Exploring Best Child Development Practices in Contemporary Society - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1799829405 ISBN 13: 9781799829409

Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2020

Synopsis

Parents and teachers require a greater understanding of child development and of evidence-based research practices for how to best raise successful, emotionally intelligent, kind, and empathetic children in contemporary society. Hands-on practical advice is needed to foster such attributes during child development in order to raise happy, healthy, and successful children regardless of their backgrounds, abilities, or preferences. Exploring Best Child Development Practices in Contemporary Society is a critical scholarly publication that strengthens and optimizes parenting capacity by sharing research-based methods for a better understanding of the constructs of kindness, empathy, emotional intelligence, grit, and bullying preventive and intervention efforts and offers tools that cultivate these important qualities in today's children. Moreover, the text delves into best rearing practices for raising children with disabilities and children on the LGBTQ spectrum. Featuring a range of topics including child development, media diet, and physical development, this book is ideal for teachers, psychologists, therapists, researchers, academicians, practitioners, and students.

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About the Author

Nava R. Silton , a Developmental Psychologist, received her B.S. from Cornell University in 2002 and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University in 2009. Silton has worked at Nickelodeon and Sesame Street Workshop, and has consulted for Netflix, Disney, Apple, and the Autism Seaver Center. She appears regularly on Fox 5 News as a Psychological Correspondent. Nava is currently a Full Professor of Psychology at Marymount Manhattan College. She has written over three dozen peer-reviewed journal articles, over twenty chapters, book reviews and encyclopedia entries and has edited nine full textbooks. Her first two books discuss innovative technologies for individuals with autism and other disabilities, her third delves into creativity, her fourth into family dynamics and romantic relationships and her most recent text explores the constructs of happiness, gratitude, kindness, empathy and well-being. Moreover, Silton created the Realabilities Educational Comic Book Series Curriculum, which has been in over 30 schools across the country and The Addy & Uno Off-Broadway Musical, which ran for over 18 months at Theater Row on 42nd street in New York, NY.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1799829405
• ISBN 13: 9781799829409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305
• Editor: Silton Nava R.