A Clinician’s Guide to Normal Cognitive Development in Childhood

Elisabeth Hollister Sandberg, PhD, is a member of the Psychology Department faculty at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts.

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction. Spritz, Sandberg, The Case for Children's Cognitive Development: A Clinical-developmental Perspective. Part I: Communicating with Children. Haskill, Corts, Acquiring Language. Skelley, Crnic, Communicating About Internal States. Golden, General Guidelines for Talking With Children. Part II: Understanding Others' Perspectives. Fireman, Kose, Perspective Taking. Spritz, Fergusson, Bankoff, False Beliefs and the Development of Deception. Part III: Children's Memory. Reeder, Martin, Turner, Memory Development in Childhood. Sandberg, Spritz, Remembering. Gregory, Carol, Compo, Talking With Children About Past Events: Children's Memory and Suggestibility. Part IV: Developing Reason and Executive Control. Sandberg, McCullough, The Development of Reasoning Skills. White-Ajmani, O'Connell, Moral Reasoning. Holler, Greene, Developmental Changes in Children's Executive Functioning. Conclusion. Viola, Knowing What We Know: The Developing Child and the Developing Clinician.