Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Pathways Through Adolescence
individual Development in Relation To Social Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Adolescent researchers are increasingly aware that they must examine development both across time and across context. To do so, however, requires new conceptualizations and methodological approaches to the study of development, including attention to the pathways young people choose in adolescence...
by James Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Conflict with one's children or students can turn a great day into a miserable one. But avoiding necessary confrontation and the difficulty it can bring isn't the answer, either. What's needed is a guide, a master script, for discussing troublesome issues with a child or teen in a way...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Volume 37 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 8 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including the role of dyadic communication in infant social-cognitive...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This highly respected reference and text on developmental psychopathology brings together leading authorities on the psychological, biological, and social-contextual determinants of child and adolescent problems. The comprehensive introductory chapter provides a state-of-the-art developmental--systems...
Adolescent Suicide
Recognition, Treatment, and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Inform yourself with thorough and accurate knowledge about the incidence of adolescent suicide. Adolescent Suicide serves to correct erroneous conceptions--held by the public and professionals--about the nature of suicidal behavior among the young, thereby promoting the opportunity for more prompt...
Facilitating Developmental Attachment
The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
This book shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments. In particular, it addresses the emotional difficulties of many of the foster and adopted children living in our country who are unable to form secure attachments. Traditional interventions,...
The Power of Positive Parenting
Transforming the Lives of Children, Parents, and Communities Using the Triple P System
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Safe, nurturing, and positive parent-child interactions lay the foundations for healthy child development. How children are raised in their early years and beyond affects many different aspects of their lives, including brain development, language, social skills, emotional regulation, mental and physical...
Trafficked Young People
Breaking the Wall of Silence
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call for...
Developmental Assessment of the School-Aged Child with Developmental Disabilities
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems who are referred to mental health services for assessment often have undiagnosed mild learning disabilities, and this guide is written for clinicians involved in making such assessments.
It provides full guidance on common...
by Janette B. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 54 is the latest release in this classic resource on the field of developmental psychology. Chapters highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology, with this release covering topics such as the Social-Interactive...
International Handbook of Psychological Well-Being in Children and Adolescents
Bridging the Gaps Between Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
This handbook addresses universal developmental and cultural factors contributing to child and adolescent mental health and well-being across the globe. It examines sociocultural contexts of development and identifies children's and adolescents' perspectives as critical to understanding and promoting...
by Kevin T. Kalikow MD
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
A popular guide for consumers about all the psychiatric drugs used with kids.
Arguments abound about whether psychiatric medicines are over- or underprescribed, even as their use in childhood and adolescence has become commonplace. Knowing how various medicines work, their side effects and...
Hope for Children of Trauma
An international perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International Perspective synthesizes all the existing evidence, policy and practice from around the world for children and youth who have experienced different forms of complex trauma – such as abuse, neglect and war violence – and also presents a real advance...
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting
Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children’s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more...