| Author | : Stanley J. Ulijaszek |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 1998-08-13 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780521560467 |
A comprehensive and accessible summary of human growth and development for students and professionals alike.
| Author | : Brian Hopkins |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 993 |
| Release | : 2017-10-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 110710341X |
Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.
| Author | : Noel Cameron |
| Publisher | : Academic Press |
| Total Pages | : 625 |
| Release | : 2012-06-08 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0123838827 |
Offering a study of biological, biomedical and biocultural approaches, this book is suitable for researchers, professors and graduate students across the interdisciplinary area of human development. It is presented in the form of lectures to facilitate student programming.
| Author | : Roland C. Hauspie |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2004-06-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781139451680 |
In order to gain an understanding of the dynamics of human individual and average growth patterns it is essential that the right methods are selected. There are a variety of methods available to analyse individual growth patterns, to estimate variation in different growth measures in populations and to relate genetic and environmental factors to individual and average growth. This volume provides an overview of modern techniques for the assessment and collection of growth data and methods of analysis for individual and population growth data. The book contains the basic mathematical and statistical tools required to understand the concepts of the methods under discussion and worked examples of analyses, but it is neither a mathematical treatise, nor a recipe book for growth data analysis. Aimed at junior and senior researchers involved in the analysis of human growth data, this book will be an essential reference for anthropologists, auxologists and paediatricians.
| Author | : Urie BRONFENBRENNER |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 0674028848 |
Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world's foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child's behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to "the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time." To understand the way children actually develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it will be necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. This book offers an important blueprint for constructing such a new and ecologically valid psychology of development. The blueprint includes a complete conceptual framework for analysing the layers of the environment that have a formative influence on the child. This framework is applied to a variety of settings in which children commonly develop, ranging from the pediatric ward to daycare, school, and various family configurations. The result is a rich set of hypotheses about the developmental consequences of various types of environments. Where current research bears on these hypotheses, Bronfenbrenner marshals the data to show how an ecological theory can be tested. Where no relevant data exist, he suggests new and interesting ecological experiments that might be undertaken to resolve current unknowns. Bronfenbrenner's groundbreaking program for reform in developmental psychology is certain to be controversial. His argument flies in the face of standard psychological procedures and challenges psychology to become more relevant to the ways in which children actually develop. It is a challenge psychology can ill-afford to ignore.
| Author | : Barry Bogin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 476 |
| Release | : 1999-05-06 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780521564380 |
A revised edition of an established text on human growth and development from an anthropological and evolutionary perspective.
| Author | : Parasmani Dasgupta |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2013-03-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9401598010 |
One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and astonished me. It was from a Prof. S. R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated, as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse it himself. The data provided the astonishment; twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed longitudinal study of some 560 children, aged six months to twenty years. Most were in families with siblings also in the study, and every child was measured every time by S. R. Das himself. The archive was unique, combining the personal anthropometry of R. H. Whitehouse in the Harpenden Growth Study and the family approach of the Fels Growth Study. This was a study of which neither I, nor anyone of my acquaintance, had heard. Even in India, Prof. Das' work was scarcely known. It turned out Das was a scholarly man, quiet and unassuming, absolutely committed to his Sarsuna-Barisha Growth Study,just the obverse of the professional showman. Clearly this was not a request I could refuse, although I already had in hand enough projects to occupy Siva himself.
| Author | : Neil Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 669 |
| Release | : 2008-10-23 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0199232482 |
This text explains the principles of developmental exercise science, assessment of performance, the promotion of young people's health and well-being, and the clinical diagnosis and management of sports injuries in children and adolescents.
| Author | : Neil J. Salkind |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
| Total Pages | : 1617 |
| Release | : 2005-10-14 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1452265399 |
The field of human development focuses on the growth and development of the human being including physical, social, psychological, and emotional development. Under the broad umbrella of the term human development you find countless topics that range from charting the emotional attachment of an infant to his or her parents and its long-term effects on well-being, media violence and adolescents′ behavior, or factors moderating the natural decline in physical and mental abilities associated with aging. The Encyclopedia of Human Development is the first comprehensive, authoritative, and informative reference work that presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts from the fields of psychology, individual and family studies, and education in a way that is not too technical. With more than 600 entries, this three-volume Encyclopedia covers topics as diverse as adolescence, cognitive development, education, family, gender differences, identity, longitudinal research, personality development, prenatal development, temperament, and more. Key Features Provides cross-disciplinary coverage, with contributions from experts in the fields of psychology, education, human development and family studies, and gerontology Highlights classic studies and theories and provides brief biographies of notable researchers and theorists Takes a lifespan approach by including several "anchor essays" that cover specific phases of development such as prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, early and middle adulthood, later adulthood and aging Begins with an Introduction that details the scope, rationale, and audience for the work The cross-disciplinary field of human development is one that captures interest among and holds practical relevance for the general public as well as academia, therefore this engaging Encyclopedia will be a welcome addition to any academic or public library.
