Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Core Principles of Assessment and Therapeutic Communication with Children, Parents and Families
Towards the Promotion of Child and Family Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Practitioners today are confronted by a bewildering array of therapies as ‘cure alls.’ This book provides an integrated approach to working with children, parents and families that can be applied by all professionals in a variety of settings. Informed by a psychodynamic perspective, it identifies...
Joint Attention
Its Origins and Role in Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that all of what is intrinsically human experience is grounded in its shared nature. Joint attention to objects and events in the world provides the initial means whereby infants can start to share experiences with others and negotiate shared meanings. It provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
This handbook synthesizes and integrates the science of internalizing and externalizing childhood disorders with the diagnostic structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – 5th Edition (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association. It offers a comprehensive overview of DSM-5 disorders...
Psychological Development From Infancy
Image to Intention
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Originally published in 1979, this volume represented a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of older children. In each chapter, eminent research workers attempt to cross the theoretical, empirical, and methodological barriers that had traditionally...
The Child's Curriculum
Working with the Natural Values of Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
All children are born with emotional talent. But if left untended, those talents can wane during the first five years of life. Children are sensitive and social beings from birth, exhibiting an innate enthusiasm for communication that must be satisfied for healthy development. If their feelings, agency,...
Promoting Child and Parent Wellbeing
How to Use Evidence- and Strengths-Based Strategies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2016
Informed by a wealth of research, this accessible book focuses on a strengths-based approach to promoting children's wellbeing and giving them the best opportunities to succeed.
By identifying risk factors and the protective factors which can be used to counter them, this book stresses the...
Parenting Beliefs, Behaviors, and Parent-Child Relations
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achieve particular parenting or developmental goals, are culturally determined. Within any culture, children are shaped by the physical and social...
by Oana A. David, Raymond DiGiuseppe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This brief but potent reference combines cognitive-behavioral and rational-emotive theory and techniques in an effective group program for parents of children with externalizing disorders. The Rational Positive Parenting Program (rPPP) addresses irrational emotions and their underlying beliefs that...
The Primordial Violence
Spanking Children, Psychological Development, Violence, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014!
Why do parents hit those they love? What effect does it have on children? What can be done to end this pattern? These are some of the questions explored in The Primordial Violence. Featuring longitudinal data from over 7,000 U.S. families as well as...
by Judith V. Torney-Purta
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Based on a study of 12,000 elementary school children in eight large and medium-sized American cities, this book presents the first large-scale study of political attitude formation in children. The authors view political development from the perspective of a general theory of socialization, and compare...
Adoption Beyond Borders
How International Adoption Benefits Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
International adoptions have decreased dramatically in the last decade, despite robust evidence of the tremendous benefits that early placement in adoptive families can confer upon children who are not able to remain with birth families. Adoption Beyond Borders integrates evidence from a range of...
Discussions on Child Development
Volume three
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...
Kindergarten Transition and Readiness
Promoting Cognitive, Social-Emotional, and Self-Regulatory Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive overview of children’s transitions to kindergarten as well as proven strategies that promote their readiness. It presents theories and research to help understand children’s development during the early childhood years. It describes evidence-based interventions...
Gaze-Following
Its Development and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
What does a child’s ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development? What does this ability—or lack thereof—tell us about a child’s language development, understanding of other’s intentions, and the emergence of autism? This volume assembles...