THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO Child & Adolescent Psychology pdf

Contents

Part I: DISCOVERING CHILDHOOD

1. Pioneers and New Perspectives

  • The Birth of a New Science
  • The First Child Psychologists
  • The Psychodynamics of Childhood
  • The Learning Theorists
  • How Thinking Changes
  • Building On the Big Four Theorists

2. Researching Child Behavior

  • The Scientific Method
  • If A, Then B?
  • The Body Speaks
  • Correlating and Computing
  • Measuring Cause and Effect
  • Designs and Timelines
  • Cross-Cultural Design
  • Ethics of Research on Children
  • Making Interpretations

Part II: FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY

3. Nature and Nurture

  • The Biology of Heredity
  • How You Become “You”
  • What Genes Do
  • Is Heredity Destiny?
  • Children’s Genetic Disorders
  • Behavioral Genetics
  •  Nature and Nurture at Work
  • Neuroscience and Child Psychology
  • How Plastic Is a Child’s Brain?

4.  Attachment Theory

  • Theory and Practice
  • The Rhesus Monkey Experiments
  • Making a Secure Attachment
  • Chemistry of Maternal Attachment
  • Attachment Styles
  • The Strange Situation Experiment
  • Obstacles to Attachment
  • Is Early Attachment Destiny?
  • Attachment and Working Mothers

Part III: A CHILD IS PART OF A FAMILY

5. The Parent-Child Relationship

  • Attachment Parenting
  • Measuring Parental Competency
  • The “Good-Enough” Parent
  • Family as a Social System
  • The Irreducible Needs of Children
  • Sibling Relationships
  • Children of Divorce
  • Children in Nontraditional Families

6. Authority and Discipline

  • The Study That Changed Everything
  • A Longer-Term View
  • The Authoritative Parent
  • Appropriate Discipline
  • How Children Affect Parents’ Behaviors
  •  Where Self-Discipline Comes From
  • What Works, What Doesn’t

Part IV: THE BIG PICTURE

7. A Child’s Emotional Development

  • Love as Brain Food
  • Emotional Competence: How It Develops
  • Self-Esteem
  • Conditional vs. Unconditional Love
  • Emotional Resiliency: Can It Be Taught?
  • The Science of Happiness

8. A Child’s Moral Development

  • The Evidence of Morality in Babies
  • Theories of Moral Development
  • To Lend a Helping Hand
  • The Role of Emotions
  • Moral Thoughts = Moral Behaviors?
  • Aggression in Children
  • Why Are Sotne Kids Mean?
  • Kindness on the College Campus

9. A Child’s Cognitive Development

  • Major Cognitive Stages
  • What Children Think About Thinking
  • Social-Cultural Perspective
  • Child’s Mind as a Computer
  • Paying Attention
  • What We Know About Memory
  • The Language We Sneak
  • Bilingualism

Part V: AGES AND STAGES

10. Prenatal Influences on the Developing Brain

  • Nine Months—Turning Points
  • Environmental Risks
  • Mother’s Health, Baby’s Risks
  • Maternal Hormones, Emotions, and Stress
  • Alcohol and Nicotine Exposure
  • Other Known Teratogens
  • Unlikely, Low, or Unknown Fetal Risks
  • The Drama and Trauma of Childbirth

11. Birth to 18 Months—Making Sense of Their World

  • Baby’s First Appearance
  • Assessing the Newborn
  • Asleep, Awake, and In Between
  • What Is Temperament?
  • Sensory Learning Begins
  • A Super Sense of Smell
  • How Sweet the Taste
  • Touch Me, Touch You
  • Baby Talk and Other Sounds
  • What a Baby Sees
  • Emotional Learning Begins
  • Emotions and Learning

12. 18 Months to 3 Years— Language and Identity

  • I Want to Be Me
  • The Center of the Universe
  • A Bundle of Contradictions
  • I Am Girl, I Am Boy
  • A Critical Period for Language
  • Language and the Toddler Brain
  • The Pragmatics of Language
  • Speech and Sociability
  • Language Milestones

13. 3 to 6 Years—A Social Being

  • Developing a Self-Identity
  • What Can I Do?
  • Cognitive Milestones
  • A Peek at the Preschool Brain
  • The Work of Play
  • Fun and Purpose in Pretending
  • Preschool Friendships
  • Gender Identities Take Hold
  • Lagging Timetables

14. 6 to 12 Years—The Dawn of Reason

  • Hail the Concrete!
  • I Am What I Learn
  • The School-Age Brain
  • Defining Intelligence
  • What Is IQ?
  • Assessing IQ
  • The Gifted Child

15.  12 to 18 Years—An Independent Identity

  • Ask It Again: Who Am I?
  • Inside the Teen Brain
  • What Was He Thinking?
  • Hormonal Onslaught
  • Girls First
  • Becoming a Man
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Roadblocks in Adolescence
  • The Addicted Teenager
  • Choosing a Career

Part VI. ISSUES IN CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

16. Children’s Mental Disorders

  • Classifying Mental Illness
  • The Depressed Child
  • Treating the Depressed Child
  • Common Childhood Anxiety Disorders
  • Phobias
  • Panic Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • A Tour of the Brain with OCD
  • Treatment of Anxiety Disorders
  • Major Psychiatric Disorders in Children
  • Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD)
  • Suicide and Teens
  • Conduct Disorders
  • Children’s Mental Disorders—Multiple Causes
  • Researching the Causes of Childhood Mental Disorders
  • Environmental Triggers

17. Children’s Learning Disorders

  • Language and Speech Disorders
  • Causes of Speech and Language Difficulties
  • Learning Disorders
  • Causes of Learning Disorders
  • Reading Disorders
  • Writing Disorder
  • Mathematics Disorder
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

18.  The Abused or Neglected Child

  • Facts and Fictions of Child Abuse
  • Warning Signs of Child Abuse
  • Effects on the Developing Brain
  • Cognitive Impairments
  • Social-Emotional Impairments
  • When Children Witness Domestic Violence
  • A Psychosocial Profile of Abusers
  • The Science of Recovery
  • Long-Term Recovery and Prevention

19. The Digital Child

  • Plugged-In Kids
  • The Violence Question
  • A Child’s Online World
  • The Unplugged Child

Part VII: THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES IN CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

20. Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents

  • When the Patient Is a Child
  • A Freudian Legacy
  • Changing Behavior
  • Current Approaches and Methods
  • Does Psychotherapy Work?

21. Family Therapy

  • Stages of Family Life
  • Interacting Stages
  • Ancient Art, New Science
  • The Family System
  • It’s All Stress
  • Family Therapy Theory and Practice
  • Family Therapy with an Eye on the Past
  • Family Therapy with an Eye on the Present
  • Family Therapy with an Eye on Changing Behavior
  • More Grist for the Mil

22.  Psychology of the Whole Child

  • A Child Is Part of a Community
  • A Missing Alodel of Character
  • Juvenile Ageism
  • A Holistic Philosophy of Children’s Needs
  • Implications for Children and Families

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