Child category: 4509 books
Embracing Rough-and-Tumble Play
Teaching with the Body in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Physical play is vital to young children's development. This practical, hands-on resource encourages you to incorporate boisterous physical play into every day and offers concrete advice on how to create spaces for safe play, how to effectively work big body movement into children's daily schedule,...
Promoting Child and Parent Wellbeing
How to Use Evidence- and Strengths-Based Strategies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Informed by a wealth of research, this accessible book focuses on a strengths-based approach to promoting children's wellbeing and giving them the best opportunities to succeed.
By identifying risk factors and the protective factors which can be used to counter them, this book stresses the...
Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmental goals, are culturally determined. Within any culture, children are shaped by the physical and social...
by Oana A. David, Raymond DiGiuseppe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This brief but potent reference combines cognitive-behavioral and rational-emotive theory and techniques in an effective group program for parents of children with externalizing disorders. The Rational Positive Parenting Program (rPPP) addresses irrational emotions and their underlying beliefs that...
The Primordial Violence
Spanking Children, Psychological Development, Violence, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
Why do parents hit those they love? What effect does it have on children? What can be done to end this pattern? These are some of the questions explored in The Primordial Violence. Featuring longitudinal data from over 7,000 U.S. families as well as...
by Judith V. Torney-Purta
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Based on a study of 12,000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale study of political attitude formation in children. The authors view political development from the perspective of a general theory of socialization, and compare...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2007
Previously considered a rare condition among children and adolescents, recent research on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has indicated an increased prevalence among this age group, insofar as it is now considered one of the most common of all psychiatric illnesses affecting youth. Handbook of Child and Adolescent Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Adoption Beyond Borders
How International Adoption Benefits Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
International adoptions have decreased dramatically in the last decade, despite robust evidence of the tremendous benefits that early placement in adoptive families can confer upon children who are not able to remain with birth families. Adoption Beyond Borders integrates evidence from a range of...
Discussions on Child Development
Volume three
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...
Kindergarten Transition and Readiness
Promoting Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Self-Regulatory Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive overview of children’s transitions to kindergarten as well as proven strategies that promote their readiness. It presents theories and research to help understand children’s development during the early childhood years. It describes evidence-based interventions...
Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Translating Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Translating Research into Practice recognizes the growing need to strengthen the links between theory, assessment, interventions, and outcomes to give resilience a stronger empirical base, resulting in more effective interventions and strength-enhancing...
Child Care
The Meeting Point
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Many parents misunderstand the meaning of high quality care when it comes to the up-bringing of their children. Is quality care about putting children in the most expensive schools? Or is it about discipline and setting boundaries? In today’s busy world, many factors hinder parents from giving high...
by Linda Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
** How To Calm A Crying Baby** is the must-have guide to sleep training for all parents, nursing moms and caregivers that will introduce you to easy ways of solving and overcoming your baby's sleep problems.
Linda Morgan, the author of the How To Calm A Crying Baby is an experienced mother...
Hard Choices
Parenting the Adolescent Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2008
AUTHORS MESSAGE TO THE READERS:
If you write a book Ill be sure to read it! These were the words that prompted the writing of this book. They were spoken to me by my youngest daughters endodontist; apparently, she had impressed him with her behavior during the visit, being ever so polite and...