184 Pages
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Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1996. This landmark work, now available in a new paperback edition, present a synthesis of perspectives on child development that encompasses some of the world's leading thinkers. Still timely in its distillation of the basic concepts of Freud, Piaget, Erikson, Gesell, and others, Child Development provides a truly integrated and coherent view of the child. The text is divided... Read more
Part 1 The World of Childhood as Seen by Adults; Chapter 1 Developmental Stages; Chapter 2 Critical Periods; Chapter 3 The Neural Substrate; Chapter 4 Motor Development; Chapter 5 Psychosexual and Psychosocial Development; Chapter 6 Cognitive Development; Chapter 7 Language Development; Chapter 8 Drawing Behavior; Chapter 9 Developmental Arrest; Chapter 10 Regression; Chapter 11 Concept and Object Relations; Part 2 The World as Seen Through the Eyes of Children; Chapter 12 We Speak to Children; Chapter 13 Children Speak to Us; Chapter 14 Creativity; Chapter 15 Child Art as a Unifying Principle; Part 3 Synthesis; Chapter 16 A Developmental Perspective; Chapter 17 Integration: Correlations and Relationships; Chapter 18 A Synoptic View of Child Development;
Biography
Joseph H. Di Leo was Director of the Developmental Clinic of the New York Foundling Hospital, Assistant Clinical Professor of-Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine, and Lecturer in the Department of Special Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. He published extensively in the fields of child development, brain dysfunction, ,md children's drawings.
