Atypical Child Development in Context

Dr. Janet Empson is currently Visiting Fellow to the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University following a career of nearly thirty years of research and lecturing in developmental psychology at various universities in the UK. She has held the positions of Research Fellow on a project on transmitted deprivation at the University of Hull, and Principal Lecturer and Head of Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. She has contributed chapters to a number of books and has written two textbooks on child development.

• 1. Typical and Atypical in Child Development2. Risk and Resilience and Atypical Child Development3. Child Abuse4. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: Internalising and Externalising Disorders5. Genetic and Pervasive Developmental Disorders6. Learning Disability7. Approaches to Intervention8. Atypical Child Development and Social Issues.