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Adoptees' Ethnic Identity Within Family and Social Contexts

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 150

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

This special issue addresses the construction of ethnic identity among international transracial adoptees, which typically involve the placement of Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Multiracial children with White parents. International transracial adoptees, similar to immigrants, navigate a cultural and...
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Progress toward a Literate World

Early Reading Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 155

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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017

In order to work toward eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals significantly include universal primary education, gender equality, and empowering women. Effective early literacy instruction plays a critical role in achieving these goals. From...
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The Science, and Art, of Program Dissemination: Strategies, Successes, and Challenges

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 149

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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015

Gain a greater awareness of the processes involved in the dissemination of evidence-based interventions, as well as existing supports that help disseminate and sustain them. Many interventions that aim to help children and adolescents are found to be efficacious every year, but program developers...
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Perspectives on Creativity Development

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 151

by Baptiste Barbot
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Creativity development is a nonlinear and multifaceted process starting early in life. This new thematic issue incorporates recent insights into the intersection of creativity research and developmental science. Specifically, it addresses the development of creativity with a focus on childhood and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

This handbook details best practices and discusses ongoing challenges in assessment and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Chapters address assessment and diagnostic protocols, developmental considerations in ASD assessment, and issues concerning comorbid psychological and medical conditions....
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans'

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

Since Freud’s publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott have influenced psychoanalytic play therapy and broadened the scope of practice with...
Cover of Child Rights Education for Inclusion and Protection
by Murli Desai, Sheetal Goel
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018

The aims of child rights education are to make children and their primary duty-bearers aware of child rights so that they both can be empowered to together advocate for and apply them at their family, school and community levels. This sourcebook focuses on child rights education for primary prevention...
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Challenges to Implementing Effective Reading Intervention in Schools

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 154

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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

This special issue is a "how to" on overcoming the many systems-level challenges in K–12 public education to implement effective reading interventions for the vast numbers of students reading below grade level. It emphasizes building researcher–practitioner partnerships, providing ongoing professional...
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Autonomy in Adolescent Development

Towards Conceptual Clarity

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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017

Autonomy is a central feature of adolescent development, playing a key role in adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment. However, opinions differ about the nature and definition of autonomy and so important questions regarding the role of autonomy in adolescents’ development have remained unanswered....
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Biomental Child Development

Perspectives on Psychology and Parenting

by Frank John Ninivaggi M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012

Biomental Child Development: Perspectives on Psychology and Parenting coins the novel term “biomental” to denote the interaction of the actual and gradually integrating body and mind from conception through development over infancy, childhood, and adolescence. This innovative approach presents...
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The Shy Child

Overcoming and Preventing Shyness from Infancy to Adulthood

by Philip G Zimbardo, Shirley L. Radl
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017

Two out of every five people in the U.S. regard themselves as "shy." Yet, shyness can be cured, says Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the nation's leading authority on shyness. With co-author Shirley Radl, Dr. Zimbardo presents a program for overcoming and preventing shyness from infancy to adulthood. The book...
Cover of Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Ecological Settings and Processes
by Richard M. Lerner, Marc H. Bornstein, Tama Leventhal
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...
Cover of Is Your Child Wired for Success?
by Dan Lier
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015

As parents, if you knew the environment you are providing your child determines their success or their failure, would you want to know how you could make a difference? Would you want to know how to give your kids the edge?According to the Psycho-Success Developmental Theory, we are either providing...
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Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting

Findings From A Racially Diverse Sample

by Patricia L. East, Marianne E. Felice
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Written by a pediatrician/adolescent medicine specialist and a developmental psychologist, this book is a collection of informative, nonredundant yet comprehensive studies on adolescent pregnancy and parenting. More than 200 adolescent women in an ethnically diverse sample were studied prenatally...
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