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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781111003321

Titolo

A clinician's guide to normal cognitive development in childhood / / edited by Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg, Becky L. Spritz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-91479-X

1-136-91480-3

1-283-03698-3

9786613036988

0-203-84369-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SandbergElisabeth Hollister

SpritzBecky L

Disciplina

155.4/13

Soggetti

Cognition in children

Developmental psychology

Child development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Case for Children's Cognitive Development: A Clinical-Developmental Perspective; Part I: Communicating With Children; 2 Acquiring Language; 3 Communicating About Internal States; 4 General Guidelines for Talking With Children; Part II: Understanding Others' Perspectives; 5 Perspective Taking; 6 False Beliefs and the Development of Deception; Part III: Children's Memory; 7 Memory Development in Childhood; 8 Remembering; 9 Talking With Children About Past Events: Children's Memory and Suggestibility

Part IV: Developing Reason and Executive Control10 The Development of Reasoning Skills; 11 Moral Reasoning; 12 Developmental Changes in Children's Executive Functioning; Conclusion; 13 Knowing What We Know: The Developing Child and the Developing Clinician; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Clinicians and practitioners-in-training can often lose sight of the normal developmental landscape that underlies behavior, especially in the field of cognitive development. It exists in an insular bubble within



the broader field of psychology, and within each sub-domain there is a wide continuum between the anchors of atypical and optimal development. Clinicians need to learn, and to be reminded of, the unique peculiarities of developing cognitive skills in order to appreciate normal developmental phenomena.In A Clinician's Guide to Normal Cognitive Development in Childhood, </