{"id":11472,"count":11,"description":"Find below some of the best books on child psychology ever written, as recommended by some of the greatest experts in the field.\r\n\r\nChild psychology, or developmental psychology, is the study of how an individual's cognitive, linguistic, emotional and social skills change and progress over the course of his or her lifetime. Areas of interest in this field include attachment theory, infant perception, the influence of gender and the development of theory of mind.\r\n\r\nWe've spoken to experts including the clinical psychologist <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/tanya-byron-on-child-psychology-and-mental-health\/\">Tanya Byron<\/a>, \u00a0the professor of perinatal psychobiology <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/vivette-glover-on-life-before-birth-and-life-after-it\/\">Vivette Glover<\/a> and the psychologist and philosopher <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/alison-gopnik-on-children-and-their-minds\/\">Alison Gopnik<\/a>\u2014who argues that children's minds and how they develop can provide insight into profound philosophical questions\u2014and asked them to recommend the best books on child psychology and their specialist areas of expertise.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/psychology\/child-psychology\/","name":"Child Psychology","slug":"child-psychology","taxonomy":"category","parent":6281,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6281"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11472"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11472"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}