Child category: 4509 books
by Susan Urban
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
GUIDE IN A NUTSHELL - Becoming a parent usually means that you have little time to spare and less time to be organised. It can be frustrating and maddening to be faced with a room which is in chaos, so that’s where this handy book comes in.
How to Create Order in Your Child’s Room is the perfect...
by Angela Reuss
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Are You Dealing with the “I Want it Now!” Attitude from Your Child?Some call it entitlement, some call it laziness, others call it the affliction of today’s parenting landscape.What is it?It’s the commonly accepted idea that it’s okay for kids to be spoiled, overindulged, and...
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
This updated edition of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy reflects the many changes in the profession. It includes:
additional chapters on neuroscience, work with ‘looked after children’ and with foster parents, working in schools
enlarged chapters on research, attachment...
Screen Time
How Electronic Media-From Baby Videos to Educational Software-Affects Your Young Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
As a mother, Lisa Guernsey wondered about the influence of television on her two young daughters. As a reporter, she resolved to find out. What she first encountered was tired advice, sensationalized research claims, and a rather draconian mandate from the American Academy of Pediatrics: no TV at...
Unseen Worlds
Looking Through the Lens of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
The child's world often revolves around dreams and fantasy. Imaginary friends, places and play can seem entirely real, and yet in dismissing these as 'just your imagination', many adults cut a tie that can be the key to understanding a child.
Unseen Worlds explores children's experiences of...
Ready, Set, Potty!
Toilet Training for Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Potty training a child with developmental disorders can be a real challenge, and sometimes the extra difficulties make you feel as though you've tried everything, and failed. In this book, Brenda Batts shows how you can overcome problems, big and small, and provides tried and tested methods that really...
by David Rettew
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Exploring the differences between temperamental traits and psychological disorders.
What is the difference between a child who is temperamentally sad and one who has depression? Can a kid be angry by temperament without being mentally ill? How can two thrill-seeking parents end up with a shy,...
by Christine B. McCormick, PhD, David G. Scherer
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
This accessible text--now revised and updated--has given thousands of future educators a solid grounding in developmental science to inform their work in schools. The book reviews major theories of development and their impact on educational practice. Chapters examine how teaching and learning intersect...
After the Cradle Falls
What Child Abuse Is, How We Respond To It, And What You Can Do About it
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
There may be no other social problem so common, yet so little understood by the general public, as child abuse and neglect. This book is intended to help remedy that situation. After the Cradle Falls integrates examples from folklore, songs, and news articles with the latest summary of empirical research...
by Mary C. Talaga, RPh, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Simple offers everything you need to know about the use of psychoactive medications in the treatment of childhood and adolescent psychological disorders in easy-to-understand language.
This fully revised third edition offers updated DSM-V...
Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology
A Developmental Perspective, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Written from a developmental perspective, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology is organized around five prominent and recurring themes: the course of normal development proceeds in an orderly and predictable direction; maladaptive behaviors represent deviations from the normal path; maladaptive...
Child Exploitation and Trafficking
Examining the Global Challenges and U.S. Responses
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation. The numbers of children sexually abused for non-commercial purposes are even higher. Put simply, the growing, increasingly-organized epidemic of child exploitation demands a coordinated response.
The...
Effective Parenting for the Hard-to-Manage Child
A Skills-Based Book
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2007
Effective Parenting for the Hard-to-Manage Child is a skills-based book for parents who need practical advice from experts, without all the jargon and generalizations. The book provides specific strategies and techniques for children who are intense, highly reactive, and unable to self-calm.
It...
by Brian Casull
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Our American Reunion is a true account. It is primarily a story about motherhood. But It is also a story about the “Ghost in the wishing well.” That sentinel event in life which leads to a loss that remains as a lifelong scar. The ghost in the wishing well. The one which never will be set free...