Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development: From Research to Practice and Policy

Narvaez, Darcia

ISBN 10: 0199755051 / ISBN 13: 9780199755059

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, 2012

About this Item

2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Editor(s): Narvaez, Darcia; Panksepp, Jaak; Schore, Allan N.; Gleason, Tracy R., Ph.D. Num Pages: 506 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMC; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 862. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development: From Research to Practice and Policy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199755051
• ISBN 13: 9780199755059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Evolution, Early Experience and Human Development asserts that human development is being misshaped by government policies, social practices, and public beliefs that fail to consider basic human needs.

About the Author

Darcia Narvaez is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on moral development through the lifespan with a particular emphasis on early life effects on the neurobiology underpinning moral functioning (triune ethics theory). Dr. Narvaez has co-authored or co-edited seven books and is editor of the Journal of Moral Education.
Jaak Panksepp is the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, in the Department of Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology. His work has been devoted to the analysis of neuroanatomical and neurochemical mechanisms of emotional behavior, with a focus on understanding how basic affective processes are evolutionarily organized in the brain. He is the author of Affective Neuroscience (2004) and Archaeology of the Mind (2012).


Allan N. Schore is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. His interdisciplinary studies on Regulation Theory, grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis, focus on the origin, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective implicit self. He is the author of Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self (2003) and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy (2012).

Tracy R. Gleason is the Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought in the Psychology Department at Wellesley College, where her research focuses on the development of children's understanding of their relationships with others. Dr. Gleason is also Psychological Director of the Wellesley College Child Study Center. Her work has appeared in journals such as Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Educational Psychology.