This paper sets out a recent transition in our thinking in relation to psychopathology
associated with personality disorder, in an approach that integrates our thinking about …

The result of extensive scholarship and consultation with leading scholars, this text
introduces students to twenty-four theorists and compares and contrasts their theories on …

Publikace Psychická deprivace v dětství J. Langmeiera a Z. Matějčka zaznamenala již po
svém prvním vydání v r. 1963 značný ohlas. Průlomová práce, ve které autoři citují díla …

The concept of 'culture'has received considerable attention in anthropology recently. The
representation of cultures in ethnographies as autonomous, integrated and bounded wholes …

An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic
inequality Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents …

The modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth
and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these expectations …

Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while,
however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance …

The idea of children's agency is central to the growing field of childhood studies. In this book
David Oswell argues for new understandings of children's agency. He traces the …

We develop a theory of parent‐child relations that rationalizes the choice between
alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind, 1967). Parents maximize an objective …

Working-class and poor parents issue many more directives to their children, and in some
households, place more emphasis on physical discipline than do middle-class parents …