Handbook of child psychology
Subtitle: Child psychology in practice
By: volume editors, K. Ann Renninger and Irving E. Sigel ; editors-in-chief, William Damon and Richard M. Lerner
Contributors: Wiley online library
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 1073
ISBN-13: 9780470050552; 9780470147658
Subjects: Developmental; PSYCHOLOGY; Child Development; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS; Child & Adolescent; Child; Child psychology; Psychotherapy
Other titles: Child psychology in practice
Description: Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. Volume 4: Child Psychology in Practice, edited by K. Ann Renninger, Swarthmore College, and Irving E. Sigel, Educational Testing Service, covers child psychology in clinical and educational practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: HANDBOOK OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; Contributors; Reviewers; Preface to Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: Child Psychology Research in Practice; Section I: Research Advances and Implications for Practice in Education; Section II: Research Advances and Implications for Clinical Applications; Section III: Research Advances and Implications for Social Policy and Social Action; Author Index; Subject Index.