Influencing Children's Development

by Bancroft, Dennis; Carr, Ronnie

• ISBN13: 9780631194224
• ISBN10: 0631194223
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-11-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

How can psychologists contribute to the development and well-being of children in practical ways? Do the practicalities of psychological work with children in clinical, educational and legal settings allow us to evaluate competing psychological explanations? Dealing in turn with a range of issues in applied developmental psychology, the contributors to Influencing Children's Development examine the impact of psychological research in contributing to strategies of interventions, as well as to the understanding of some of the conditions of childhood. The topics covered include some where development is affected by sensory or intellectual impairments and others, as for example in education, where the lives of the great majority of children have been influenced by the work of psychologists. In presenting these topics as a collection, this book provides the opportunity to identify the impact of the most influential psychological perspectives over a wide range of specific services for children.

Author Biography

Dennis Bancroft and Ronnie Carr are the authors of Influencing Children's Development, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Issues And Applications	1	(32)
Peter Barnes
Dennis Bancroft
Teaching And Learning	33	(44)
Dorothy Faulkner
Children And Computers	77	(38)
Karen Littleton
Children As Witnesses	115	(36)
Ray Bull
Peter Barnes
Language Impairment And Dyslexia	151	(34)
Dennis Bancroft
Psychology And Deafness	185	(40)
Susan Gregory
Psychological Intervention: Down's Syndrome And Autism	225	(52)
Dorothy Faulkner
Vicky Lewis
Child Therapies	277	(37)
John Oates
Masud Hoghughi
Rudi Dallos
Acknowledgements	314	(3)
Name Index	317	(1)
Subject Index	317