1st Int’l Congress on Children Developmental Psychology opens Sept 27

First International Congress on Children and Young Adults Developmental Psychology from the Islamic and Western Viewpoints will be held in Shiraz from September 27-29.

According to the Public Relations Department of Islamic Azad University, academic secretary of the event, Hassan Ahadiyan said that the event will discuss children developmental psychology from the Islamic and western perspectives.

It will also deal with emotional problems of children in cultural, social and ethical terms, he noted.

Moral development in childhood, moral education from the Islamic and western points of view are among the main topics to be discussed during the congress, he said.

Ahadian also added that some 500 articles from Iran, Portugal, Germany, France, Russia, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Tajikistan have been delivered to the secretariat of the congress.

Some 100 articles will be selected for presentation during the three-day event, he noted.

Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.

Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire life span.

This field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other psycho-physiological processes; cognitive development involving areas such as problem solving, moral understanding, and conceptual understanding; language acquisition; social, personality, and emotional development; and self-concept and identity formation.