Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Dialogues with Children and Adolescents
A Psychoanalytic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Psychoanalytic work with children is popular, but the sophisticated language used in psychoanalytic discourse can be at odds with how children communicate, and how best to communicate with them. Dialogues with Children and Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Guide shows how these aims can be achieved for...
Play and Art in Child Psychotherapy
An Expressive Arts Therapy Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Ellen G. Levine draws on her extensive experience in clinical settings to present a series of case studies that demonstrate how art-making and imaginary play can provide a space for children to metabolize their experiences. Each study is followed by an arts-based research discussion of the themes...
by Brenda-Krause Eheart, Ellen Townsend, Elspeth Webb
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
This book provides a model which offers guidance on effective and appropriate therapeutic interventions and services for vulnerable children and young people (commonly children who have experienced trauma, abuse, domestic violence or neglect).
By addressing practice, theory and policy, the...
In Celebration of Play
An Integrated Approach to Play and Child Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Play is the child’s way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment. In addition to adequate sports and recreation facilities children need a wide variety of opportunities, choices and raw materials that they can use as they see fit for free constructive creative play....
The Resilience of Language
What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn...
Advances in Clinical Child Psychology
Volume 20
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
It is with both pride and sadness that we publish the twentieth and last volume of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. This series has seen a long and successful run starting under the editorship of Ben Lahey and Alan Kazdin, who passed the baton to us at Volume 14. We are grateful to the many...
Retro Toddler
More Than 100 Old-School Activities to Boost Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
You don't need to buy high-tech digital devices, apps, or expensive toys to boost your toddler's brain development! Research shows that the best way for toddlers to learn is through daily, active play and Retro Toddler includes more than 100 fun, age-appropriate, "old-school" activities...
The Baby In The Mirror
A Child's World From Birth To Three
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
For Charles Fernyhough, the birth of his daughter Athena was an opportunity to re-evaluate much of what he had learned as a researcher in developmental psychology. Drawing on the detailed notes he made during her infancy, Fernyhough uses Athena's story to explain how a child's mind develops before...
Should I Medicate My Child?
Sane Solutions For Troubled Kids With-and Without-psychiatric Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
With the publication of Running on Ritalin in 1998, Dr. Lawrence Diller established himself as the country's leading expert on the use of psychiatric drugs to treat children. Since then, parents have clamored for his expertise on psychological problems beyond ADD, drugs beyond Ritalin, and, most important,...
The Home Education Handbook
A comprehensive and practical guide to educating children at home
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
'Home-educators want to provide a high quality learning experience for their children and this handbook is an excellent resource for making this aspiration a reality' - Dr Adam Boddison, Chief Executive of National Association of Special Educational Needs
If you are thinking of home educating...
Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States
Theory, Research, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This book explores the risk and protective factors of rural life and minority status for youth and their families. It provides innovative perspectives on well-documented developmental challenges (e.g., poverty and lack of resources) as well as insights into the benefits of familial and cultural strengths....
by Richard M. Lerner, Willis F. Overton, Peter C. M. Molenaar
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...
by Richard M. Lerner, Lynn S. Liben, Ulrich Mueller
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...
Integrated Early Childhood Behavioral Health in Primary Care
A Guide to Implementation and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book provides a step-by-step guide to integrating early childhood behavioral health care into primary care with hands-on advice for creating, implementing, and evaluating programs. It discusses the unique advantages of pediatric primary care as a setting for mental health services from birth...