Child category: 4509 books
by Hilary White
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
We all want to do whatever we can to support our children – and language and literacy lie at the heart of a child’s learning and development.
There are many simple ways of helping your child to develop their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. This book shows you how, with...
Theraplay
Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this treatment method in its traditional format of individual child and parent sessions. Its simple, action-oriented,...
Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach
Music Therapy at a Child Development Centre
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach, Amelia Oldfield explains how her approach to music therapy sessions establishes a constructive musical dialogue with children that emphasises positive experiences - these establish trust and allow feelings to be expressed through music.
Describing...
Baby Minds
Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower
Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to...
Why isn't my child talking?
The story of one mother's journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
All kids develop differently and at their own pace. But what if the child is two or three and not saying words? What if everyone said not to worry…that the kid would talk when they were ready?
Lisa Chen went through this exact issue with her daughter. In light of everyone telling her differently,...
Seven Steps to Nighttime Dryness
A Practical Guide for Parents of Children with Bedwetting
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Your child can win the bedwetting battle! Each night, millions of children go to bed hoping that this will be the night they wake up dry. If your child is one of them, you know how frustrating and painful this problem can be. Did I do something to cause this problem? you wonder. How long until my child...
by James Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Conflict with one's children or students can turn a great day into a miserable one. But avoiding necessary confrontation and the difficulty it can bring isn't the answer, either. What's needed is a guide, a master script, for discussing troublesome issues with a child or teen in a way...
Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children
Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child–parent psychotherapy promotes the child's emotional health and builds the parent's capacity to nurture and protect, particularly when...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Volume 37 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 8 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including the role of dyadic communication in infant social-cognitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Volume 35 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series is divided into nine components that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including Cognitive Mechanisms, Episodic and Autobiographical...
by Janette B. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Volume 42 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 9 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including Loneliness in Childhood, The Legacy of Early Interpersonal Experience, The Relation Between...
The Science inside the Child
The story of what happens when we're growing up
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do. It looks at children’s individual development within the development of our species, at genes, at the hormone systems that flood our bodies, at the neuroscience...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This highly respected reference and text on developmental psychopathology brings together leading authorities on the psychological, biological, and social-contextual determinants of child and adolescent problems. The comprehensive introductory chapter provides a state-of-the-art developmental--systems...
Little Kids, Big Dilemmas
Your parenting problems solved by science
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Fed up with conflicting advice? This book offers real answers to the following questions and more…
Can sleep training harm my baby?
Is screen time bad for my child?
Is breast always best?
Psychologist Dr Sarah Kuppen, expert in early child development, uses her scientific...