Child Development category: 2058 books
Being at Your Best When Your Kids Are at Their Worst
Practical Compassion in Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
A practical, meditative approach that can be used in the moment to help you stay calm and balanced when your child's behavior is pushing you to your limit--by the popular author of Simplicity Parenting.
When children are at their most difficult and challenging situations arise, how can we react...
Connected Parenting
Set Loving Limits and Build Strong Bonds with Your Child for Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Read Jennifer Kolari's posts on the Penguin Blog.
A groundbreaking, counterintuitive parenting approach to create deep, empathic bonds with challenging children
A child and family therapist for more than twenty years, Jennifer Kolari began her career working with children who suffer...
by Dana Sherman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Bully Games is a concise, practical handbook that will provide you with the tips and strategies you need to BullyProof your child. A powerful resource guide, Bully Games, will help prevent your child from becoming a victim. Role playing scenarios are included for you and your child to start practicing the BullyProof strategies. A must read for all parents!
Same-Sex Marriage and Children
A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible procreation" and child welfare. Carlos A....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Every chapter has been updated to reflect current thought and research in the field. Chapters devoted to specialized tests in neuropsychology have been updated to reflect new editions of these popular instruments. Special topic chapters have been added such as working in pediatric coma rehabilitation,...
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters...
ParentSpeak
What's Wrong with How We Talk to Our Children--and What to Say Instead
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
A provocative guide to the hidden dangers of “parentspeak”—those seemingly innocent phrases parents use when speaking to their young children.
Imagine if every time you praise your child with “Good job!” you’re actually doing harm? Or that urging a child to say “Can you say thank...
Bullying
Brilliant ideas for keeping your child safe and happy
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Bullying behaviour comes in many shapes and sizes, and being bullied in childhood can have lifelong effects. Recent UK research indicates that 1 in 4 primary school children and 1 in 10 secondary school children are bullied at least once a term. Bullying makes children lonely, unhappy and frightened....
Spare the Child
The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. These words provided generations of American Christians with the justification for physically disciplining their children, in ways that range from spankings to brutal beatings. This learned and deeply disturbing...
Preventing Child Maltreatment
Community Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Many child abuse prevention programs have targeted factors within the family, such as parenting skills. This book describes the next wave of prevention: the promotion of safer, healthier childrearing environments in entire communities. The contributors are leading authorities who illuminate how contextual...
Attach Me if You Can
How to help children attach, feel safe and ultimately act lovable
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Paul Tournier stated: “At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.” In 1975 when I started seeing children in therapy at the Grand Rapids Child Guidance Clinic in Grand Rapids, Michigan it seemed like the major problems...
Theraplay
Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this treatment method in its traditional format of individual child and parent sessions. Its simple, action-oriented,...
Why isn't my child talking?
The story of one mother's journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
All kids develop differently and at their own pace. But what if the child is two or three and not saying words? What if everyone said not to worry…that the kid would talk when they were ready?
Lisa Chen went through this exact issue with her daughter. In light of everyone telling her differently,...
by James Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Conflict with one's children or students can turn a great day into a miserable one. But avoiding necessary confrontation and the difficulty it can bring isn't the answer, either. What's needed is a guide, a master script, for discussing troublesome issues with a child or teen in a way...