Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Clinical and Educational Child Psychology
An Ecological-Transactional Approach to Understanding Child Problems and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Clinical and Educational Child Psychology: An Ecological-Transactional Approach to Developmental Problems and Interventions explores developmental milestones in early childhood and adolescence and provides intervention strategies in both clinical and educational contexts.
Currently one of the...
The Practitioner's Guide to Child Art Therapy
Fostering Creativity and Relational Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Even in the face of challenging conditions, art therapy treatment offers meaningful opportunities for growth. It’s not always easy, though, to navigate the complex interplay of art processes, relational states, and developmental theories. For any clinician looking for guidance on the ins and outs...
by Caroline Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in the field. Rather than just describing what...
Child Psychotherapy, War and the Normal Child
Selected Papers of Margaret Lowenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Essential reading for anyone those involved in the psychology of children, this work details how Margaret Lowenfeld developed new forms of communication with children—primarily through the use of play and specifically through sand play—allowing psychotherapists to locate and address behavioral problems resulting from trauma, especially as from the result of war.
Teach Your Child to Sleep
Solving Sleep Problems from Newborn Through Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The highly-acclaimed Millpond Children's Sleep Clinic has a 97 per cent success rate in resolving children's sleep problems. Discover how to get your baby or child to settle easily and sleep through the night with step-by-step advice that gets right to the heart of the problem.
From your child...
Parent-Focused Child Therapy
Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Function
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems. Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions is an edited collection, drawing from leading...
Mental Health in Children and Young People
Spotting Symptoms and Seeking Help Early
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
"I'm worried that my child is depressed and anxious."
"I'm worried that my child has an eating disorder."
"I'm worried about drugs."
Mental health difficulties affect about 1 in 10 children and young people, ranging from fears, phobias and panic attacks to obsessions,...
by Marilyn Wedge
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioral problems without stigmatizing diagnoses.
With more than four million American children diagnosed with ADHD and other psychiatric disorders, taking a child to a psychiatrist is as...
Raising a Secure Child
How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book presents an integrated and coordinated framework for assessing developmental, psychological, and behavioral disorders in early childhood. Expert contributors advocate for natural-environment methods in addition to standardized measures in assessing academic and social skills as well as age-specific...
by Juan Santos
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This practical and compassionate book provides step-by-step recommendations for parents on how to effectively communicate with your child. The author provides case studies that speak directly to Hispanic families dealing with parent-child issues. Parents are provided with suggestions and fresh insights...
Home Visitation Programs
Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This timely resource analyzes home visits as a primary intervention for at-risk families with infants and young children and details innovative programs for home service delivery. Focusing on family violence, mental illness and alcohol and substance abuse as major challenges to child development,...
Vulnerable Children
Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans. In areas of the world torn by poverty, disease, and war, millions of children are invisible victims, deprived of home, family, and basic human rights. Their chances for a stable adult life are extremely slim.
The powerful interdisciplinary...
Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right
Selected Case Law on State Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual...