Contents: 1. Basic instincts temperaments and instinct among children. 2. Child as an individual. 3. Child psychology from scientific point of view. 4. Nutritional values among children. 5. Growth, development and maturation. 6. General aspects of personality development. 7. Learning and motivation. 8. Intellectual aspects. 9. General aspects of child psychology. 10. Child health--basic assumptions. 11. A glimpses in the study of adolescent's behaviour and problems. 12. Heredity and environment. 13. Sociological influences on child's behaviour. 14. Understanding the psychology of dilatory and precocious children. 15. Sports and child--physiological considerations. 

"The present book entitled A-Z Handbook of Child Psychology deals with two major aspects: first those ways in which all humans are similar to one another in their potentialities, patterns of development, and behaviour; and, seconds, the difference between human beings in capabilities and in behaviour as these differences are manifested within this core of similarity. We usually see two forces operating to produce similarity. The first is our biological nature, which makes humans the moderately large, omnivorous, tough, stimulation-seeking, problem-solving, symbol-using organisms that we are. The second is that necessary core of culture based on such aspects of the human condition as a long period of dependency which in turn demands a stable family structure, considerable instruction, and considerable psychological support if the highly immature organism is to survive. Within the limits imposed by these two forces, individual differences in behaviour occur as a result of hereditary and environmental variability.

Hopefully, the present book will be useful for the students and teachers of psychology, psychologists and for the general readers." (jacket)