Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
by Paris S. Strom, Robert D. Strom
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The tools of communication technology have transformed socialization and education of adolescents. They are the first generation to be growing up with the Internet, cell phones, iPods, computers, electronic hand helds and satellite television. Building friendships and social networks are common experiences...
Assessment of Trauma in Youths
Understanding issues of age, complexity, and associated variables
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Assessment of Trauma in Youths: Understanding issues of age, complexity, and associated variables is a collection of articles by well-known specialists in the field of childhood trauma. The articles describe developmental issues in addition to others that are important to the assessment of trauma-exposed...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In this volume and its companion Adolescence: The Crises of Adjustment, originally published in 1975, members of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic and of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, together with other leading experts on the subject, present a unique study of adolescence.
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Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents
Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Severe Emotional Disturbance in Children and Adolescents conveys the experiences of severely emotionally disturbed children in detailed accounts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and explores the life and death struggles against severe self-harm to body and mind by the most distressed sections of adolescents....
Pause and Reset
A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Overcoming Problems with Gaming
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
Over 90% of children and adolescents play electronic or computerized games, and 25% play for three hours a day or even longer. Although some degree of video game playing is normal, excessive playing can negatively impact schoolwork, kids' social lives, and even their health. Pause and Reset is aimed...
A Genealogy of Puberty Science
Monsters, Abnormals, and Everyone Else
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
A Genealogy of Puberty Science exploresthe modern invention of puberty as a scientific object. Drawing on Foucault’s genealogical analytic, Pinto and Macleod trace the birth of puberty science in the early 1800s and follow its expansion and shifting discursive frameworks over the course of two centuries.
Offering...
De La guerre des boutons à Harry Potter
Un siècle d'évolution de l'espace-temps des adolescents
Language: French
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Quels sont les impacts psychologiques et sociologiques de La Guerre des boutons et d'Harry Potter ?
Relisant le roman de Pergaud (1906) et le best-seller de Rowling (1997), les auteurs montrent l'évolution, depuis un siècle, de l'univers des adolescents, dans leur structuration du temps et...
by Brigitte Pujos
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2010
L'adulte peut aider l'enfant à affronter la vie de façon positive. Il lui suffit de cultiver détermination et ouverture d'esprit. Parents et éducateurs doivent être à l'écoute, mais encore faut-il que cette écoute leur permette de mieux comprendre l'enfant et leur ôte l'envie de critiquer,...
Les psy-trucs pour les préados de 9 à 12 ans
Les psy-trucs pour les préados de 9 à 12 ans
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2011
• Mon enfant est-il accro à la technologie (ordinateur, jeux vidéo, téléphone cellulaire, etc.) ?
• Comment savoir si mon préadolescent est victime d'intimidation ?
• À quel âge devrais-je commencer à lui donner de l'argent de poche ?
• Quels changements importants surviennent au début...
Mon préadolescent est impoli et irrespectueux
Les psy-trucs pour les préados de 9 à 12 ans
Language: French
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Un outil indispensable pour apprendre à mieux gérer le manque de respect et l'impolitesse chez les préadolescents, à leur inculquer des notions de savoir-vivre et à les faire respecter. Suzanne Vallières livre des psy-trucs et des clés de compréhension qui faciliteront la vie des parents et démystifieront certaines notions relatives à l'évolution des enfants.
Parents and Children Communicating with Society
Managing Relationships Outside of the Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2010
The volume opens a new frontier in parent-child communication research as it brings together veteran researchers and newcomers to explore the communication of parents and children as they create relationships outside the family. The chapters herein examine communication processes and problems of parents...
Back to Normal
Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions.
In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis. Current...
by Marilyn Price-Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Youth volunteerism and civic engagement has changed in America. While the numbers of young people who volunteer have risen substantially, recent studies show that very few find meaning and purpose through serving their communities. For many, volunteerism has become just another school requirement that...
Parenting in Transracial Adoption: Real Questions and Real Answers
Real Questions and Real Answers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children identified as being of a different race, this book draws from real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after transracial adoption. Its goal: to help adoptive parents (and child welfare...