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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This comprehensive edited volume synthesizes the current state of research and practice in psychological, medical, and motor disorders as they affect individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID). It examines how these disorders exist across this population, sometimes confound diagnosis, and often...
On Children Who Privilege the Body
Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapistbrings together selected papers from the career of Ann Horne and draws upon her considerable experience in the field of child and adolescent mental health.
On Children Who Privilege the Body will be of...
Transforming Despair to Hope
Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children offers a thorough overview of the problems and rewards of trying to help severely neglected and traumatised children. Drawing on over 40 cyears of clinical experience, Monica...
Gaze-Following
Its Development and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
What does a child’s ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development? What does this ability—or lack thereof—tell us about a child’s language development, understanding of other’s intentions, and the emergence of autism? This volume assembles...
Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior
A Therapist's Guide to Assessment and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Pediatric Disorders of Regulation in Affect and Behavior, second edition is a skills-based book for mental health professionals working with children experiencing disorders of self-regulation. These children are highly sensitive to stimulation from the environment, emotionally reactive, and have difficulty...
Discussions on Child Development
Volume one
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...
by Barbel Inhelder, Hermine Sinclair, Magali Bovet
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
How do children learn and how are new modes of thought developed? These questions have for years been of paramount interest to psychologists and others concerned with the cognitive development of the child.
In this major work, originally published in 1974 and reporting on over ten years’...
Sexually Harmful Youth
Successful Reintegration to School
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This Brief focuses on youth who engage in sexually harmful behavior and how they transition back into public schools after serving time in a juvenile detention center or treatment facility. The Brief examines the difference between normal sexual behaviors and sexually harmful behaviors and provides...
Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art
Using Draw-A-Story to Identify Children and Adolescents at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2005
A study of more than two hundred children using Rawley Silver's draw a story test showed a strong correlation between aggression or depression and certain types of artistic narratives; meanwhile, unbeknownst to Silver, a pair of Russian therapists were using Silver's assessment tests in a similar...
Understanding Child Neglect
Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
This concise book reviews the various types of neglect in childhood, providing an operational definition that incorporates existing viewpoints. It describes risk factors for neglect to increase awareness for improved identification, prevention, and treatment of this pervasive problem. This is...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Using psychological theory as a basis, Socializing Children through Language examines naturally occurring conversations between mothers and children in the context of achievement, self-regulation, food consumption, and television watching to illustrate how families of different socioeconomic means...
Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment
A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Research and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book reviews and critiques the growing literature on youth development under conditions of political violence and armed conflict. It presents a robust framework, based in developmental psychopathology, for evaluating current research on this topic for strength of design, methodology, and documentation....
Parents and Toddlers in Groups
A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups can be an effective medium for early intervention during a period which is critical for the negotiation...
Challenges to Implementing Effective Reading Intervention in Schools
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 154
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This special issue is a "how to" on overcoming the many systems-level challenges in K–12 public education to implement effective reading interventions for the vast numbers of students reading below grade level. It emphasizes building researcher–practitioner partnerships, providing ongoing professional...