Welcome

Welcome to the companion website for Child and Adolescent Psychology: Typical and atypical development. This accessible textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to human development based on international research and informed by biological, social and cultural perspectives. It explores key topics with chronological development in each chapter, with a focus on how children and adolescents of different ages actually think, feel and act.

It presents and contrasts major theoretical ideas and discusses their implications for different aspects of development. Importantly, it explains sensory, physical and cognitive disabilities as well as the main emotional and behavioral disorders and considers their developmental consequences.

What you will find on this website

A hugely impressive achievement, offering a broad panoply of understandings of development from a wide diversity of perspectives and disciplines, spanning all the key areas, and forming a comprehensive, detailed and extremely useful text for students and practitioners alike.
Dr. Graham Music, Consultant Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic London, UK

This book provides an extensive overview of the field of developmental psychology. It illustrates how knowledge about typical and atypical development can be integrated and used to highlight fundamental processes of human growth and maturation. The author has written an accessible text which will be of value to undergraduates and postgraduates alike. I can strongly recommend it to all who are keen to learn about this fascinating and rapidly changing field.
Dr. John Coleman, PhD, OBE, UK

This book is magnificent. It is an extraordinary blend of depth of scholarship with a lucid, and engaging, writing style. Its coverage is impressive: both thorough and timely. An admirable feature of the book is its skillful presentation of typical and atypical development in each chapter. The book is comprehensive, instructive and inviting. Both new and advanced students will love the coverage of this text, will appreciate its use of headers and enjoy its illustrations.
Professor Joseph Campos, University of California, USA

An amazing achievement. Stephen von Tetzchner's volume has an encyclopedic breadth combined with an unerring eye for the central research across developmental psychology, particularly for the period of its explosive growth since the 1960s. It is remarkable for its even-handed representation of the American and European literatures. Both a text and a reference work, this will be the go-to resource for any teacher, researcher or student of the discipline for the foreseeable future.
Professor Andy Lock, University of Lisbon, Portugal