This volume examines child development within the context of today's families, communities and culturally mixed societies. It emphasizes the continual interplay of heredity and environment, the importance of social ecologies and the developmental variations arising from cultural diversity. The authors provide a chronological coverage of ...
An important characteristic of abuse-prone families has been found to be isolation from supportive ties. This volume encourages programmes and policies to incorporate social support into abuse prevention. The author delineates the challenges and strategies involved in promoting social support; describes natural and formal social networks; analyzes ...
This book analyzes the issues surrounding divorce and its implications for public policy. The authors integrate research and policy perspectives of scholars in various disciplines to focus on the consequences of divorce for children, the parents' responsiblities after divorce, nonresidential parenting, and the effects of a high divorce rate in ...
This study guide accompanies the main text, which examines child development within the context of today's families, communities and culturally mixed societies.
Briefly stated, the study of socioemotional development concerns the intersection of emotional and social growth, and this includes an interest in how emotion is expressed in social contexts, the social elicitors of emotional expressions, the social construction of emotional experience and emotional understanding, the social ramifications of ...
The current system of protecting society's children from abuse is failing miserably. In this volume, scholars affiliated with universities and professional associations nationwide pinpoint a better strategy. Their research spotlights neighborhood-based child protection systems and provides a comprehensive approach for creating procedures that ...
Variations in childhood development are nowhere more conspicuous or important than in the development and expression of emotions. A child7;s capacity to understand another7;s feelings, to experience guilt or shame, to manipulate others emotionally, to anticipate the response of parents to displays of anger of distress, to exercise emotional ...
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