Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Adolescent Medicine Today
A Guide to Caring for the Adolescent Patient
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Filled with short, succinct chapters written by experts in the field of Adolescent Medicine, this handbook covers the major health issues that practicing clinicians regularly encounter in the care of teens and young adults. From menstrual concerns and sexually transmitted infections, anxiety disorders...
Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders
What We Know and What We Don't Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Sponsored by the Adolescent Mental Health Initiative of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Trust, Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, Second Edition, provides a major update since the...
Playing Hard at Life
A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers who have survived the wars of the Middle...
Hidden Youth and the Virtual World
The process of social censure and empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Hidden Youth and the Virtual World examines the phenomenon of ‘hidden youth’ or hikikomori, as it is better known in Japan as well as Hong Kong. Exposure to the Internet has allowed these young persons to develop a high level of capability within the virtual world, however these are skills that...
Adolescent Stress
Causes and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Adolescent Stress concentrates on a range of major problems—those of a normal developmental nature as well as those of poor adaptation—identified in adolescents.
Learning to Live Together
Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
With a view to deepening our understanding of sources of hatred and prejudice, this book uses a developmental and evolutionary perspective to explore and explain the process by which our beliefs are conveyed to the youngest members of society. Discussing the psychological obstacles to peaceful relations...
Relationship Pathways
From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This book is designed to guide students through the latest developments of theory and research on relationships from adolescence to young adulthood. Unique to this text is a focus on relationship change across middle childhood into adolescence and across late adolescence into early adulthood. Experts...
The Stressed Years of Their Lives
Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what’s normal mental health and behavior, what’s not, and how to intervene before it’s too late.
“The title says it all...Chock full...
Adolescent Development
Longitudinal Research into the Self, Personal Relationships and Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This groundbreaking book provides students and researchers with a unique overview of the longitudinal study of the development of young people from the ages of 12 to 25. It offers a comprehensive introduction into the multiple theories on the development of the self, personal relationships and psychopathology...
The Teenage Brain
A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
A New York Times Bestseller
Renowned neurologist Dr. Frances E. Jensen offers a revolutionary look at the brains of teenagers, dispelling myths and offering practical advice for teens, parents and teachers.
Dr. Frances E. Jensen is chair of the department of neurology in the Perelman...
The Happy Kid Handbook
How to Raise Joyful Children in a Stressful World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
With all the parenting information out there and the constant pressure to be the “perfect” parent, it seems as if many parents have lost track of one very important piece of the parenting puzzle: raising happy kids.
Parenting today has gotten far too complicated. It’s never...
by Heidi C. Brescher
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
What You Need to Know When Your Child is Admitted to a Psychiatric Facility is a concise 5,300 word article which briefly covers standard practices and treatment in child and adolescent psych units. Also offered is information for parents about billing, follow up treatment, and communicating with...
Adolescent Romantic Relations and Sexual Behavior
Theory, Research, and Practical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry. This discovery may be related to the overwhelming evidence that adult romantic relationships are failing at alarming rates. Dramatic increases in the rates...
by Connie M. Tang
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Children and Crime offers a multidisciplinary and research-based approach to the study of child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency. Connie M. Tang first examines children as victims of maltreatment, exploring how developmental trauma and societal factors influence children’s behavior and psyche....