Child category: 4509 books

Finding out that your child has Down’s syndrome can be a time filled with worry and confusion. What does it mean for other members of the family? What adjustments will have to be made? This guide explains in straightforward language exactly what Down’s syndrome is, how to accept the...

Do I really favour one of my kids?Many parents and teachers worry that they favour one of their children and most feel guilty about it.But having favourites is not only natural, it is unavoidable, because people are born with different personality types and those are responsible for how we get along...

Bath time for most children is fun. For a newborn, it is anything but. They just want to sleep, look around, be held and eat most of the time. Still, it is important to keep them clean. Walk into any department store and you are sure to find an aisle full of different baby products, all asking...

A practical, hands-on guide for working with children diagnosed with high functioning autism spectrum disorders. Therapists play a crucial role in helping children and their families as they navigate the often stormy course of living with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As cases of autism...

The Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment brings together, for the first time, leading clinical researchers to provide empirically based recommendations for assessment of social-emotional and behavior problems and disorders in the earliest years. Each author presents...

Do you look for the bright children's book for the child? In this children's book, your child will study what machines and other equipment happen. Also on pages is favorite soft toys. My child loves this children's book with bright pictures of toy cars. Present to the child not forgotten emotions!

For many researchers, clinicians, teachers, patients, and family members, the discourse on ADHD has been occurring in silos. Traditional ADHD camps are organized primarily in terms of neurological and cognitive perspectives and to a lesser extent psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspectives. Those with...

What is childhood? In recent years, a cluster of critical and complex ideas have emerged around the nature of biological, social and psychological growth in the early years, reflecting the changing nature of adult - child relations, and political and cultural understandings of childhood in the twenty-first...

Published in 1978, Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology.

Volume 36 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes ten chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology. A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including King Solomon's Take on Word Learning, Orthographic...

Are child-care centres good for children? How can we provide good day-care? Feminists have long argued for the provision of day-care facilities so that mothers may be free to work outside the home. The call had enjoyed little support from politicians and experts, however. Feminists had been seen to...

Information is power and legal information is more so! Why not go through a book that tells you what the law is as far as children are concerned? Written in plain language, this is a book for the general public who wish to know and understand the various legal rights pertaining to children and what the...

Bullying has no higher price than the self-inflicted death of a tormented child or teen. Why is this happening, and what can be done about it? Thomas Jacobs, a retired juvenile court judge, and James Sutton, a child and adolescent psychologist, combine their expertise and decades of experience into...

John and Elizabeth Newson’s long-term investigation of child up-bringing attracted intense interest from its earliest beginnings: ‘pathbreaking’ and ‘seminal’ were adjectives that greeted their first report. The study is now established as one of the major projects of the seventies. This...