Description: Families, communities, and societies influence children's learning and development in many ways. This is the first handbook devoted to the understanding of the nature of environments in child development. Utilizing Urie Bronfenbrenner's idea of embedded environments, this volume looks at environments from the immediate environment of the family (including fathers, siblings, grandparents, and day-care personnel) to the larger environment including schools, neighborhoods, geographic regions, countries, and cultures. Understanding these embedded environments and the ways in which they interact is necessary to understand development.
Brief description: Dr Linda Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology in the Yale Child Study Center, a department in the Yale School of Medicine. As a clinical investigator she works at the interface of three fields - pediatrics, developmental psychology and child psychiatry. Formally trained as a pediatrician and neonatologist, her work integrates perspectives from child development, behavioral neuroscience, psychophysiology, neurobiology, developmental psychopathology and neurobehavioral teratology. She is the author of nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers and more than 100 chapters and reviews. Dr Mayes is also the author of a book for parents, The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding your Child. She is also special advisor to the dean in the Yale University School of Medicine.
Review Quotes: "This book will be a force for good."
John Goodier, Reference Reviews