Child Psychology - History
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The father of ethology and the foster mother of ducks: Konrad Lorenz as expert on motherhood.

30 May 2009 Konrad Lorenz's popularity in the United States has to be understood in the context of social concern about the mother-infant dyad after World War II. Child analysts David Levy, René Spitz, Margarethe Ribble, Therese Benedek, and John Bowlby argued ... Read more...

Separation and divergence: the untold story of James Robertson's and John Bowlby's theoretical dispute on mother-child separation.

30 Dec 2008 The work of Robertson and Bowlby is generally seen as complementary, Robertson being the practically oriented observer and Bowlby focusing on theoretical explanations for Robertson's observations. The authors add to this picture an "untold story" of ... Read more...

JCPP--The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry: a history from the inside.

30 Dec 2008 As the JCPP marks its 50th year of publication, this paper revisits the founding philosophy and traces the journey from the first issue through to the present. The history of the JCPP reflects the many changes that have come about in the fields of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Child Psychology - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The father of ethology and the foster mother of ducks: Konrad Lorenz as expert on motherhood. 30 May 2009
• Reprinted from The British Journal of Psychology (1928), 18, 276-301: La causalité chez l'enfant (Children's understanding of causality). 30 Mar 2009
• Separation and divergence: the untold story of James Robertson's and John Bowlby's theoretical dispute on mother-child separation. 30 Dec 2008
• JCPP--The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry: a history from the inside. 30 Dec 2008
• Editorial: Envisioning the future after 50 years of science and discovery. 30 Dec 2008
• Childhood and the loss of contact with reality: the prospects for democracy. 30 Dec 2008
• Loneliness in infancy: Harry Harlow, John Bowlby and issues of separation. 29 Nov 2008
• Rigorous experiments on monkey love: an account of Harry F. Harlow's role in the history of attachment theory. 29 Nov 2008
• Theories of attachment: the long and winding road to an integrative developmental science. 29 Nov 2008
• Attachment-past and present. But what about the future? 15 Sep 2008
• "When strangers meet": John Bowlby and Harry Harlow on attachment behavior. Sep 2008
• Social development: a psychobiological perspective. 30 Jul 2008
• [The rapid development of child neuropsychology] 29 Apr 2008
• In memoriam: William N. Friedrich, 1951-2005. 29 Apr 2008
• A man of his country and his time: Jewish influences on Lev Semionovich Vygotsky's world view. 30 Jan 2008
• Turning pedagogy into a science: teachers and psychologists in late imperial Russia (1897-1917). 30 Dec 2007
• From Vygotsky to Vygotskian psychology: introduction to the history of the Kharkov School. 30 Dec 2007
• Identifying the classics: an examination of articles published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology from 1976-2006. 9 Dec 2007
• [Play from prehistory to our time] 29 Sep 2007
• The discovery of southern childhoods: psychology and the transformation of schooling in the Jim Crow South. 30 Jul 2007

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Technical information about 'Child Psychology'

Definition: The study of normal and abnormal behavior of children.

Descriptor UI: D002666

Alternative terms: Child Psychology; Pediatric Psychology; Psychology, Pediatric; Psychology, Child; Psychology, Infant; Infant Psychology;

Related Mesh Headings: Child Development;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096.628.193;

Technical Notes: SPEC but also the way a normal child thinks & acts; GEN only: consider also /psychol with specific child terms (e.g., CHILD, ABANDONED /psychol, ONLY CHILD /psychol); SPEC qualif; Manual 27.11, 27.12, 34.12; check also tag CHILD or specific; DF: CHILD PSYCHOL