Child category: 4509 books
Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
A Clinician's Guide to Effective Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
This comprehensive, interdisciplinary guidebook is designed for the mental health practitioner seeking to utilize proven and effective interventions with children and adolescents suffering from significant anxiety and phobic disorders. Each chapter is co-authored by a clinical child psychologist and...
by Richard M. Lerner, Michael E. Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The essential reference for human development theory, updated and reconceptualized
The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to which all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now in its Seventh Edition, the Handbook...
Child Language
Acquisition and Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
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This is the best book on the market for taking students from ‘how children acquire their first language’ to the point where
they can engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language. No background...
by Kerry Kelly Novick, Jack Novick
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work demonstrates the crucial role of parent work in child and adolescent therapy. The Novicks suggest that restoring the parent-child relationship contributes to long-lasting therapeutic change in children and adolescents. With a multitude of vivid clinical examples,...
When Your Child Needs Help
A Parent's Guide to Therapy for Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
One of America's top child psychologists provides reassuring advice for parents whose children are experiencing emotional or developmental problems. Here is the essential guide for every parent who is struggling to distinguish typical growing pains from more serious problems.
Child Development
An Active Learning Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the Third Edition of the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce A. Munsch invite students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development. Using robust pedagogical tools built into...
by Sallie Montanye
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
~The valiant battle to save a student's life and a teacher's career~
The administrators stated the death of a child was of no public significance. The child's teacher disagreed. This is the story of the fight waged by one brave educator who believed a child's life did hold importance...
Making Sense (Routledge Revivals)
The Child's Construction of the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The growing child comes to understand the world, makes sense of experience and becomes a competent social individual. First published in 1987, Making Sense reflected the way in which developmental psychologists had begun to look at these processes in increasingly naturalistic, social situations. Rather...
Child Maltreatment in Residential Care
History, Research, and Current Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This data-rich volume reviews short- and long-term consequences of residential or institutional care for children across the globe as well as approaches to reducing maltreatment. Up-to-date findings from a wide range of developing and developed countries identify forms of abuse and neglect associated...
Heredity and Environment in 300 Adoptive Families
The Texas Adoption Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book presents the results of a thirty-five-year research project involving 300 families, each of whom adopted at least one child at birth from a Texas home for unwed mothers during the period of 1962-1970. The book weaves together information about the birth parents of the adopted children; information...
by James G. Dwyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
How can we end the inter-generational cycle of poverty and dysfunction in the US's urban ghettos?
This ground-breaking and controversial book is the first to provide a child-centered perspective on the subject by combining a wealth of social science information with sophisticated normative...
Children and Adolescents
A Biocultural Approach to Psychological Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
An individual's understanding of himself must begin with an appreciation of his origin. Thus, the concern of modern man to understand his behavior has led to an investigation of the forces that influence human development. Investigation encompasses many academic subjects: genetics, biology, medicine,...
Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy
An Ethical and Clinical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives. Chapters address issues around appropriate and sensitive therapist-initiated touch, therapeutic approaches...
Adolescence, Sexuality, and the Criminal Law
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Gain an understanding of the threat to freedom that is posed by state regulation of adolescent sexual behavior
Sexual autonomy encompasses both the right to engage in wanted sexual activity and the right to be free and protected from unwanted sexual aggression. Only when both aspects of adolescents’...