Child category: 4509 books
Why Love Matters
How affection shapes a baby's brain
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and physical health. This second edition follows on from the success of the first, updating the scientific research,...
Discussions on Child Development
Volume four
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in School
A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties in Children Aged 5-11
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and to provide appropriate help.
This easy-to-use tool provides an observation checklist which...
by Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings
A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and providing guidance on how they can be helped.
Combining an accessible introduction to attachment...
Children's Dreams
Understanding the Most Memorable Dreams and Nightmares of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
When a child talks about a vivid nighttime dream, it can be difficult for adults to know how to respond. Dream researchers Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley take readers beyond “it was just a dream” to help children and adults understand why we dream and how dreams can help us unlock our creativity...
And Nanny Makes Three
Mothers and Nannies Tell the Truth About Work, Love, Money, and Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
From the playground to the playroom, mothers and nannies are engaged in a relationship like no other – they are sometimes co-parents and comrades, often confidants, and much more than employer and employee. It is a complex relationship that touches on issues of love, trust, and money. It can be...
Denied! Failing Cordelia: Parental Love and Parental-State Theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court
Book Two: Pride and Legal Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Pride and Legal Prejudice is the second part of a trilogy covering the authors efforts to parent and advocate for his adopted child with severe attachment issues in both Seattle and Los Angeles. Readers will be able to see here how his tenacious efforts to help his daughter would end up being denied...
Psychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood
The Case for an Additional Tripartite Complex
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Psychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood: The Case for an Additional Tripartite Complex defines, delineates, and demonstrates the usefulness of an earlier variant of the Oedipus Complex, a complex first manifesting itself with the onset of separation-individuation and ending around the age of...
by Susan Louise Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Early Childhood Report Writing is written to help professionals and college students with report writing on young children. The focus of the book, Early Childhood Report Writing is to help professionals and college students have some examples of how the child’s personal information can be described...
Andrea Grace's Gentle Sleep Solutions
A practical guide to solving your child's sleeping problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Does your baby have trouble sleeping? You're not alone. Designed specifically for the very many parents encountering the same issues as you, this practical, no-nonsense book gives you the insights, tools and strategies to help your baby get the rest they need - however difficult the challenge.
Drawing...
Making It Better
Activities for Children Living in a Stressful World
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Unfortunately, traumatic and stressful events are a part of many young children’s lives. With nearly 20,000 copies of the first edition (ISBN 978-1-884834-26-4) in print, this is a popular resource for guidance counselors, law enforcement, and teachers caring for children who have experienced traumatic...
Television and the Aggressive Child
A Cross-national Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The research presented in this book, originally published in 1986, looks to pinpoint the psychological processes involved in the media violence-aggression relation. Expanding on earlier studies, the compilation of essays here delves deeply into aggression study and compares results about media influence...
Kids' Club Letters
Narrative Tools for Stimulating Process and Dialogue in Therapy Groups for Children and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Kids' Club Letters provides an innovative approach to group psychotherapy for school-aged children who experience a range of social and emotional problems. A narrative therapy approach is adapted, taking the form of letters written by the therapist in the voice of a child who is asking for advice...