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Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues is the only handbook to comprehensively cover infant through adolescent development within one volume. It uniquely represents the current state of the field by showcasing the most cutting-edge empirical research of leading developmental scientists from around the globe. The incredible depth and breadth within one concise package makes Child Psychology an invaluable and practical resource for researchers, advanced undergraduates and graduate students of developmental science and human development.

Lawrence Balter is Professor Emeritus at New York University where he taught developmental psychology, child psychopathology, and diagnostic psychological assessment. Balter created study abroad initiatives in developmental psychology at the Piaget Archives at the University of Geneva, NYU in Prague, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a recipient of a Professor of the Year award at NYU. Balter is an internationally renowned parenting expert who has appeared regularly in the electronic media, has published books for parents and children, and was a columnist for numerous trade magazines. He received the Distinguished Lifetime Contribution award from APA's Division of Media Psychology. He serves on the Advisory Board of The Future of Children, a joint publication of Princeton University and the Brookings Institution and is a Consulting Editor at NAEYC's Young Children.

Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda is Professor of Developmental Psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She studies intersections among children's emerging skills in language, communication, motor and social domains across the first years of life. Her research is focused on the socio- cultural contexts of early development, especially the ways that infant-parent language interactions and everyday parenting practices affect children's developmental trajectories across cultural communities within the U.S. and internationally.