Child Development category: 2058 books
by Jerome Kagan, Norbert Herschkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
A Young Mind in a Growing Brain summarizes some initial conclusions that follow simultaneous examination of the psychological milestones of human development during its first decade and what has been learned about brain growth. This volume proposes that development is the process of experience working...
The Difficult Child
Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
How to help--and cope with--the difficult child
Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.
Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset...
Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child
Seeing an Overwhelming World through Their Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
It’s not easy to be a highly sensitive child. Nor is it always easy to raise, care for, guide and teach a highly sensitive child. Because the highly sensitive child experiences the world a little differently, and that can be difficult to understand.
This book aims to help you experience the...
Parenting the Difficult Child
A Biblical Perspective on Reactive Attachment Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Is your child defiant, often angry, frequently lying, inordinately affectionate to strangers, lacking in remorse, and seemingly unable to trust anyone? Antisocial behaviors and attitudes like these can lead to a diagnosis of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). Adopted children are especially prone...
Early Social Cognition
Understanding Others in the First Months of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In recent years, much stimulating research has emerged on children's theories of mind, construed as the understanding of others' intentions, beliefs, and desires. In this context, there is a renewed interest in the developmental origins of social cognition. This book is an expression of this new interest,...
Baby Hearts
A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Who says your baby can’t “talk” about his or her feelings? In fact, babies’ actions often speak louder than words! Understanding those actions–and responding appropriately to them–is the key to giving your child a head start to a healthy and happy future. Now the authors of the bestselling...
Boost your child's confidence
52 brilliant drama techniques to help your child shine
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Growing up is a tough business. As children get older and become more independent they can struggle to work out where they fit into the world, and as a parent it's natural to want to make this potentially scary process as easy and problem-free as possible. But the answer isn't to be overprotective or...
The Children's Bill of Emotional Rights
A Guide to the Needs of Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
There are approximately 7 billion people in the world, and 2 billion of them are children. Children are the last unheard minority, a group whose voice is seldom listened to, and whose rights are seldom acknowledged. Children are dependent on adults for their survival and wellbeing, and as such are...
Inclusion, Play and Empathy
Neuroaffective Development in Children's Groups
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and interactions in group settings play in the development of children's personal, emotional and social skills.
The...
Does My Child Need Help?
A Guide to Educational Assessments and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Are you worried about your child’s learning ability or behaviour? Do you suspect they may have a problem like dyslexia or AD/HD? Your child’s teacher may have recommended they be assessed by an educational psychologist, but what does this entail? Written by a practising educational psychologist...
Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The importance of high quality early childhood education is now universally recognised, and this quality crucially depends upon the practitioners who work with our young children, and their deep understanding of how children develop and learn. This book makes a vital contribution to this understanding,...
Child to Soldier
Stories from Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
What happens when children are forced to become child soldiers? How are they transformed from children to combatants? In Child to Soldier, Opiyo Oloya addresses these timely, troubling questions by exploring how Acholi children in Northern Uganda, abducted by infamous warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s...
Psychological Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children and Adolescents
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
This is the only text for school and clinical psychologists and other mental health professionals to provide a systematic developmental framework for assessment, diagnosis, and consultation of children and adolescents from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Reflecting the most current research...
Figurations
Child, Bodies, Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically,...