Child Development category: 2058 books
by Sharon L. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Modeled on the author's bestselling Therapist’s Guide to Clinical Intervention, this new book on child clinical intervention presents much of the material in outline or bullet point format, allowing easy understanding of complex material for the busy therapist. This clinician’s guide to diagnosing...
Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 2
Logical Inference: Underlying Operations
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Originally published in 1974, the second volume of four (Logical Inference: Underlying Operations) provides a process-model for the solution of certain syllogistic reasoning problems. Testable predictions of the model are easily derived, and the available evidence supports the model’s description...
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults
Changing Patterns in Modern Love, Loss, and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults explores the rich, multi-layered parent-child interactions that unfold during the period of separation and launching. While this is a necessary transitional time, parents inevitably experience feelings of loss and longing for the past...
Assessment and Intervention with Children and Adolescents Who Misuse Fire
Practitioner Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
It's surprisingly common for children and adolescents to play with fire and to actually set fires. A single fire has the potential to cause a cascade of serious consequences to children, families, and their community, sometimes with devastating impact. Yet, there is limited practical information and...
by Monita Leavitt
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book is a guide to help teachers, parents, guidance counselors and other stakeholders understand the importance of intervention for gifted children and to become an advocate for those individuals who are developmentally advanced. The reader becomes engaged in the analogy of a three part airplane...
by Scott A. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
The Fifth Edition of Scott A. Miller’s classic Developmental Research Methods presents an overview of methods to prepare students to carry out, report on, and evaluate research on human development across the lifespan. The book explores every step in the research process, from the initial concept...
Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives
A Handbook for Professionals in Applied Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Executive Functions in Children's Everyday Lives captures the diversity and complexity of the executive system that underlies children's everyday life experiences. Acquisition of executive functions, such as interpreting communication cues and the perspectives of others, is foundational to and a function...
Children's Play
Research Developments and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1986, in this compendium of recent research on children’s play, acknowledged experts review the latest methodologies and ideas, examine salient problems, and reveal the application of current knowledge in several areas of professional practice at the time. Exciting new results...
Revealing the Inner World of Traumatised Children and Young People
An Attachment-Informed Model for Assessing Emotional Needs and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Bringing together the latest research and theory about a child's inner world and the impact of the world around them, this is a guide to understanding and responding to the emotional needs of traumatised children.
Founded on the principle that traumatised children do not have a secure sense...
I Want It Now
Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In today's world of mega-stores and unbridled materialism, people are spending more money than ever in an attempt to find fulfillment in themselves-and children are no exception. In her compelling and inspiring exploration of kids and consumerism, Donna Bee-Gates helps us all understand how a culture...
Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms
The SPRinG Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
This book offers a challenge to traditional approaches to classroom teaching and pedagogy. The SPRinG (Social Pedagogic Research into Groupwork) project, part of a larger research programme on teaching and learning funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), was developed to enhance...
by Frances Ricks, Jennifer Charlesworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Practitioners are faced with the complexity of health and social service work and are bombarded with policy directives, quick-fix prescriptions, new fads, and conflicting opinions. Emergent Practice Planning supports practitioners in working with the complexity of issues and developing an integrated...
Piaget and His School
A Reader in Developmental Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Inhelder in her introduction. The reason for this unity is that explanatory adequacy can be attained only by exploring the formative and constructive aspects of development. To explain a psychologic reaction or a cognitive mechanism (at all levels, including that of scientific thought) is not simply...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
This book draws on contemporary theory and recent findings to provide researchers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students with essential resources, allowing them to better understand and support children, youth and adults with autism and significant communication impairments.
The...