Child category: 4509 books
Boost your child's confidence
52 brilliant drama techniques to help your child shine
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Growing up is a tough business. As children get older and become more independent they can struggle to work out where they fit into the world, and as a parent it's natural to want to make this potentially scary process as easy and problem-free as possible. But the answer isn't to be overprotective or...
Does My Child Need Help?
A Guide to Educational Assessments and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Are you worried about your child’s learning ability or behaviour? Do you suspect they may have a problem like dyslexia or AD/HD? Your child’s teacher may have recommended they be assessed by an educational psychologist, but what does this entail? Written by a practising educational psychologist...
Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse
Identification, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
A comprehensive guide to the identification, assessment, and treatment of child sexual abuse
The field of child sexual abuse has experienced an explosion of research, literature, and enhanced treatment methods over the last thirty years. Representing the latest refinements of thought in this...
Figurations
Child, Bodies, Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically,...
by Jacqueline Bhabha
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2014
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and routinely threatened with deportation to their countries of origin? Why do so many young refugees of war-ravaged and failed states end up warehoused in camps, victimized...
by Toni L. Hembree-Kigin, Cheryl Bodiford McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Over the past two decades, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) emerged as a leading-edge method for helping parents improve their children's disruptive and oppositional behavior. Today, PCIT has a robust evidence base; is used across the country in settings as diverse as hospitals, mental health...
The Journey of Child Development
Selected Papers of Joseph D. Noshpitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
As founder and past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and president of the American Association of Children's Residential Centers, Joseph Noshpitz was at the forefront of psychodynamic treatment and research with children and adolescents for more than forty years....
Child Safety, Welfare and Well-being
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
This volume presents the unique features of child abuse and neglect and discusses proposed as well as experimented protective measures to create awareness about child rights and their implementation. Divided into four sections, the volume discusses (a) the nature and prevalence of child abuse and...
Biomental Child Development
Perspectives on Psychology and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Biomental Child Development: Perspectives on Psychology and Parenting coins the novel term “biomental” to denote the interaction of the actual and gradually integrating body and mind from conception through development over infancy, childhood, and adolescence. This innovative approach presents...
Baby Poop
What Your Pediatrician May Not Tell You
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Eat, sleep, and poop. That’s what babies do. Every parent has challenges and questions about these activities and there is an abundance of information on eating and sleeping, but poop? The appearance and behavior of a child’s stools can give more information about the child’s health than any other...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This handbook offers a theoretical foundation for the adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families. The volume examines current treatments for children with ASD and provides a rationale for why PCIT is considered a strong...
No-Drama Discipline
The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline.
“A lot of fascinating insights . . . an eye-opener worth reading.”—Parents
Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s...
The Highly Sensitive Child
Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
The bestselling author and psychologist whose books have topped 240,000 copies in print now addresses the trait of “high sensitivity” in children–and offers a breakthrough parenting guidebook for highly sensitive children and their caregivers.
With the publication of The Highly Sensitive...
You Are Your Child's First Teacher, Third Edition
Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The first book in America to popularize the insights of Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Waldorf schools, regarding the developmental needs of young children, this revised and updated edition offers new ways for parents and educators to enrich the lives of children from birth to age six.
Today’s...