Product Description: Tackling some of the most important ideas in child psychology and human development, Human Resilience presents key theories from Ann and Alan Clarke's pioneering work in this field. The Clarkes discuss major interacting influences on development, including genetic and environmental effects, chance events and the tendency for people to influence their environments in ways that reinforce their personal characteristics...read more

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Studies dealing with children who have suffered some form of deprivation in their early lives challenge the long-accepted theory concerning the formative role of early experience in human development