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A Practical Guide to Child Psychology Kairen Cullen

A Practical Guide to Child Psychology By Kairen Cullen

A Practical Guide to 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.

A Practical Guide to Child Psychology Summary

A Practical Guide to Child Psychology: Understand Your Kids and Enjoy Parenting by Kairen Cullen

Embrace the ups and downs of parenting.







Guided by experts in children's development, explore new approaches to parenting, understand how they can benefit your family and learn how to put them into practice straight away.







Accepting that every child is unique, and that parenting is a continuous learning process, educational psychologist and parenting expert Dr Kairen Cullen explains how best to understand your child and respond to their needs.

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.

Table of Contents

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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GOR009702019
9781785783227
178578322X
A Practical Guide to Child Psychology: Understand Your Kids and Enjoy Parenting by Kairen Cullen
Kairen Cullen
Practical Guide Series
Used - Very Good
Paperback
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2018-02-08
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