationships, brain development, and the social environment. Developmental processes of infancy, toddlerhood, the preschool years, and middle childhood are described. The book shows how children in each age range typically behave, think, and relate to others, and what happens when development goes awry. It demonstrates effecti.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
- Edition:3rd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Guilford Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
Notes
Previous edition: 2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 494 p.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781606239117, 1606239112
- oclc:ocn834968885
- LC Classification:HV713
- Dewey Decimal:362.7
Table of Contents
pt. I. Contexts of development: a transactional approach -- Introduction: perspectives on development -- The maturational perspective -- The transactional model of development -- Developmental pathways and intervention.
1. Attachment as a context of development -- How attachment develops -- Functions of attachment -- Patterns of attachment -- Attachment classification -- Attachment, class, and culture -- The universality of attachment -- Attachment and future development -- Parental models of attachment -- Attachment theory and family systems theory -- The attachment perspective in the assessment of young children.
2. Brain development -- Sequence of brain development -- Early brain growth: synaptogenesis and myelination -- Synaptic overproduction and pruning -- Plasticity and experience -- Bonding, attachment, and brain development -- Mirror neurons and the social brain -- Can parents build better brains? -- Risk and protective factors influencing brain development -- Stress, trauma, and brain development -- Early trauma and brain development -- Studies of institutionally deprived young children.
3. Risk and protective factors: the child, family and community contexts -- Resea…
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