A Practical Guide to Child Psychology: Understand Your Kids and Enjoy Parenting (Practical Guide Series)

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. An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to how children think and grow. Child Psychology is a branch of developmental psychology, which is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Child psychologists examine how children's brains work even before they are born, through to the beginning of adulthood. They may explore questions of how well children develop language, how they respond to other children and adults, how quickly children become aware of their environment and become autonomous from their parents. In this Practical G Cover; Title Page; Copyright; About the author; Author's note; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Reasons Behind this Book; 2. What is a Child?; 3. What is Psychology?; 4. Applied Psychology Practice; Cognitive Theory; 5. Piaget; 6. Vygotsky; 7. Cognitivist Theory; 8. Information-Processing Theory; 9. Neuropsychology; Psychoanalytical Theory; 10. Freud; 11. Theories of Child and Parent Relationship, Including Attachment Theory; 12. Lifespan Psychology; 13. Personal Construct (Kellyian) Theory; Behaviourism; 14. Pavlov's Classical Conditioning Theory 15. Skinner's Instrumental/Operant Conditioning Theory16. Social Learning Theory; Humanism; 17. Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs; 18. Rogerian Theory; 19. Adlerian Theory; Other Important Theories; 20. Social Psychology; 21. Ecological Systems Theory; Applications of Child Psychology; 22. Assessment; 23. Therapeutic work; Final Points; 24. Parenting and Caring; 25. Summary; References