Child Psychology

Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues is the only handbook to comprehensively cover infant through adolescent development within one volume. It uniquely represents the current state of the field by showcasing the most cutting-edge empirical research of leading developmental scientists from around the globe.
The incredible depth and breadth within one concise package makes Child Psychology an invaluable and practical resource for researchers, advanced undergraduates and graduate students of developmental science and human development.

Lawrence Balter is Professor Emeritus at New York University where he taught developmental psychology, child psychopathology, and diagnostic psychological assessment. Balter created study abroad initiatives in developmental psychology at the Piaget Archives at the University of Geneva, NYU in Prague, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a recipient of a Professor of the Year award at NYU. Balter is an internationally renowned parenting expert who has appeared regularly in the electronic media, has published books for parents and children, and was a columnist for numerous trade magazines. He received the Distinguished Lifetime Contribution award from APA's Division of Media Psychology. He serves on the Advisory Board of The Future of Children, a joint publication of Princeton University and the Brookings Institution and is a Consulting Editor at NAEYC's Young Children. Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda is Professor of Developmental Psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She studies intersections among children's emerging skills in language, communication, motor and social domains across the first years of life. Her research is focused on the socio- cultural contexts of early development, especially the ways that infant-parent language interactions and everyday parenting practices affect children's developmental trajectories across cultural communities within the U.S. and internationally.

Part I: Infancy 1. A Biopsychosocial Model of Self-Regulation in Infancy Susan D. Calkins, Nicole B. Perry and Jessica M. Dollar 2. Parental Sensitivity and Infant Attachment, Esther M. Leerkes, Lindsey Gedaly and Jinni Su 3. Language Acquisition: From Words to World and Back Again Amy Pace, Dani F. Levine, Giovanna Morini, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff 4. Establishing Cognitive Organization in Infancy: From Perceptual Grouping of Objects to Social Classification of Faces, Paul C. Quinn 5. Infant Origins of Social Cognition Sheila Krogh-Jespersen and Amanda Woodward Part II: Childhood 6. Self-Regulation in Early Childhood: Theory and Measurement Michael J. Sulik, M. Paula Daneri, Alyssa I. Pintar, and Clancy Blair 7. Sibling and Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Amanda Aldercotte, Naomi White and Claire Hughes 8. Objects, Conversations, and Young Children's Learning about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) David H. Uttal, Catherine A. Haden, Maria Marcus and Erin A. Jant 9. Children's Dynamic Gender Identities: Cognition, Context, and Culture May Ling Halim, Kristina M. Zosuls, Diane N. Ruble, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Seunghee Amy Baeg, Abigail Walsh, and Keith H. Moy 10. Emotion-Related Self-Regulation, and Children's Social, Psychological, and Academic Functioning Nancy Eisenberg, Tracy L. Spinrad, and Carlos Valiente Part III: Adolescence 11. Peer Relationships in Cultural Context Erika Y. Niwa, Leoandra Onnie Rogers and Niobe Way 12. Adolescent Decision Making and Risk Taking Natasha Duell, Grace Icenogle and Laurence Steinberg 13. Morality, Context, and Development Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Aline Hitti, Judith G. Smetana, and Melanie Killen 14. Ethnic-Racial Identity: Conceptualization, Development, and Youth Adjustment Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor 15. Social Aggression and Digital Communication in Adolescence Marion K. Underwood and Samuel E. Ehrenreich Part IV: Ecological Influences 16. Family Systems Children's Social Development Jenessa L. Malin, Natasha J. Cabrera, Elizabeth Karberg, and Katrina Taschman 17. Neighborhood Context and Child Development Elizabeth A. Shuey, Tama Leventhal, Margaret Elliott and Veronique Dupéré 18. Egalitarian Socialization in Ethnically Diverse Families: Liberty and Justice for All Diane L. Hughes, Juan Del Toro and Jason R.D. Rarick 19. Risk and Resilience in Child Development Ann S. Masten and Madelyn H. Labella 20. Digital Game Features and Play Contexts: Impact on Learning and Development Daphne Bavelier and Lori M. Takeuchi 21. Money, Time, and Peers in Antipoverty Programs Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Ana María Nieto, Teresa Eckrich Sommer, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Thomas S. Weisner and Owen Senders