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Introducing Child Psychology Kairen Cullen

Name: Introducing Child Psychology By Kairen Cullen
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Introducing Child Psychology by Kairen Cullen

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Takes insights from experts in children's development and explains how they can benefit your family. This title helps you understand your child and respond better to their needs, try out new approaches as recommended by parenting experts, and enjoy your children and learn to love the ups and downs of parenting.

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Introducing Child Psychology: A Practical Guide by Kairen Cullen

Learn to love the ups and downs of parenting.
Understand your child and respond better to their needs by following advice from parenting experts.

Accepting that every child is unique, Child Psychology offers new approaches to parenting and explains how they can benefit your family, helping you to put them into practice straight away.

Full of case studies and activities, and fresh, accessible and useful ideas, this Practical Guide will help you to guide your child through life's challenges and support their learning and development.

About Kairen Cullen

Dr Kairen Cullen is a chartered psychologist with, and a previous chair of, the Division of Educational and Child Psychology, British Psychological Society (BPS). She has written for a number of academic and educational publications including The Times Educational Supplement and 5 to 7 and Childcare magazines.

About the author iii Author's note iv INTRODUCTION 1. The reasons behind this book 1 2. What is a child? 4 3. What is psychology? 10 4. Applied psychology practice 22 COGNITIVE THEORY 5. Piaget 26 6. Vygotsky 37 7. Cognitivist Theory 46 8. Information-Processing Theory 57 9. Neuropsychology 63 PSYCHOANALYTICAL THEORY 10. Freud 67 11. Theories of child and parent relationship, including Attachment Theory 77 12. Lifespan Psychology 90 13. Personal Construct (Kellyian) Theory 99 BEHAVIOURISM 14. Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Theory 111 15. Skinner's Instrumental/Operant Conditioning Theory 116 16. Social Learning Theory 125 HUMANISM 17. Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs 133 18. Rogerian Theory 138 19. Adlerian Theory 144 OTHER IMPORTANT THEORIES 20. Social Psychology 148 21. Ecological Systems Theory 159 APPLICATIONS OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 22. Assessment 167 23. Therapeutic work 181 FINAL POINTS 24. Parenting and caring 200 25. Summary 207 References 209 Index 211

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GOR004424354

ISBN 13

9781848312586

ISBN 10

184831258X

Title

Introducing Child Psychology: A Practical Guide by Kairen Cullen

Author

Kairen Cullen

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Icon Books Ltd

Year published

2011-08-04

Number of pages

224

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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

Introducing Child Psychology Kairen Cullen

Introducing Child Psychology by Kairen Cullen

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Introducing Child Psychology Summary

Introducing Child Psychology: A Practical Guide by Kairen Cullen

About Kairen Cullen

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