Developmental Psychology With a View to Islamic Sources

The book is in five parts and fourteen chapters. In the first chapter a history of the developmental psychology, principles of the developmental psychology, principles of development, and methods of research in the developmental psychology are put forth. In the second part titled “influential factors in development” biological development; environmental development; the interaction of the environment and heredity; and the intentional self-development are discussed. The third chapter deals with the issue of “pre-natal and infantile development”. In the fourth chapter “physical and motor development” is addressed. The fifth chapter is exclusively concerned with “emotional development”. In this chapter, first, some general points about emotional development and then the development of different emotional like xenophobia, anxiety, jealousy, anger and aggression are discussed.
There are images and tables in the book.