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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!
Winner, APA Division 52 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award, 2014!
This new volume reviews the latest research on fathering from every continent, from cultures representing over 50% of the world’s population. International experts on...
Assessing Children's Well-Being
A Handbook of Measures
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
Behavioral medicine has now matured as a field to the point where all recognize that different populations are presented with different issues. Psychological reactions and patterns affect the health and well-being of children, as well as adults, and numerous standardized instruments for the assessment...
Handbook of Response to Intervention
The Science and Practice of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
The Second Edition of this essential handbook provides a comprehensive, updated overview of the science that informs best practices for the implementation of response to intervention (RTI) processes within Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) to facilitate the academic success of all students. The...
Trusting What You're Told
How Children Learn from Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round—never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You’re Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others.
The Human Spark
The Science of Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
What makes a human a human? In The Human Spark, pioneering psychologist Jerome Kagan offers an answer in a sweeping narrative of our personal, moral, and cultural development. In this extended meditation on human psychology as well as the methods, successes, and failures of the scientists who study...
Free Mother to Good Home
A Handbook & Survival Guide for Good Parents, Stepparents & Grandparents Who Find Themselves Underappreciated, Under-Loved, and Overwhelmed
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Have you heard the words, I never dared to treat my parents the way kids do today? If you are a baby boomer or the parent of a tween, teen, or adult child, not only have you heard those words, you may have uttered them yourself. If, in this new age of childparent relations, youve ever felt like a...
We've Got Issues
Children and Parents in the Age of Medication
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
In her provocative new book, New York Times-bestselling author Judith Warner explores the storm of debate over whether we are overdiagnosing and overmedicating our children who have "issues."
In Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, Judith Warner explained what's gone wrong with...
Moral Development
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
This class-tested text provides a comprehensive overview of the classical and current theories of moral development and applications of these theories in various counseling and educational settings. Lively and accessible, this text engages students...
Becoming Who We Are
Temperament and Personality in Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and adjustment across the lifespan? What are its biological underpinnings? From preeminent researcher Mary Rothbart, this work comprehensively...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Timely and authoritative, this unique handbook explores the breadth of current knowledge on temperament, from foundational theory and research to clinical applications. Leaders in the field examine basic temperament traits, assessment methods, and what brain imaging and molecular genetics reveal about...
Responding to Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents
A Professional's Guide to Identification, Intervention and Support
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Self-harm is a growing problem in children and young people but it can be hard to understand and difficult to recognise. Responding to Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents will help professionals to understand self-harm and respond appropriately. It covers what the risk factors are, including social...
The Little Boy Book
A Guide to the First Eight Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Complete, authoritative, and sensible, The Little Boy Book draws on four years of research, and numerous studies and interviews, to address the special needs of raising a boy today. Two writers, both parents of boys and one an early childhood educator, guide you from the day you bring your "little...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them. The premise of this book is that these two tasks are inherently linked. The communicative routines and language that children learn...
Negotiation Generation
Take Back Your Parental Authority Without Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The classic power struggle between parents and children- demystified.
Nationally recognized behavior management expert Lynne Reeves Griffin offers a commonsense yet radical approach to parenting that will enable adults to win the tug-of-war with their children about what is, and isn't, acceptable...