Product Description: Distinguished authors detail cross-cultural issues affecting youngsters, including parenting practices, gender role socialization, risk and resilience in childhood, and more. The text challenges existing beliefs about childhood development, offers current research on childrearing and socialization practices in diverse cultures, and examines social and educational policies as they relate to children and adolescents...read more

Product Description: The research and theoretical contributions of international and multidisciplinary scholars have advanced our understanding of the role of play in evolution and behavior. The diverse articles in this volume range from theoretical and conceptual advances, scientific investigations, to discourse about applied issues and different dimensions of play...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The Caribbean is known more as a tropical paradise than as an area composed of diverse ethnic and political groups, the majority of whom live on the edge of poverty. This set of conceptual and empirical papers focuses on the diversity of ethnic groups in Caribbean families. The essays examine ethnic origins, social structures, family structures, and intellectual, social and clinical problems and their treatment. (view table of contents)

Product Description: For applied developmental psychologists (professionals or graduate students) provides detailed descriptions of dramatically diverse cultures, addressing the role of culture in the functioning of families and the socialization of children (and providing readers with the basis for an increased sensit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)