Child and Adolescent Psychology: Typical and Atypical Development

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development.This integration cements understanding since the same processes are involved.Knowledge about atypical development informs the understanding of typical development, and knowledge about typical development is a necessary basis for understanding atypical development and working with children with disorders. Based on international research, and informed by biological, social and cultural perspectives, the book provides explanations of developmental phenomena, with a focus on how children and adolescents at different age levels actually think, feel and act.Following a structure by topic, with chronological developments within each chapter, von Tetzchner presents and contrasts the major theoretical ideas in developmental psychology and discusses their implications for different aspects of development.He also integrates information