Child Development category: 2058 books
Building Healthy Minds
The Six Experiences That Create Intelligence And Emotional Growth In Babies And Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Every parent wants to raise a bright, happy, and moral child, but until Stanley Greenspan investigated the building blocks of cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, no one could show parents how and when these qualities begin. In this book Dr. Greenspan, the internationally admired child...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Professionals, academics, and policy makers in the field of child and adolescent development tend to use theoretical frameworks stemming from traditional classified disciplines of psychology, sociology, political science, economics, education, and social work. This book creates an opportunity for...
The Power of Positive Parenting
Transforming the Lives of Children, Parents, and Communities Using the Triple P System
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Safe, nurturing, and positive parent-child interactions lay the foundations for healthy child development. How children are raised in their early years and beyond affects many different aspects of their lives, including brain development, language, social skills, emotional regulation, mental and physical...
Organized Activities As Contexts of Development
Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing...
Book Smart
How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Authored by two passionate psychologists and educators, Book Smart: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers is a how-to guide rich with stories, lessons, activities, and ideas aimed at supporting reading development and addressing the broad range of interpersonal, social, emotional,...
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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Modern Families
Parents and Children in New Family Forms
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), egg donation,...
Early Childhood Intervention
Working with Families of Young Children with Special Needs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Early childhood is considered a critical but often vulnerable period in a child’s development where early identification and intervention can be crucial for improving children’s developmental outcomes. Systems and family-centred perspectives are vital to support families and build their capacities...
Children and the Environment in an Australian Indigenous Community
A psychological approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Aboriginal children represent one of the fastest growing population segments in Australia, yet the lives of Aboriginal children in their environment has rarely been subjected to systematic and in-depth study. In this book, Angela Kreutz considers the relationship between the environment, attachment...
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....
by Laura Marie Prager, Abigail Louise Donovan M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Suicide by Security Blanket, and Other Stories from the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service: What Happens to Children with Acute Mental Illness takes the reader inside the child psychiatry emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Each chapter highlights both the child's dilemma...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Aggressive behavior among children and adolescents has confounded parents and perplexed professionals—especially those tasked with its treatment and prevention—for countless years. As baffling as these behaviors are, however, recent advances in neuroscience focusing on brain development have helped...
Causality and Development
Neo-Eriksonian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The third book in Young’s unique trilogy on causality and development continues to locate and define the central role of causality in biopsychosocial and network/systems development, and as a unifying concept of psychology itself. As a way of discussing causality, in general, initially, the book...
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...