Child category: 4509 books
Revealing the Inner Worlds of Young Children
The MacArthur Story Stem Battery and Parent-Child Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
This book reports the work of a 20-year collaboration between a multidisciplinary group of clinicians and developmental scientists who have created and investigated a new tool to elicit and analyze children's narratives. This tool is the MacArthur Story Stem Battery, a systematic collection of story...
Children's Anxiety
A Contextual Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Children’s Anxiety: A Contextual Approach provides an introduction to anxiety in children and teenagers, emphasising the importance of understanding the life circumstances of young people. The book provides an up-to-date account of research on the developmental, familial and social context of child...
State of the Nanny
Telling it like it really is
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Everyone knows what a nanny is, yet the role of the modern nanny is still widely misunderstood. State of the Nanny provides a clear-eyed assessment of today’s nannying industry and its potential for improvement. Essential reading for nannies and those who employ them."Louise Dunham is THE...
by Lynnda M. Dahlquist
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Pain is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon, with physiological, behav ioral, emotional, cognitive, and developmental aspects (Zeltzer, Barr, McGrath, & Schechter, 1992). To effectively evaluate and manage pain in children, the clini cian must be able to assess the unique ways these complex...
The CRAF-E4 Family Engagement Model
Building Practitioners’ Competence to Work with Diverse Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
This book lays out how mental health practitioners can best engage parents in their children's education for the child’s best educational outcome. The book presents several different engagement strategies, allowing for differences in socio-political, cultural, and parental beliefs and understandings....
Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology
Development of the Social Brain
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Social relationships play a central role in the evolution and development of human culture and cognition. Volume 39 of the Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology (Development of the Social Brain) adresses the ontogeny and phylogeny of the social brain from multiple perspectives and levels of analysis....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This handbook explores the rapid growth in childhood developmental disabilities (DD) treatments. It reviews current evidence-based treatments for common psychopathologies and developmental disorders and evaluates the strengths of the treatments based on empirical evidence. Spanning infancy through...
The Parents' Concise Guide to Childhood Vaccinations
From Newborns to Teens, Practical Medical and Natural Ways to Protect Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
As a physician trained in both standard and holistic medicine–and as a parent herself–Lauren Feder, M.D., presents the facts about vaccinations.
If you have chosen to vaccinate your children, she offers both practical medical and natural remedies to avoid possible side effects.
If...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
This handbook describes evidence-based methods of assessing psychological, educational, behavioral, and developmental problems in children and adolescents. It provides state-of-the-art analyses of leading assessment tools and methods. Chapters provide an overview of childhood assessment issues,...
by Ann Horne, Monica Lanyado
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Winnicott’s description of "doing something else" or "working as a psychoanalyst" when not engaged in the actual analysis of his patients resonates with the child psychotherapist today. Individual psychotherapy is certainly a valuable part of the work but much of the time the CPT is "doing something...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This volume presents current research on the connections between the home and family environment on children’s mathematics development. Focusing on infancy through first grade, it details the role of parents and other caregivers in promoting numeracy and the ways their active participation can prepare...
Help Him Make You Smile
The Development of Intersubjectivity in the Atypical Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2007
Intersubjectivity refers to the motivation and capacity to connect and share one's own inner world with that of another person. This book addresses the questions: how does this precious human communication develop in infancy, and what can or should be done when it does not develop? The author presents...
Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months
Book II The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In a society where two-thirds of divorces occur within six years of having a child, the first few months can be a crucial time for establishing healthy parental roles and routines. In Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months, Book II of the groundbreaking series The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents,...
Achieving Best Behavior for Children with Developmental Disabilities
A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Carers
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Achieving good behavior and social skills in a child with developmental disabilities can often be very difficult, and methods that improve behavior in other children are often unsuitable or ineffective. Achieving Best Behavior for Children with Developmental Disabilities is an accessible workbook...