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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