Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Working with High-Risk Adolescents
A Collaborative Strengths-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This innovative book focuses on helping high-risk adolescents and their families rapidly resolve long-standing difficulties. Matthew D. Selekman spells out a range of solution-focused strategies and other techniques, illustrating their implementation with vivid case examples. His approach augments...
The Youth Development Handbook
Coming of Age in American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
What are the types of environments in which youth thrive? How do we cultivate such environments to promote optimal development and positive behavior in youth? The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities provides youth and development practitioners access to current theory...
The Bonsai Child
Why modern parenting limits children's potential and practical strategies to turn it around
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Modern parenting is in crisis. Parents put more time and effort into raising their children than ever before, but children’s self-esteem, resilience and wellbeing don’t appear to be improving.
In her work as a clinical psychologist and researcher, Dr Judith Locke sees a disturbing link...
Child Psychotherapy
Integrating Developmental Theory into Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
All too often children are diagnosed and medicated without the consideration that their symptoms may actually be a healthy response to stressful life events. This integrative guide for mental health practitioners who work with children underscores the importance of considering the etiology of a child's...
Digital Generations
Children, Young People, and the New Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Computer games, the Internet, and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people, but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke,...
Why Good Kids Act Cruel
The Hidden Truth about the Pre-Teen Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Why do many good children treat one another so badly?
This is a question parents eventually face and most start thinking about as their children prepare for high school. But the hard truth is, high school is too late. The pre-teen years are actually when it begins, when the cruelty is even worse,...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
There is mounting interest in services to strengthen families and, if possible, to keep them together, preventing unnecessary and costly out-of-home placements. Unfortunately, although these programs are proliferating throughout the country, many are developing without the benefit of existing historical,...
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for At-Risk Adolescents
A Practitioner's Guide to Treating Challenging Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Adolescents are more likely than any other age groups to engage in behaviors that contribute to injuries, violence, unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, and reckless alcohol, tobacco, and drug use. At-risk adolescents may also exhibit signs of moodiness, aggression, and even self-injury,...
Parenting Young Athletes
Developing Champions in Sports and Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Parenting Young Athletes tells readers exactly how to enhance the well-being of their children, both on and off the athletic field/court. The latest information on child development, sport psychology, and sports medicine is translated into a practical “how-to” guide that assists parents in assuring...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology...
by George McCloskey, Lisa A. Perkins, Bob Van Diviner
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
In Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties, McCloskey, Perkins, and Diviner provide a unique blend of theory, research, and practice that offers clinicians an overarching framework for the concept of executive functions (EFs) in educational settings. The conceptual model of...
BAM! Boys Advocacy and Mentoring
A Leader’s Guide to Facilitating Strengths-Based Groups for Boys - Helping Boys Make Better Contact by Making Better Contact with Them
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Over the past decade, our understanding of the fundamental differences in child development, behavior, and emotional maturity between boys and girls has increased dramatically, and as a result, many gender-specific interventions and support programs have been developed to meet the needs of parents,...
Youth & Drugs and Mental Health
A Resource for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2004
When ADHD, depression, anxiety and conduct and learning disorders emerge in childhood, they increase the risk that a young person may later develop substance use problems. In addition, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia tend to appear during adolescence and young adulthood -- about the same time that...