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Document Outline

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• PART I: ONE SIZE CAN NEVER FIT ALL
  • 1 Why a Perspective on Child and Family Development?
  • 2 Caveat Lector: On the Limitations and Relevance of Developmental Theory, Statistics, and Methods
• PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY IN OVERVIEW
  • 3 Cognitive Development
  • 4 Language Development
  • 5 Social and Emotional Development
  • 6 The Child’s Defense Mechanisms: Regression, Stress, and Impediments to Developmental Capacity
  • 7 Developmental Asynchrony and Décalage
• PART III: IN THE BEST DEVELOPMENTAL INTERESTS OF THE CHILD: TOPICS IN SEPARATION, VISITATION, AND REUNIFICATION
  • 8 A Child’s Understanding of Time, Separation, and Loss
  • 9 Custodial Schedules and Infant Overnights
  • 10 On Visitation Resistance and Refusal
  • 11 Growing Up Apart: Child–Parent Separation
  • 12 Development and Parent–Child Reunification
  • 13 Development and the Termination of Parental Rights
• PART IV: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY TO FAMILY LAW PRACTICE
  • 14 What Is a “Mature Minor”?