Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Adolescence
Psychotherapy and the Emergent Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Many therapists can attest to the fact that adolescents can be difficult and frustating clients-problems are seldom well defined, clearly delineated symptoms are more exception than the rule, and troubling situations often involve the entire family.
Gestalt therapist Mark McConville draws...
Adolescent Violence in the Home
Restorative Approaches to Building Healthy, Respectful Family Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Adolescent Violence in the Home examines a form of violence that has a profound impact on families but is often overlooked and frequently misunderstood: teen aggression and violence toward members of their family—especially parents. Violence in adolescents is often seen as the result of a mental-health...
by Inge Seiffge-Krenke
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Unique and comprehensive, this volume integrates the most updated theory and research relating to adolescent coping and its determinants. This book is the result of the author's long interest in, and study of, stress, coping, and relationships in adolescence. It begins with an overview of research...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled “P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes.
This pioneer project was conducted in Hong...
Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire
What Kids Need to Talk About
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Learn how to better clinically serve risky adolescents-from the clients themselves!
Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About explores the research on adolescent behavior culled from the answers to a clinician-designed intake...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Of the 1.2 billion adolescents in the world today, 90% live in low- and middle-income countries. These adolescents face many challenges in their lives. Enrollment in secondary schools is still low in many parts of the world, with illiteracy rates approaching 30% in the least developed countries. Further,...
Clinician's Guide to the Assessment Checklist Series
Specialized mental health measures for children in care
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Assessment Checklist series, created by Michael Tarren-Sweeney, provides the world’s first standardised caregiver-report measures of a range of attachment- and trauma-related mental health difficulties experienced amongst children growing up in foster, adoptive, kinship and residential care....
by Kerry Kelly Novick, Jack Novick
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Working With Parents Makes Therapy Work demonstrates the crucial role of parent work in child and adolescent therapy. The Novicks suggest that restoring the parent-child relationship contributes to long-lasting therapeutic change in children and adolescents. With a multitude of vivid clinical examples,...
In the Middle
The adolescent brain, behaviour and learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Middle: The adolescent brain, behaviour and learning explores current research into brain development in adolescence and the changes in the brain as humans move into adulthood. This book seeks to use neuroscience to help parents, teachers and adults better understand the changes that occur...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychology
The Science of Young Minds—Clear, Complete, and Current
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Simplifying a complex subject.
Child psychology is required for college level psych and elementary education majors. It is a complex subject that can include developmental psychology, biology, sociological psychology, and various schools of theory and therapies. The only sources of information...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This handbook fills major gaps in the child and adolescent mental health literature by focusing on the unique challenges and resiliencies of African American youth. It combines a cultural perspective on the needs of the population with best-practice approaches to interventions. Chapters provide expert...
Attachment in Middle Childhood: Theoretical Advances and New Directions in an Emerging Field
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 148
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
One of the critical factors in early development is the formation of a secure attachment, and it continues to be important for older children's responses to psychological stressors like hurt pride, fear, and sadness. This volume provides a timely review of research to date, describing important insights...
by Jill Ehrenreich-May, Sarah M. Kennedy, Jamie A. Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is arguably the most effective psychotherapy model for children and adolescents with emotional disorders (e.g., anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma and stress-related disorders, etc.). Emotional disorders in youth frequently overlap or co-occur,...
by Matthew Hodes, Susan Shur-Fen Gau
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Positive Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency examines the main mechanisms involved in improving mental health in children and adolescents, including social and biological processes, as well as effective treatments.
By taking into account diverse...