Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Paediatric Biomechanics and Motor Control
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Paediatric Biomechanics and Motor Control brings together the very latest developmental research using biomechanical measurement and analysis techniques and is the first book to focus on biomechanical aspects of child development. The book is divided into four main sections – the biological changes...
Blueprint
How our childhood makes us who we are
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
'The best book I've read this year ... It's written in such a beautiful way' - Dr Suzi Gage, Book Shambles podcast
From birth to adulthood, Blueprint tells you what you need to know about how you became who you are
Have you ever wondered how your early life shaped you? From beginning...
Children With Multiple Mental Health Challenges
An Integrated Approach to Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
"...[T]his book provides valuable information on taking care of children with complex mental health challenges. Chapters present information in tabular format, which makes the book easy to use in practice. The case vignettes are practical and helpful in understanding a child as a unique case...
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children
Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2006
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family therapy. Eliana Gil demonstrates how to tailor treatment to the needs of each child by using both directive...
But How'd I Get In There In The First Place?
Talking To Your Young Child About Sex
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Young children ask questions about sex, sexuality, conception, and birth that can be embarrassing or uncomfortable for parents. With her characteristic good sense and cool head, author Deborah Roffman will put even the most awkward parents at ease, giving them the skills to talk confidently with young...
Child Development, Third Edition
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
This widely used practitioner resource and course text provides an engaging overview of developmental theory and research, with a focus on what practitioners need to know. The author explains how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among early relationships, brain development, and the...
Children First
What Society Must Do--and is Not Doing--for Children Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Children First is the most important and urgent book on childcare we have yet had from the internationally admired author of the classic Your Baby & Child.
In it Penelope Leach calls on us as individuals and as a nation to make good on the promise of our endless rhetoric about the importance...
by Dianne Maroney
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Imagine Project is a How-to guide that helps parents, teachers, and counselors support kids who are dealing drama, trauma, and stress. Beyond the explanations about emotional wellness, how stress affects a child, and the impact of trauma on a child, there are thorough instructions about how to...
Life and Loss
A Guide to Help Grieving Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Many clinicians recognize that denying or ignoring grief issues in children leaves them feeling alone and that acknowledging loss is crucial part of a child’s healthy development. Really dealing with loss in productive ways, however, is sometimes easier said than done. For decades, Life and Loss...
Empathic Care for Children with Disorganized Attachments
A Model for Mentalizing, Attachment and Trauma-Informed Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Disorganized attachment is the most extreme form of insecure attachment. This book is a practical guide to caring for children and young people with disorganized attachment and related emotional and psychological difficulties.
Synthesising attachment, trauma and mentalization theory into a...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Challenges in the Theory and Practice of Play Therapy provides an advanced and in-depth exploration of the issues and challenges relating to the training, theory and practice of Child-Centred Play Therapy. The ethos of the book is process orientated, and it discusses the particular therapeutic challenges...
by Jodie Hampshire, Selina Smyth, Tammie Flinos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This is the book the authors wish they had a decade ago as they started out to raise healthy and resilient adopted children – and stay sane in the process.
You’ve completed the paperwork, waited and waited and then waited some more. Then, your adopted child is yours to parent. And you plan...
by Ray Mathis
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Parenting and teaching can be tough. It's easy to generate more emotion than is helpful and make mistakes, especially with the most troubled and troublesome young people. This book was written by a health education teacher who became certified in cognitive behavioral therapy to better understand...
Transforming Children's Mental Health Policy into Practice
Lessons from Virginia and Other States' Experiences Creating and Sustaining Comprehensive Systems of Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children’s mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and contextual forces influence policy and practice...