Child category: 4509 books
by Eva Marie Stasiak
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2008
A recent government report revealed that a family with a newborn child can expect to spend about $260,000 for food, shelter, and other necessities to raise their child over the next 17 years. As scary as these statistics are, starting a family does not have to put you in the poor house. This new,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout...
Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety
A Guide for Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
"Lebowitz and Omer have taken the latest and most relevant scientific research and synthesized it into an essential read for caregivers of anxious children. Treating Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety: A Guide for Caregivers provides an 'inside look' at the nuts and bolts of cognitive behavioral therapy...
by Jennifer S. Smith Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"BUT I'M NOT TIRED!" is the book for the thousands of parents whose children and teenagers don’t sleep well enough, or for long enough. Dr. Jennifer Smith draws on scientific research and her vast experience as a leading child and adolescent psychologist to describe how good sleep hygiene recharges...
Deficiency and Delinquency
An Interpretation of Mental Testing
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
As an interpretation of the results which have been obtained with mental tests, this book lies between the topics of deficiency and delinquency. It is an attempt to discover the significance of objective measurements of ability in connection with both of these fields. The pressing practical problem...
Rêverie e trasformazioni tra madre e bambino
Esperienze di osservazione in famiglia e in ambiente ospedaliero e riabilitativo
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 21, 2017
L’osservazione in ambito psicoanalitico, oggetto di molte ricerche degli ultimi decenni, presenta una grande ricchezza di implicazioni conoscitive e cliniche. Da qui lo studio oggetto del volume, riferito al metodo dell’osservazione partecipe, enunciato ed elaborato da Bick, che intende valorizzare...
Emozioni e relazioni nella separazione genitoriale
Aspetti teorici e d'intervento
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Questo volume si concentra su una serie di analisi psicologiche dei processi di separazione familiare, focalizzando i diversi ambiti coinvolti. Oltre che a psicologi, psicoterapeuti, psichiatri e neuropsichiatri infantili, il testo può essere un utile strumento per: avvocati e magistrati che si occupano...
Transforming Infant Wellbeing
Research, Policy and Practice for the First 1001 Critical Days
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to highlight the critical importance of the first 1001 days of infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday. Introduced and edited by Penelope Leach, who uniquely combines academic knowledge of infant development with the...
How not to fuck-up your kids
Minimising childhood trauma and practical parenting ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
This passionate, eye-opening and heart-felt book is perfect for parents of 0-8 year olds and gives an amazing insight into how to minimise childhood trauma. By changing your attitude to parenting you will raise emotionally mature children without losing your mind.
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Taming the Tiger Mom
A Balanced Approach to Maximizing a Child's Potential
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Parents are raising their children in a world that is both more complicated and more flooded with information. The cross-generational passing down of parental wisdom from one s own family and neighbors is no longer common practice. Instead, parents receive overwhelming, often competing, advice from...
The Fluency Construct
Curriculum-Based Measurement Concepts and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of fluency as a construct and its assessment in the context of curriculum-based measurement (CBM). Comparing perspectives from language acquisition, reading, and mathematics, the book parses the vagueness and complexities surrounding fluency concepts and...
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children
Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.
Psychologist Kim S. Golding shows how you can use stories to build connections with children aged 4–16...
Cognitive Development
Neo-Piagetian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Tying together almost four decades of neo-Piagetian research, Cognitive Development provides a unique critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories. Like Piaget, neo-Piagetian theorists take a constructivist approach to cognitive development, are broad in scope, and...
J'aide mon enfant hypersensible à s'épanouir
Du tout-petit à l'adolescent, comment apprivoiser son hypersensibilité
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2018
« Souvenons-nous donc, en toutes circonstances, de prendre le temps de rassurer, de réconforter, de soutenir et d'encourager l'enfant, pour l'accompagner dans sa croissance humaine. Il s'agit d'accueillir la sensibilité de chaque enfant, comme elle vient, comme elle est, là dans l'instant, pour...