Introducción a la Psicología Evolutiva de la Infancia

Development, in this context, is not only a chronology of events. It is, more than anything else, a dialectical process of relationships between environment, otherness and selfhood. Life, especially human life, is only possible if there is an other that originates it, drives it and takes care of it, that mediates between the environment and its needs. It could be affirmed that development constitutes one of the faces of that marvelous, and not always easy, adventure that is the construction of the human being as such, with its successes and failures, its joys and sorrows. In the present text, this construction is described, at least in its basic points. Thus, the work is structured by seven chapters that make it possible to understand the introductory concepts to the psychology of child development; the most important theoretical perspectives that interpret the development process from its epistemological bases; the initial periods of life (prenatal period, first, second and third childhood); and finally, it concludes with a review of the most frequent pathologies of child development.