TY - BOOK AU - Damon, William, AU - Learner, Richard M. TI - Handbook of child psychology SN - 0471272884 (v. 1 : hardcover);0471272892 (v. 2 : hardcover);0471272884 (v. 3 : hardcover);0471272914 (v. 4 : hardcover);0-471-27287-6 (set : cloth) AV - BF 721 .H191 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - Hoboken, N.J. PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Child psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; v. 1. Theoretical models of human development / volume editor, Richard M. Lerner --v. 2. Cognition, perception, and language / volume editors, Deanna Kuhn, Robert Siegler -- v. 3. Social, emotional, and personality development / volume editors, Nancy Eisenberg -- v. 4. Child psychology in practice / volume editors. K. Ann Renninger, Irving E. Sigel N2 - Explores a variety of theoretical approaches, including life-span/ life-course theories, socio-culture theories, structural theories, object - relations theories, and diversity and developemntal theories. New chapters cover phenomenology and ecological system.Spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to effect the new developments in the field. Offers less experienced readers a broad understanding of the issues and also routes to particular topics. The writing style help the reader comes away with a real sense of the continuum of research to practice ER -