1st Edition

Modern Child Psychology

By Agatha H. Bowley Copyright 1949
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1948, Modern Child Psychology intends to give a summarised account of the most important work on child psychology back in the 1940s. A vast amount of careful research on the problems and the progress of development has been undertaken and much valuable data obtained. Agatha Bowley has attempted to outline in non-technical language the most important findings of the... Read more

Introduction Part I: Research Work in Child Psychology 1. The Biographical Method 2. The Observational Method 3. The Experimental Method 4. The Interview Method 5. The Psychometric Method 6. The Questionnaire Method References Part II: Results: Facts Concerning the Normal Development of the Child 1. Babyhood 2. The Child in the Nursery 3. The Child in the School 4. The Young Person in Society References Part III: Charts of Normal Development Part IV: Psychoanalytic Theory and Method in Relation to Development During the First Two Years References Part V: Some Applications of Child Psychology 1. A School Psychological Service- The School and the Child 2. The War and the Child References

Biography

Agatha H. Bowley