Child Development category: 2058 books
Mindful Parenting
A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply—and the quality of parenting suffers—when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children...
Adolescent Reputations and Risk
Developmental Trajectories to Delinquency
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2009
The news of teenagers and even younger children committing ever more serious and violent crimes continues to shock and baffle. The escalating psychological and social toll of youth crime is being paid by all – from victims to offenders to parents and siblings to teachers and to the community as...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have been increasingly diagnosed in recent years and carries with it far reaching social and financial implications. With this in mind, educators, physicians, and parents are searching for the best practices and most effective treatments. But because the symptoms of...
by Stephen E. Brock, Shane R. Jimerson, Robin L. Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed childhood behavioral disorder. Moreover, many students receiving special education assistance are reported to have ADHD. Children with ADHD may experience significant school adjustment difficulties and achievement problems. Problem behaviors associated with attention...
The Newborn as a Person
Enabling Healthy Infant Development Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Advances in the fields of psychology and psychiatry have bolstered the perspective that infants are not the passive recipients of sensory stimulation as it was once thought. Built on T. Berry Brazelton s paradigm-shifting work on the individuality of infants, this book provides relevant information...
EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children
Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
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This is the first book to provide a wide range of leading-edge, step-by-step strategies for clinicians using EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children with severe dysregulation of the affective system. Written by an author internationally known for her innovative work with children,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
This leading text and clinical guide offers best-practice recommendations for assessing a comprehensive array of child and adolescent mental health problems and health risks. Prominent authorities present evidence-based approaches that can be used in planning, implementing, and evaluating real-world...
by Murli Desai
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The Sourcebook introduces the theoretical and ideological foundation and methodological basis of Rights-based Direct Practice with Children. It starts with the methodology of participatory group workshops to facilitate learning of the content. The content draws linkages among the foundation of life...
The Prodigy's Cousin
The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
We all know the autistic genius stereotypes. The absentminded professor with untied shoelaces. The geeky Silicon Valley programmer who writes bulletproof code but can’t get a date. But there is another set of (tiny) geniuses whom you would never add to those ranks—child prodigies. We mostly...
Brave Parenting
A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
How do we build resilient children who can handle life's challenges?
As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controling a child’s entire...
by Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In the course of their researches for Mental Imagery in the Child (1971), the authors came to appreciate that action may be more conducive to the formation and conservation of images than is mere perception. This raised the problem of memory and its relation to intelligence, which they examine in...
by Jean Piaget
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book was first published in 1970.
by Jean Piaget
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This book was first published in 1969.
Growing Pains
Making Sense of Childhood A Psychiatrists Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
'A remarkable, powerful, tender and insightful book that will change lives' Stephen Fry
'A unique book . . . The stories [Shooter] tells are poignant and powerful testimonies to the resilience of the human spirit'
Marjorie Wallace, CBE
'Through fascinating case studies, Dr Mike Shooter explores...