Child category: 4509 books
by Parenting Magazine Editors
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
A guide to discipline grounded in love and respect.
Savvy parents have come to rely on PARENTING magazine for its focused advice and expert guidance on all the tough issues of raising children. Now PARENTING readers are delighted to find the same winning blend of upbeat writing, quick information,...
by Larry Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
What sets this classic child-raising book apart from other books is Dr. Larry Waldman's ability to tell you why your child is misbehaving--then, step-by-step, in easy-to-understand language he tells you how to use proven methods to reverse that behavior. Over 24,000 families have been helped...
Children of Hoarders
How to Minimize Conflict, Reduce the Clutter, and Improve Your Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Growing up with a hoarder can be a confusing, painful, and sometimes dangerous experience. And when it comes to finding help for a hoarder parent, many adult children find themselves taking on the exhausting role of caretaker. As the child of a hoarder, you may be wondering what resources are available...
by Daniel A. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
An expert clinician brings attachment theory into the realm of parenting skills.
Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but many of these ideas—so integral to successful therapeutic work with kids and adolescents— have yet to be effectively...
Spare the Kids
Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in America
Why do so many African Americans have such a special attachment to whupping children? Studies show that nearly 80 percent of black parents see spanking, popping, pinching,...
Letting Go with Love and Confidence
Raising Responsible, Resilient, Self-Sufficient Teens in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A parenting guide to adolescence - a sensible and considerate resource for navigating your teen to adulthood, transforming a traditional time of strife into an opportunity for positive growth for both you and your child.
For parents, nurturing their teens to become healthy, well-adjusted adults...
by Becky A Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
I Love You Rituals offers more than seventy delightful rhymes and games that send the message of unconditional love and enhance children's social, emotional, and school success.Winner of a 1999 Parent's Guide Children's Media Award, these positive nursery rhymes, interactive finger plays, soothing...
Back to Normal
Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions.
In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis. Current...
Your Child's Growing Mind
Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The completely updated and expanded version of the 1987 classic hailed by parents and educators everywhere.
Counselling Children, Adolescents and Families
A Strengths-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
`I recommend this book to anyone who lives or works with families, children or teenagers' - Nurturing Potential
`This is a valuable book, worth attention in every child and family service. My own agency has ordered a copy!' - Robert Cumming, Nurturing Potential
`John Sharry's book is...
Kids Who Laugh
How to Develop Your Child’s Sense of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
While some children are born with an innate sense of humor, for most kids, humor is a learned behavior. Kids Who Laugh is the first book to examine the psychology of humor in children and explore the many benefits that this characteristic has to offer, including self-confidence, coping skills, creativity,...
Helping Your Troubled Teen: Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens
Learn to Recognize, Understand, and Address the Destructive Behavior of Today's Teens and Preteens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The first "adolescent primer" on the marketDestructive trends among today's youth are growing, making life very different from when their parents were growing up. The primary four self-destructive behaviors in adolescence today are excessive alcohol and substance abuse, promiscuity, self...
Kids
How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and...
Problem Solving in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
A Skills-Based, Collaborative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
This highly accessible book presents clear steps for helping children and adolescents to develop and test out new solutions to specific social, emotional, or behavioral challenges. The author demonstrates how therapists of any orientation can implement problem solving as a stand-alone intervention...