Mental State Understanding: Individual Differences in Typical and Atypical Development

• Main Author: Paola Molina (auth)
• Other Authors: Anne Henning (auth), Daniela Bulgarelli (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; Down Syndrome; Reflective Functioning; Mentalization; Autistic Spectrum Disorder; Emotion Understanding; Theory of Mind; Social Cognition; Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors; Hearing Impairment
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The current book addresses the development of mental state understanding in children with typical and atypical population, and reports new suggestions about the way to evaluate it and to support it through training. The presented frame is multifaceted. In respect to typical populations, the role of...