Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Play Therapy
A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This authoritative work brings together leading play therapists to describe state-of-the-art clinical approaches and applications. The book explains major theoretical frameworks and summarizes the contemporary play therapy research base, including compelling findings from neuroscience. Contributors...
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized. This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe effective treatment approaches in this key area. The book begins by providing guiding principles for...
The Handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy
Practical Guidelines for Child Therapists
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2006
This book sets out a clear theoretical framework for Gestalt Play Therapy, giving examples of questions the therapists might ask the child at certain stages, and offering the whole gamut of play therapy and travelling through the therapeutic journey.'
- Dramatherapy
This book is an introduction...
Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach
Music Therapy at a Child Development Centre
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach, Amelia Oldfield explains how her approach to music therapy sessions establishes a constructive musical dialogue with children that emphasises positive experiences - these establish trust and allow feelings to be expressed through music.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Providing a complete overview of art therapy, from theory and research to practical applications, this is the definitive handbook in the field. Leading practitioners demonstrate the nuts and bolts of arts-based intervention with children, adults, families, couples, and groups dealing with a wide range...
The Transition to Adulthood and Family Relations
An Intergenerational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the transition into adulthood was marked by a clear and irreversible change in condition, we are now seeing a continuance in the role and influence of the...
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Child Trauma and Abuse
A Step-by-Step Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
The effects of trauma and abuse on children can be long-lasting, acute and damaging. Evidence suggests that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a highly effective form of psychotherapy to help children to overcome these effects.
This book uses an evidence-based CBT treatment model to assist...
Children Behaving Badly?
Peer Violence Between Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Children Behaving Badly? is the first publication to directly address the complexity of peer violence from a range of disciplines and perspectives.
Provides important insights into theoretical understanding of the issue and produces significant and far reaching implications for policy and practice...
by Derek Kirton
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
`A key text in the exploration of social, political and historical changes around child social care. It offers a broad overview of key themes in all areas and aspects of child care within the UK. It is an essential resource for students studying the degree in social work and will support and encourage...
Child's Play
Developmental and Applied
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Originally published in 1984, a major purpose of this book was to bring together in a single volume, work that reflects the wide range of interests that social and behavioural scientists have in play, development and the environment. The intent of the book was to refine and extend concepts and methodologies...
Expository Discourse in Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Development and Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked...
Interventions for Reading Problems, Second Edition
Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure. Step-by-step strategies target key areas of literacy development: phonological awareness, fluency,...
Playful Awakening
Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Playfulness has the power to reconnect us with our sense of self, and help us achieve growth and self-fulfilment.
The author of this wide-ranging book explores the universal significance of play in the pursuit of happiness and authenticity. Providing a brief overview of the role of play in...