Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
The First Years Last Forever
Parental guide to early childhood behavior and development
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
In this thought-provoking book, the author examines the behavior of young children in a developmental context, taking into consideration the changes as young children grow and develop. The book will show parents and caregivers ways to deal with the kids in the various stages of their life, starting from...
by Stacey S Horn, Martin D Ruck, Lynn S Liben
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
The first of two volumes in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues focuses on conceptual issues, definitions, and critical concepts relevant to equity and justice for the developmental sciences. This...
Stolen Child
A Mother's Journey to Rescue Her Son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
A year in the desperate life of a boy transformed by OCD from a bright ten-year-old into a stranger in his own skin.
Although Laurie Gough was an intrepid traveller who had explored wild, far-off reaches of the globe, the journey she and her family took in their own home in their small Quebec...
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their...
Discipline without Damage
How to Get Your Kids to Behave Without Messing Them Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
A child psychologist equips parents with tools to manage behavioral issues more effectively while supporting their child’s healthy, natural development.
When your child is threatening a meltdown in the grocery aisle, is it really possible to keep your cool, correct the behavior, and reinforce...
How Toddlers Thrive
What Parents Can Do Today for Children Ages 2-5 to Plant the Seeds of Lifelong Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Dr. Tovah Klein, called “the toddler whisperer” on Good Morning America, has penned “a parenting milestone” (Dr. Harvey Rotbart, No Regrets Parenting) with How Toddlers Thrive, which shows parents of children ages two to five how to harness the singular power of the toddler mind during what...
For Your Own Good
Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.
With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language,...
Shelter From The Storm
Caring For A Child With A Life-threatening Condition
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
critically ill and unlikely to survive. A recent Harvard University study on pediatric end-of-life care has shown that the medical community is failing such children and their families. Indeed, in their effort to be ever-hopeful and cure-oriented in the face of a child's terminal illness, they neglect...
Positive Discipline A-Z
1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
As a parent, you face one of the most challenging—and rewarding—roles of your life. No matter how much you love your child, there will still be moments filled with anger, frustration, and, at times, desperation. What do you do? Over the years, millions of parents just like you have come to trust...
Just Tell Me What to Say
Simple Scripts for Perplexed Parents
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Parents are often perplexed by their children's typical behaviors and inevitable questions. This down-to-earth guide provides "Tips and Scripts" for handling everything from sibling rivalry and the food wars to questions about death, divorce, sex, and "whyyyy?" Betsy Brown Braun...
Positive Parenting for Bipolar Kids
How to Identify, Treat, Manage, and Rise to the Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The Definitive Resource on How to Identify, Treat, and Live with a Bipolar Child
More than three million American children suffer from some form of bipolar disorder, a life-impairing illness that can cause wild mood swings and even episodes of rage. But as a parent, can you tell the difference...
by D.w. Winnicott
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
This delightful book presents a selection of D. W. Winnicott's best writing about children. The remarkable, enduring essays from Babies and Their Mothers and Talking to Parents are here combined with several hard-to-find gems of insight into the world of the child. Each piece was written for a wide...
Beyond Intelligence
Secrets for Raising Happily Productive Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
From two internationally recognized experts in the field of gifted education comes this timely exploration of how best to nurture a child’s unique gifts, and set them on a path to a happily productive life — in school and beyond.
What is intelligence? Is it really a have or have not proposition,...
by David Elkind
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2009
"David Elkind [is] one of psychology's leading lights."--Washington Post
With the first edition of The Hurried Child, David Elkind emerged as the voice of parenting reason, calling our attention to the crippling effects of hurrying our children through life. He showed that by blurring...