Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Intuitive Parenting
How to tune in to your innate wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Reconnect with your parenting intuition and the innate wisdom it provides with simple, practical steps. Reduce stress and overwhelm, and improve your confidence and relationships.
Parents today are inundated with information and expert advice, often contradictory and invariably overwhelming....
The Potty Wars
Understanding and Helping Your Encopretic Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Encopresis and chronic constipation are distressing conditions that affect many children, and their families. When a child cannot master toilet training, it is upsetting for the child and parents alike. Children feel frustrated, embarrassed, and confused. Parents can feel angry, guilty, incompetent,...
An Independent Mind
Collected papers of Juliet Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
‘Juliet Hopkins has quietly encouraged and inspired generations of colleagues and students’ (Dilys Daws).
An Independent Mind: Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins follows the professional journey and influence of an innovative figure in the history of child psychotherapy. Juliet Hopkins...
Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline
The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation.
Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child, and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves as well...
by Stacey S Horn, Martin D Ruck, Lynn S Liben
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
The first of two volumes in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues focuses on conceptual issues, definitions, and critical concepts relevant to equity and justice for the developmental sciences. This...
Stolen Child
A Mother's Journey to Rescue Her Son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
A year in the desperate life of a boy transformed by OCD from a bright ten-year-old into a stranger in his own skin.
Although Laurie Gough was an intrepid traveller who had explored wild, far-off reaches of the globe, the journey she and her family took in their own home in their small Quebec...
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their...
Decisive Parenting
Strategies That Work with Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Decisive Parenting teaches parents concrete skills for quickly and permanently altering their teenagers' problem behaviors, ranging from argumentativeness and neglecting chores or homework to more serious issues such as shoplifting, underage drinking, and drug use. Michael Hammond provides clear,...
Attachment-Based Milieus for Healing Child and Adolescent Developmental Trauma
A Relational Approach for Use in Settings from Inpatient Psychiatry to Special Education Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book presents an innovative relational and community based therapeutic model to ensure children's essential attachment needs are catered for in intensive mental health care.
The text combines an overview of theory relating to attachment and trauma before laying out a model for working...
Your Defiant Child, Second Edition
Eight Steps to Better Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" 5- to 12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley's approach is research based, practical, and doable--and leads to lasting behavior change. Vivid, realistic...
To Heal a Wounded Heart
The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking. Challenged by the limitations of her training to respond effectively to the isolating effect of childhood trauma, Jennings...
The Case of Miss R. (Psychology Revivals)
The Interpretation of a Life Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Originally published in 1929 the individual psychological interpretation of this autobiography was first presented by Alfred Adler to a group of psychiatrists and pedagogues in Vienna. The story of the development of a neurosis is told in this book. A young girl relates the fascinating story of her...
Children of Neglect
When No One Cares
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This book contains a comprehensive review of the current state of child neglect. Included are statistics regarding incidence and lethality, definitional issues, etiological theory, history of and current policy, and current interventions. As child neglect is often linked with structural issues, the book also examines the relationship of child neglect to poverty, substance abuse and culture.
It's Nobody's Fault
New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
People who wouldn't dream of blaming parents for a child's asthma or diabetes are often quick to blame bad parenting for a child's hyperactivity, depression, or school phobia. The parents, in turn, often blame their children, believing that they're lazy or rebellious. Even worse, the children...