Introduction
1 Basic concepts and principles in developmental psychology - Derek Hook / Kate Cockcroft
SECTION ONE: Psychoanalytic approaches to development and personality
2 A basic introduction to psychoanalytic thought - Jacki Watts
3 Freud's psychoanalytic theory of development and personality - Jacki Watts / Derek Hook
4 Klein's object relations theory of development and personality - Jacki Watts
5 Fairbairn’s contributions to object relations theory - Cora Smith
6 Wilfred Bion: Thinking, feeling and the search for truth - Gavin Ivey
7 Donald Winnicott - Jacki Watts
8 Kernberg’s theory of normal and pathological development - Carol Long
9 Heinz Kohut: Self psychology - Sally Swartz
10 Attachment theory - Lee Senior
11 Jung's analytic theory of the development of personality - Jacki Watts
12 Lacan's mirror stage - Derek Hook
13 Erikson’s psychosocial stages of development - Derek Hook
SECTION TWO: Cognitive development
This section has been totally revamped to include chapters on each aspect of cognitive functioning.
14 Introduction to cognitive development - Kate Cockcroft
15 Piaget’s constructivist theory of cognitive development - Kate Cockcroft
16 Intellectual development - Kate Cockcroft / Nicky Israel
17 Memory development - Kate Cockcroft
18 Language development - Kate Cockcroft
19 Kohlberg’s theory of moral reasoning - James Grant
20 Evolutionary development - Michael Greyling
21 Contributions of cognitive science approaches to cognitive developmental psychology - Kevin G F Thomas / Susan Malcolm-Smith / Marianne Ball / Michelle Robberts
22 Vygotsky’s theory of the development of cultural tools - Gillian Mooney
SECTION THREE: Psychosocial and socio-political contexts of development
23 Developmental psychology: Critiques and contextual considerations - Norman Duncan
24 Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory of development - Derek Hook
25 Violent crime and human development in South Africa - Garth Stevens
26 The effects of trauma on child development: Children in South Africa - Patrick Connolly / Gill Eagle
27 Critical issues in developmental psychology - Derek Hook / Norman Duncan
28 Race, culture and psychological theory - Mambwe Kasese-Hara
29 Gender identity: Contestations and questions - Gillian Mooney / Peace Kiguwa
30 Theory and South African developmental psychology research and literature - Catriona Macleod