Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
The Well-Being of America's Children
Developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
In 1998, the Foundation for Child Development (FCD) provided Kenneth Land a grant to explore the feasibility of producing the first national composite index of the status of American children that would chart changes in their well-being over time. Important questions needed to be answered: was it...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book presents penetrating observations by six authorities on the personality development of children for the enlightenment of parents, teachers, and others who have a vital interest in children.In the first paper, the late Harold E. Jones, a professor of psychology and the director of the Institute...
A Child's Mind
How Children Learn During the Critical Years from Birth to Age Five Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Originally published in 1970, parents and teachers were beginning to realise how very much earlier in life human intelligence develops than was previously thought. A child’s experience in its pre-school years largely determines its future academic progress; and environment and parental influence...
Make Your Own Preschool Games
A Personalized Play And Learn Program
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Nearly 90% of all brain growth occurs in the first five years of life. Parents can capitalize on this impressionable time by improving and varying the sights, sounds, and smells in a child's immediate surroundings. With this eminently practical guide in hand, parents can actively promote the motor,...
The Circle of Security Intervention
Enhancing Attachment in Early Parent-Child Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young children's emotional needs (ages 0-5), this is the first comprehensive presentation of the Circle of Security (COS) intervention. The book lucidly explains the conceptual...
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child
Healing through Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child: Healing through Intervention approaches trauma from transgenerational perspectives that go back to the early colonization of Australia, and describes what that event has historically meant for the country’s Aboriginal population and its...
It Takes a Child to Raise a Parent
Stories of Evolving Child and Parent Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
needy ourselves: as adults and parents, we find that we have unresolved raising issues, basic needs that were not met in our childhoods. Our needs and memories echo and influence many of the parenting decisions we make, even though we’re unaware of those influences at times.
connecting us to some...
Containment and Reciprocity
Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Child Development Research for Work with Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2007
Containment and Reciprocity shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and their families. Using extracts of mother/child and therapist/child interactions, Hazel Douglas explores,...
by C.W. Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Originally published in 1940, this book was addressed to students of the psychology of childhood and to parents and teachers who were trying to get from psychology some light on problems of discipline and of the difficult child. It includes critical discussions of some ideas which were gaining widespread...
Made for Life (PLE: Emotion)
Coping, Competence and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Originally published in 1980, this title considers the relationship between feeling able to cope and being able to learn – that is, the interdependence of affect and cognition in children under five. It argues that in order to make full use of his cognitive capacities the child must first develop...
by Richard M. Lerner, Michael E. Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The essential reference for human development theory, updated and reconceptualized
The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to which all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now in its Seventh Edition, the Handbook...
Child Language
Acquisition and Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
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This is the best book on the market for taking students from ‘how children acquire their first language’ to the point where
they can engage with key debates and current research in the field of child language. No background...
When Your Child Needs Help
A Parent's Guide to Therapy for Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
One of America's top child psychologists provides reassuring advice for parents whose children are experiencing emotional or developmental problems. Here is the essential guide for every parent who is struggling to distinguish typical growing pains from more serious problems.
Child Development
An Active Learning Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In the Third Edition of the topically organized Child Development: An Active Learning Approach, authors Laura E. Levine and Joyce A. Munsch invite students to take an active journey toward understanding the latest findings from the field of child development. Using robust pedagogical tools built into...