Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The dynamic systems approach is a rapidly expanding advancement in the study of developmental research, particularly in the domain of adolescent development. It provides a unique way of examining the subject, and this innovative study of developmental processes helps social scientists to translate...
The Therapeutic Powers of Play
20 Core Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
"Focusing on the specific ingredients that activate clinical change, this book is enhanced by current research, more ample scope, and an array of contributions in contemporary and relevant topic areas. It is full of inspiration, direction, and grounding. This is a stunning contribution to the field...
Narrative Therapies with Children and Their Families
A Practitioner's Guide to Concepts and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Narrative Therapies with Children and their Families introduces and develops the principles of narrative approaches to systemic therapeutic work, and shows how they can provide a powerful framework for engaging troubled children and their families. Written by eminent and leading clinicians, known...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Integration of Cognitive, Neuropsychological, and Psychodynamic Perspectives in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
For many researchers, clinicians, teachers, patients, and family members, the discourse on ADHD has been occurring in silos. Traditional ADHD camps are organized primarily in terms of neurological and cognitive perspectives and to a lesser extent psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspectives. Those with...
by Thomas Jacobs, James Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
Bullying has no higher price than the self-inflicted death of a tormented child or teen. Why is this happening, and what can be done about it? Thomas Jacobs, a retired juvenile court judge, and James Sutton, a child and adolescent psychologist, combine their expertise and decades of experience into...
by Mary Pipher, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
**#1 New York Times Bestseller
The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls?**
As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were...
Hurry Down Sunshine
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
HURRY DOWN SUNSHINE TELLS THE STORY OF THE extraordinary summer when, at the age of fifteen, Michael Greenberg’s daughter was struck mad. It begins with Sally’s visionary crack-up on the streets of Greenwich Village, and continues, among other places, in the out-of-time world of a Manhattan psychiatric...
The Curse of the Good Girl
Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Bestselling author of Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons exposes the myth of the Good Girl, freeing girls from its impossible standards and encouraging them to embrace their real selves
In The Curse of the Good Girl, bestselling author Rachel Simmons argues that in lionizing the Good Girl we are...
Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome
Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal through the Art of Play
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal Through the Art of Play is for the mental health professional (psychologist, licensed counselor, licensed social worker) who utilizes play therapy and who works with children and adolescents diagnosed with...
Parents and Digital Technology
How to Raise the Connected Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Children today are digital natives, growing up in an age where social media and online communication is the norm. This book is an indispensable guide for parents who may feel they are struggling to keep up, addressing the issues that young people and their families face in the world of modern technology....
Working with Adolescents
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
A state-of-the-art practitioner resource and course text, this book provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and spells out effective ways to help teens who are having difficulties. The authors illuminate protective and risk factors in the many contexts of adolescents' lives, from individual...
Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1999
This comprehensive, practical resource provides specific strategies for counsellors working with boys and male adolescents from different cultural backgrounds.
The first part examines how psychological, career and athletic development of boys is shaped by a complex interaction of biological,...
De Blanche-Neige à Harry Potter, des histoires pour rebondir
La résilience en questions
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Les contes de fées au service de la (re)construction de soi
Ce livre, on pourrait – ou plutôt, on devrait – le mettre entre toutes les mains. À travers l’analyse des contes de fées, sous la forme de dialogues vrais avec de jeunes ados de 13 ans, il nous fait entrer, par une porte...
Counseling Troubled Boys
A Guidebook for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A practical tool...