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Lonely Children and Adolescents

Self-Perceptions, Social Exclusion, and Hope

by Malka Margalit
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010

From texting and social networking sites to after-school activities, young people have many opportunities to interact with one another, and yet loneliness and isolation trouble today’s youth in increasing numbers. Many children and teens report feeling lonely even in the midst of family and friends,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004

Offers a review of the latest literature but moreover a practical guide essential to professionals who give their expert opinions to courts in child care cases.
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Straight Talk on Parenting

A No-Nonsense Approach on How to Grow a Grown-Up

by Vicki Hoefle
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Parents these days are under a great deal of pressure to be "perfect." From psychologists to social scientists, journalists to weekend bloggers, everyone has an opinion about the do's and don'ts for raising healthy, well-adjusted--and let's not forget, polite--children in today's fast-paced...
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Parenting as Partners

How to Launch Your Kids Without Ejecting Your Spouse

by Vicki Hoefle
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017

Very few families are perfect. But looking from the outside in, through conversations in the grocery store or clicking through social media, oftentimes it seems we are the only ones struggling with raising our kids or aligning with our spouses on parenting. The reality is that so many families struggle....
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Children and Disasters

A Practical Guide to Healing and Recovery

by Joseph Capozzoli
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002

Today, one in every three Americans will be affected by trauma, and the most vulnerable among these victims are children. Children and adolescents in our communities are exposed to disastrous and devastating events, including natural disasters, violence, accidents, and, most recently, terrorist attacks,...
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Children Taken Seriously

In Theory, Policy and Practice

by Chris Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005

In Children Taken Seriously, leading researchers and policy makers consider how children can be recognized as social actors rather than passive consumers or victims. Using children's own views and experiences as a starting point, they explore how children can be involved as partners in the decision-making...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010

Volume 38 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series is concerned with the development of memory in the first years of life. It covers an introduction to normative development of memory during this period and an introduction of a means of assessing memory in preverbal infants--namely,...
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by Michael Lewis, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013

Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory, Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first, infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These "action patterns" are not learned,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013

The Handbook of Crisis Intervention and Developmental Disabilities synthesizes a substantive range of evidence-based research on clinical treatments as well as organizational processes and policy. This comprehensive resource examines the concept of behavioral crisis in children and adults with special...
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Middle School Makeover

Improving the Way You and Your Child Experience the Middle School Years

by Michelle Icard
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The book helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues...
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Representation, Memory, and Development

Essays in Honor of Jean Mandler

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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014

A festschrift to honor Jean Mandler, this volume contains contributions from leading scholars focusing on the child's development of memory, visual representation, and language. It is appropriate for students and researchers in cognitive psychology, language acquisition, and memory.
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by Ingrid Wild
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011

Our chaotic world is out of balance. It should come as no surprise that our planet is rebelling. We have treated the earth with shortsightedness and without respect. To get it back in balance we must first learn to get ourselves in balance. To attain world peace we must work on inner peace. We must...
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by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 21, 2015

Questo manuale è rivolto agli operatori impegnati nei servizi di protezione dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza nel difficile compito di valutare, per sostenere, le capacità genitoriali nei casi di rischio evolutivo e di pregiudizio. Il suo scopo è quello di fornire strumenti evidence-based attraverso...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010

The relationships between children and their parents are the building blocks for f- ily relationships throughout life. The nature of the parent-child relationship begins with parenting—the practices and strategies that parents engage in as they raise their children. Parenting during childhood sets...
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