Binding: Paperback
Description: This new edition of From Birth to Sixteen outlines children's physical social emotional and cognitive development from infancy through to adolescence. In both its practical application of research and its contribution to the assessment of child development this text provides essential reading for students and practitioners in nursing health visiting play work youth work early years education teaching social work and occupational therapy. This innovative and broad - ranging text is accessible and engaging with case studies tables and references to relevant studies making links to professional practice throughout. Taking into account the diversity of ways in which children develop including considerations of gender ethnicity social background disability and resilience it presents developmental models for the years from birth to sixteen under each of the following themes: children's rights and responsibilities relationships in the family relationships in day care at school and with the peer group language and communication children and the media health and physical development mental health. This fully updated new edition offers additional content on topics such as attachment theory the neuroscience of the brain sleep patterns multi - lingualism in childhood disability making the transition to young adulthood and impact of war and other forms of adversity on emotional health and well - being. A companion website offers additional teaching and learning resources for students and lecturers. From the foundations of the subject through to its application in practice From Birth to Sixteen provides an indispensable companion for those studying child development or working with children.
Title: From Birth To Sixteen Children's Health Social Emotional And Linguistic Development
Author(s): Cowie Helen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9780815379812
Pages: 206 Pages, 1 Tables, Black And White; 4 Line Drawings, Black And White; 3 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 2/1/2019
Category: Health & Personal Development