Child Development category: 2058 books
The IQ Answer
Maximizing Your Child's Potential
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
In the bestselling The ADD Answer, Dr. Frank Lawlis provided thousands with valuable information about treatments for ADD and ADHD. Now he shares his expert advice on how to unleash the power of the mind. Through his groundbreaking thirteen-step method, Dr.Lawlis offers clear, easy-to-follow strategies...
What Will Happen to Me
Every Night, Approximately Three Million Children Go To Bed With A Parent In Pri
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
What is life like for a child who has a parent in prison? This book brings together photographic portraits of 30 children whose parents are incarcerated, along with their thoughts and reflections, in their own words. As Taylor says, "I want other kids to know that, even though your parents are locked...
Genetic Syndromes and Applied Behaviour Analysis
A Handbook for ABA Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This ground-breaking resource demonstrates how genetic knowledge can influence our understanding of a child's behaviour and therefore inform their behavioural support plan. With expert advice and clear instructions, it shows exactly how to go about incorporating syndrome knowledge into ABA practice...
Weaving the Cradle
Facilitating Groups to Promote Attunement and Bonding between Parents, Their Babies and Toddlers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expectant and new parents by helping them to become more attuned, sensitive and empathic towards their child.
Contributors bring together a range of...
Returning Home
Reconnecting with Our Childhoods
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home. Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them. Often serving several important psychological needs, these trips are not intended as visits with people from their past. Rather, those returning to their homes have a strong desire to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This volume focuses on context considerations in family-school partnership research. The book examines how cultural diversity, including differences in parenting (e.g., race, education, family history) and diverse school variables (e.g., location, population, organization,) can affect family-school...
Reactive Attachment Disorder
A Case-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A child’s close bond with mother, father, or guardian usually provides a foundation for trust in all future attachments. Children deprived of early and healthy dependency—who do not form normal attachment with their caregivers—may later suffer from Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD). This childhood...
Working Memory and Academic Learning
Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Equipping school and child psychologists, and neuropsychologists with critical information on the role of working memory in learning and achievement, Working Memory and Academic Learning offers guidance on assessment tools, interventions, and current evidence-based best practices. Its specific, step-by-step...
by Gilbert Kliman, MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Reflective Network Therapy describes a remarkably effective school-based treatment method that harnesses small social networks for the good of seriously emotionally disturbed preschoolers or those with autism spectrum disorders. The book provides an in-depth explanation of the method — including...
Bullying, Prejudice and School Performance
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity. Analyzing data gathered by surveys...
by Pierre Oléron, Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in English in 1969, the book opens with a chapter by Pierre Oléron on intellectual activities. These fall into three groups: inductive activities (the apprehension of laws, relations and concepts), reasoning and problem solving. It describes typical methods and essential results obtained...
Rêverie e trasformazioni tra madre e bambino
Esperienze di osservazione in famiglia e in ambiente ospedaliero e riabilitativo
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 21, 2017
L’osservazione in ambito psicoanalitico, oggetto di molte ricerche degli ultimi decenni, presenta una grande ricchezza di implicazioni conoscitive e cliniche. Da qui lo studio oggetto del volume, riferito al metodo dell’osservazione partecipe, enunciato ed elaborato da Bick, che intende valorizzare...
Emozioni e relazioni nella separazione genitoriale
Aspetti teorici e d'intervento
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Questo volume si concentra su una serie di analisi psicologiche dei processi di separazione familiare, focalizzando i diversi ambiti coinvolti. Oltre che a psicologi, psicoterapeuti, psichiatri e neuropsichiatri infantili, il testo può essere un utile strumento per: avvocati e magistrati che si occupano...
J'aide mon enfant hypersensible à s'épanouir
Du tout-petit à l'adolescent, comment apprivoiser son hypersensibilité
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2018
« Souvenons-nous donc, en toutes circonstances, de prendre le temps de rassurer, de réconforter, de soutenir et d'encourager l'enfant, pour l'accompagner dans sa croissance humaine. Il s'agit d'accueillir la sensibilité de chaque enfant, comme elle vient, comme elle est, là dans l'instant, pour...