Child Development category: 2058 books
How to Introduce Solid Foods to Your Baby
GUIDE IN A NUTSHELL
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2018
This guide was created for parents, future parents, and caretakers of babies who feel lost in the jungle of conflicting advice and information from relatives, friends, and the internet. After reading this, you will have no doubts as to when and what to give your child. You will be ready to introduce your little one to new foods that will ensure their proper development.
Communimetrics
A Communication Theory of Measurement in Human Service Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Measurement in human services means one thing: how well the effort serves clients. But the data doesn’t exist in a vacuum and must be communicated clearly between provider and client, provider and management, and across systems. During the past decade, innovative communimetric measures have helped...
Handbook of School Mental Health
Research, Training, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
With so few therapeutic outlets readily available to young people, schools have evolved into mental health centers for many students. Yet schools are hampered by limited access to resources needed to provide mental health promotion, prevention, and intervention services.
Like its acclaimed...
Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals
Neurocognitive Measurement and Predictors
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Humans’ development of literacy has been a recent focus of intense research from the reading, cognitive, and neuroscience fields. But for individuals who are deaf—who rely greatly on their visual skills for language and learning—the findings don’t necessarily apply, leaving theoretical and...
The Mother and Her Child
Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss, edited by Salman Akhtar, focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and child observational...
Handbook of Culturally Responsive School Mental Health
Advancing Research, Training, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Schools across the United States – as well as much of the world – are experiencing widespread change. Students are more diverse ethnically, academically, and emotionally. More attention is being paid to abuse and neglect, violence and bullying, and the growing inequities that contribute to student...
Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 26
Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Volume 26 of The Annals begins with essays that address the challenge of maintaining human connections in a biological century; Philip Katz focuses on the human encounter between therapist and patient whereas Vivian Rakoff emphasizes the continuing identity of the healer throughout history. Papers...
Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents
Assessment, Intervention, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Although generally considered adult disorders, anxiety and depression are widespread among children and adolescents, affecting academic performance, social development, and long-term outcomes. They are also difficult to treat and, especially when they occur in tandem, tend to fly under the diagnostic...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
This handbook discusses early childhood special education (ECSE), with particular focus on evidence-based practices. Coverage spans core intervention areas in ECSE, such as literacy, motor skills, and social development as well as diverse contexts for services, including speech-language pathology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of school mental health (SMH) initiatives in rural areas in the United States. It offers clinical and administrative guidelines for innovative and effective programs addressing critical problems among rural youth and in areas where funding and resources...
Evidence-Based School Mental Health Services
Affect Education, Emotion Regulation Training, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
The challenges of providing mental health services to school children are numerous and diverse, ranging from staffing shortages to insufficient funding to family resistance to administrative indifference. Yet with the U.S. Surgeon General estimating that approximately 20% of young people display signs...
Girls at Risk
Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Until recently, boys and men provided the template by which problem behaviors in girls and women were measured. With the shift to studying female development and adjustment through female perspectives comes a need for knowledge of trajectories of at-risk girls’ behavior as they mature. Girls at...
Understanding Adoption
Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists...
by Cynthia Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Behaviour disorders are a direct result of damaged neurological processes, learn how to investigate and then resolve these dysfunctional pathways. Gun control is not the answer because it is reactionary. This innovative and proactive method changes the way you look at children with behavior problems....