Child Psychology category: 2885 books
by Linda Kelly, Janice Plunkett D'Avignon
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
A practical, hands-on guide for working with children diagnosed with high functioning autism spectrum disorders.
Therapists play a crucial role in helping children and their families as they navigate the often stormy course of living with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As cases of autism...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
The Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment brings together, for the first time, leading clinical researchers to provide empirically based recommendations for assessment of social-emotional and behavior problems and disorders in the earliest years. Each author presents...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Integration of Cognitive, Neuropsychological, and Psychodynamic Perspectives in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
For many researchers, clinicians, teachers, patients, and family members, the discourse on ADHD has been occurring in silos. Traditional ADHD camps are organized primarily in terms of neurological and cognitive perspectives and to a lesser extent psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspectives. Those with...
Playing Hard at Life
A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers who have survived the wars of the Middle...
by Thomas Jacobs, James Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2015
Bullying has no higher price than the self-inflicted death of a tormented child or teen. Why is this happening, and what can be done about it? Thomas Jacobs, a retired juvenile court judge, and James Sutton, a child and adolescent psychologist, combine their expertise and decades of experience into...
Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 22
Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Launched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry, in the words of founding coeditors Sherman C. Feinstein, Peter L. Giovacchinni, and Arthur A. Miller, promised "to explore adolescence as a process . . . to enter challenging and exciting areas that may have profound effects on our basic concepts."...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Filled with vivid clinical material, this book describes effective practices for helping children and their families who are coping with chronic and acute health conditions and their treatment. Concise chapters on the psychosocial challenges associated with specific pediatric health conditions are...
Parenting Your Way
From Tough Love to Enough Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Are you are a parent that struggles with some of the methods you currently use to parent? Do you find yourself acting out of habit?
Do you want to be able to help your child feel successful and happy?
Do you want to share your personal values?
As you parent from your values you...
Analyzing Children
Psychological Structure, Trauma, Development, and Therapeutic Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2019
Freud described changes in the structure of the mind, including the consolidation of the superego with resolution of the oedipal complex. Important psychoanalytic thinkers since Freud have studied and emphasized the role of pre-oedipal development in the creation of psychological structure. While...
by Ved P. Varma
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The management of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties has always been a source of worry and concern to those who have to deal with them. Many such children are unpredictable, sometimes embarrassing, and can often make us feel helpless. We need to know more about them, and why they...
by Sara Micotti
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
A Sunny Day is a book for babies and very young children. Recent discoveries in the field of Neuroscience and experience in the field of Child Psychology show how competent babies and young children are at communicating with the world.
They can understand both emotional messages and spoken language...
The Uses of Enchantment
The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Winner of the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award
"A charming book about enchantment, a profound book about fairy tales."—John Updike, The New York Times Book Review
Bruno Bettelheim was one of the great child psychologists of the twentieth century...
Speaking about the Unspeakable
Non-Verbal Methods and Experiences in Therapy with Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
Children do not always have the capacity or need to express themselves through words. They often succeed in saying more about their feelings and experiences by communicating non-verbally through play and other expressive, creative activities. The basic premise of Speaking about the Unspeakable is...
The Beast in the Nursery
On Curiosity and Other Appetites
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
If you are disturbed by the idea that to grow up is to learn to live with disillusionment, if you are fascinated by the perplexity of child-rearing, or if you fear you were more creative as a child, The Beast in the Nursery offers an illuminating and possibly life-changing experience.
In...