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| Publisher | CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Book Description | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development is an authoritative, accessible and up-to-date account of all aspects of child development. Written by an international team of leading experts, it adopts an interdisciplinary approach and covers everything from prenatal development to education, pediatrics, neuroscience, theories and research methods to physical development, social development, cognitive development, psychopathology and parenting. It also looks at cultural issues, sex differences and the history of child development. The combination of comprehensive coverage, clear, jargon-free style and user-friendly format will ensure this book is essential reading for students, researchers, health care professionals, social workers, education professionals, parents and anyone interested in the welfare of children. Features include:*Foreword by Jerome Bruner*Comprehensive coverage*Extensive glossary*Biographies of key figures*Companion website, www.cambridge.org/hopkins*Clear, user-friendly format |
| Editorial Review | ... an excellent handbook, and can be recommended to all academic libraries catering for courses in psychology, education or social care.' Reference Reviews 'The authors include many of the leading people in the field, the quality of the writing is generally high, the text is mostly free of obfuscating jargon and mangy of the chapters are very interesting as well as informative. These add up to a set of considerable strengths, and there is much of value to be found in the wide-ranging accounts of different aspects of child development.' The Times Higher Education Supplement "This interdisciplinary reference work pursues and largely realizes the ambitious objective of surverying the leading topics in contemporary academic and applied child development. Authoritatively written fromculturally diverse orientations, this bulky single volume covers, in a jargonless manner, a number of topical areas sure to be of interest to a wide-ranging leadership."--American Reference Books Annual "The impressive trio of highly prominent contributors, the succinct but detailed tone of individual entries, and the scope and breadth of coverage makes the encyclopedia a key volume, and one sure to influecne the field as a prominent reference source to researchers, clinicians, students and others for many years." PsycCritiques David C. Schwebel |
| About the Author | Brian Hopkins is Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and has published extensively in the field of developmental psychology. He is co-author of Neurobiology of Infant Vision (2003), co-editor of Motor Development in Early and Later Childhood (1993) and is editor of the journal Infant and Child Development. Ronald G. Barr is the Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health Research at the University of British Columbia and Professor of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. George F. Michel is a Professor of Psychology at University of North Carolina, Greenboro. He is co-author of two books on developmental psychobiology and Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Psychobiology (the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology), Philippe Rochat is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. In addition to numerous research articles, he is the editor of The Self in Infancy (1995); Early Social Cognition (1999), and the author of The Infant's World (2001). |
| Language | English |
| Author | Ronald G. Barr, Philippe Rochat, George F. Michel |
| Editor | Brian Hopkins |
| Publication Date | 19 Sep 2005 |
| Number of Pages | 684 |
The Cambridge Encyclopaedia Child Development hardcover english - 19 Sep 2005
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