Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Your Two-Year-Old
Terrible or Tender
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Are two-year-olds really so terrible, or does the world have a slightly skewed view of this sometimes difficult, sometimes adorable lot? Drs. Ames and Ilg, recognized worldwide as authorities on child behavior and development, offer parents practical advice and enlightening psychological insights...
Spare the Child
The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. These words provided generations of American Christians with the justification for physically disciplining their children, in ways that range from spankings to brutal beatings. This learned and deeply disturbing...
Preventing Child Maltreatment
Community Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Many child abuse prevention programs have targeted factors within the family, such as parenting skills. This book describes the next wave of prevention: the promotion of safer, healthier childrearing environments in entire communities. The contributors are leading authorities who illuminate how contextual...
by John F. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
John Hunt is a kind and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle and his face beams. He is a retired businessman and still retains that drive. I met John the summer of 2000. He came for the graduation ceremony of the crew of students that Jason had led, and we talked. Jason had a difficult course which is...
Attach Me if You Can
How to help children attach, feel safe and ultimately act lovable
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Paul Tournier stated: “At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.” In 1975 when I started seeing children in therapy at the Grand Rapids Child Guidance Clinic in Grand Rapids, Michigan it seemed like the major problems...
Theraplay
Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this treatment method in its traditional format of individual child and parent sessions. Its simple, action-oriented,...
Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach
Music Therapy at a Child Development Centre
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2006
In Interactive Music Therapy - A Positive Approach, Amelia Oldfield explains how her approach to music therapy sessions establishes a constructive musical dialogue with children that emphasises positive experiences - these establish trust and allow feelings to be expressed through music.
Describing...
Baby Minds
Brain-Building Games Your Baby Will Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
More than 65 delightful games and activities to jump-start your baby's amazing brainpower
Can simply singing a song or blowing a dandelion under a toddler's nose help her mind to blossom? Can your baby count, remember events, and solve problems even before he can talk? The exciting answer to...
Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children
Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child–parent psychotherapy promotes the child's emotional health and builds the parent's capacity to nurture and protect, particularly when...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Volume 35 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series is divided into nine components that highlight some of the most recent research in developmental and educational psychology.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including Cognitive Mechanisms, Episodic and Autobiographical...
by Janette B. Benson
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Volume 42 of the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series includes 9 chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the area.
A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including Loneliness in Childhood, The Legacy of Early Interpersonal Experience, The Relation Between...
The Science inside the Child
The story of what happens when we're growing up
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do. It looks at children’s individual development within the development of our species, at genes, at the hormone systems that flood our bodies, at the neuroscience...
Little Kids, Big Dilemmas
Your parenting problems solved by science
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Fed up with conflicting advice? This book offers real answers to the following questions and more…
Can sleep training harm my baby?
Is screen time bad for my child?
Is breast always best?
Psychologist Dr Sarah Kuppen, expert in early child development, uses her scientific...
by Jean Piaget
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Over a period of six decades, Jean Piaget conducted a program of naturalistic research that has profoundly affected our understanding of child development.