Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Adoptees' Ethnic Identity Within Family and Social Contexts
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 150
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...
Progress toward a Literate World
Early Reading Interventions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 155
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.
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The Science, and Art, of Program Dissemination: Strategies, Successes, and Challenges
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 149
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...
Perspectives on Creativity Development
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 151
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
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....
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans'
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...
Child Rights Education for Inclusion and Protection
Primary Prevention
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...
Challenges to Implementing Effective Reading Intervention in Schools
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 154
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...
Autonomy in Adolescent Development
Towards Conceptual Clarity
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....
Biomental Child Development
Perspectives on Psychology and Parenting
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...
The Shy Child
Overcoming and Preventing Shyness from Infancy to Adulthood
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...
by Richard M. Lerner, Marc H. Bornstein, Tama Leventhal
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 Dan Lier
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
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...
Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting
Findings From A Racially Diverse Sample
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...