Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
by Denyse Beaudet Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Denyse Beaudet, a Jungian developmental psychologist for more than 25 years, has helped countless parents understand their children's dreaming lives. By engaging parents in their children's dreamworld, Dreamguider:Increases children's comfort with nighttime and their dreamsHelps parents gain insight...
Connected Parenting
Set Loving Limits and Build Strong Bonds with Your Child for Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
Read Jennifer Kolari's posts on the Penguin Blog.
A groundbreaking, counterintuitive parenting approach to create deep, empathic bonds with challenging children
A child and family therapist for more than twenty years, Jennifer Kolari began her career working with children who suffer...
by Michael O'Loughlin, Ana Archangelo, Derek Bunyard
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2012
With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings in schools. Psychodynamic Perspectives on Working with Children, Families, and Schools is designed for students and professionals who are interested in...
by Dana Sherman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Bully Games is a concise, practical handbook that will provide you with the tips and strategies you need to BullyProof your child. A powerful resource guide, Bully Games, will help prevent your child from becoming a victim. Role playing scenarios are included for you and your child to start practicing the BullyProof strategies. A must read for all parents!
What Children Need to Be Happy, Confident and Successful
Step by Step Positive Psychology to Help Children Flourish
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
What makes children happy, confident and successful? How can you help a child to flourish? Their environment is important, but the real difference is in your hands – every adult has the tools to help a child achieve psychological wellbeing.
This book provides a practical model for helping...
by Mary Baginsky, Felicity Fletcher-Campbell, William Baginsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.
The contributors, who are all experts in the field of child protection, put the potentially daunting...
Same-Sex Marriage and Children
A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible procreation" and child welfare. Carlos A....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Every chapter has been updated to reflect current thought and research in the field. Chapters devoted to specialized tests in neuropsychology have been updated to reflect new editions of these popular instruments. Special topic chapters have been added such as working in pediatric coma rehabilitation,...
Trauma Through a Child's Eyes
Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—what parents, educators, and health professionals can do.
Trauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters...
Learning from Picturebooks
Perspectives from child development and literacy studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children’s literature. Being highly complex aesthetic products, their use is deeply embedded in specific situations of joint attention between a caregiver and a...
by Maricela Correa-Chávez, Rebeca Mejía-Arauz, Barbara Rogoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond...
ParentSpeak
What's Wrong with How We Talk to Our Children--and What to Say Instead
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
A provocative guide to the hidden dangers of “parentspeak”—those seemingly innocent phrases parents use when speaking to their young children.
Imagine if every time you praise your child with “Good job!” you’re actually doing harm? Or that urging a child to say “Can you say thank...
Creative Centers and Homes
Infant Care, Planning and Developing Family Day Care, and Approaches to Designing and Creating the Child's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Creative Centers and Homes views childcare as an integral, vital, and comprehensive service for all families; infant care, family homes and centers; focusing on specific required services including licensing, location, extent of services, design and environment for learning and playing for young children,...
by Jane Barlow, Anita Schrader
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more likely to experience a range of problems as adults including depression, substance misuse and eating disorders....