Books like Infants, children, and adolescents by Laura E. Berk

This text presents a comprehensive overview of growth and development during the first three years of life. It is designed primarily as an introductory text for courses in infant development, infant care, and early intervention ... The text is devoted primarily to typically developing infants, but the coverage on infants with special need continues to be an important emphasis.

A comprehensive review of conduct disorder in children and adolescents, examining recent research, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention with a focus on sex differences, parenting, heredity, and environmental influences.

David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of the use of sleep labs research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it - active stories in which the dreamer is an actor - appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. Although younger children do report dreams (often at the prompting of their eager parents), careful empirical study suggests that what the child calls dreams are almost certainly waking fantasies and confabulations. Laboratory studies show that preschoolers' REM sleep dreams usually consist of isolated static images - often of animals. Foulkes argues that the late development of narrative dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.