Child category: 4509 books
by Melissa Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Imagine a child with a rare and degenerative disease with ten specialists, four therapists, a weekly infusion, a clinical trial, and regular medical procedures. Now imagine a laughing, singing child who pretends to be a nurse to his stuffed animals, relatively untraumatized by the constant medical...
Understanding Families
Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Today’s American families are more complex and diverse than ever before—and today’s child and family professionals must be fully prepared to meet their needs. Interventionists educators, health care professionals, therapists, and social workers will get the strong foundation they need...
Book Smart
How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Authored by two passionate psychologists and educators, Book Smart: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers is a how-to guide rich with stories, lessons, activities, and ideas aimed at supporting reading development and addressing the broad range of interpersonal, social, emotional,...
Helping Children Cope with Trauma
Individual, family and community perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Helping Children Cope with Trauma bridges theory and practice in examining emerging approaches to enhancing resilience and treating traumatised children. Adopting a child-centred perspective, it highlights the importance of the synergy between individual, family, community and social interventions...
The Biologising of Childhood
Developmental Psychology and the Darwinian Myth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1990, this book looks at the history of developmental psychology in order to locate and evaluate the role played by biology in its most influential formulations.
First Charles Darwin’s own writings on child development are examined. It is shown that Darwin endorsed...
by Stephen Donald
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The grandest adventure of all is parenting a baby or toddler. Sleep coach Stephen Donald impact effective, efficient, accessible and flexible strategies based on years of research that will dramatically improve you child's sleep.
The book outlines a step-by-step approach to help parents create...
by Matthew Hodes, Susan Shur-Fen Gau
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Positive Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency examines the main mechanisms involved in improving mental health in children and adolescents, including social and biological processes, as well as effective treatments.
By taking into account diverse...
Please Explain Terrorism To Me
A Story for Children, PEARLS of Wisdom for their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A Story for Children, P-E-A-R-L-S of Wisdom for their Parents
Complemented by exquisite, colorful artwork, Dr. Zelinger skillfully crafts an easily relatable children's story using everyday situations, around the oppressive concept of Terrorism in the news. With masterful understanding of the...
by Nisha Dogra, Andrew Parkin, Clay Frake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This handbook provides a succinct introduction to child mental health, covering the nature, prevalence, treatment and management of mental health problems in children and young people.
The authors explore a range of issues surrounding the emotional needs of young people, showing how specific...
by Dr George Tucker PhD ABPP
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Parents are often blamed for causing their children's problems, regardless of the age of the child or the number of "good children" that the parents have raised in addition to the "problem child." As a result of this bias against parents, especially when the bias is propagated by those in the...
The Life Space of the Urban Child
Perspectives on Martha Muchow's Classic Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The heart of this book is the translation of The Life Space of the Urban Child, written in 1935 by Martha and Hans Heinrich Muchow. Life Space provides a fresh look at children as actors and how they absorb their city environments. It uses an empirical base connected with theories about the worlds...
by Joy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Your child is getting married. Congratulations! This guide will help any mother carry off her parental role in planning with dignity and common sense while explaining the execution of a traditional wedding. Included is vital information on advising the couple on emotional decisions, relationship issues,...
HOW TO WELCOME YOUR SPIRITUAL CHILD
A Series of Letters to Cheryl on Becoming a Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
A Baby
Maybe you feel it's time to start a family. Perhaps you even sense a soul approaching from the heavenly worlds. Possible you're already pregnant, whether intentionally or by... surprise! In every case, bringing a child into the world is one of life's most special and important tasks....
How To Help Your Baby Sleep Through The Night Secrets
Techniques On How To Make Your Baby Sleep Independently
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Do You Feel Helpless At Your Inability To How To Help Baby Sleep Through The Night?
The presence of a newborn can make you all ecstatic and keen to spend as much time as you can with them but when their sleep time does not tally with yours, it can be tortuous.
Sleeping through the night is...