child psychology

American  

noun

1. the study of the mental states and processes of children.

2. the application of psychological techniques to children.

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Etymology

Origin of child psychology

First recorded in 1895–1900

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child psychology

As of 2021, only 10% of master’s degree recipients who specialized in developmental and child psychology were male.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

“You have to learn to cater to what’s developmentally appropriate to each person. You learn about child behavior, child psychology and the formation of the brain and how they learn.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

Holocaust survivor Lydia Tischler is awarded an MBE for services to Holocaust remembrance and child psychology.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

“Dr. Staats had a profound impact on the science of clinical child psychology through his ground-breaking work on time out,” Cheryl B. McNeil, a professor of psychology at West Virginia University, wrote in an email.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2021

Let us sum up what our plunge into child psychology has given us toward the understanding of the dream.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund