Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Mental Health Practice in Today's Schools
Issues and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
"Mental Health Practice in Todayís Schools: Issues and Interventions provides a comprehensive guide to the mental health issues of students in our schools and practical school-wide prevention and intervention strategies to address these challenges. This text will likely serve as an essential...
Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The burgeoning multidisciplinary field of social and emotional learning (SEL) now has a comprehensive and definitive handbook covering all aspects of research, practice, and policy. The prominent editors and contributors describe state-of-the-art intervention and prevention programs designed to build...
Ecobehavioral Consultation in Schools
Theory and Practice for School Psychologists, Special Educators, and School Counselors
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Ecobehavioral Consultation in Schools is a practical, theory-based text that advances the practice of ecobehavioral consultation (EBC) and teaches consultants how to develop their own successful practice. It includes examples of what the consultant could say at each step of the process, over 30 easy-to-use...
by Paul H. Wender
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Paul Wender is a pioneer researcher and clinician who was one of the first to identify and treat children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and later to notice the same pattern of symptoms in the parents of these children. He has now thoroughly revised and updated his classic handbook...
Brief Intervention for School Problems, Second Edition
Outcome-Informed Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Every interaction with a young person who is struggling is an opportunity for change. This highly practical guide helps school practitioners find effective solutions to academic and behavioral problems through brief counseling. It shows how to build on the ideas and resources that students, parents,...
Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults
A Clinician’s Guide to the Transition From Adolescence to Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults is an indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail. Renowned clinician Brad Sachs, PhD, provides both a conceptual framework...
Drawings in Assessment and Psychotherapy
Research and Application
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Drawing is a language, projected by children and adults, reflecting their joy and pain. It is used extensively by clinical psychologists, art therapists, social workers, and other mental health professionals in the assessment and treatment of children, adolescents, adults, and couples. This book brings...
by Sue Jennings, Timothy Rodier, Julie Rose
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Therapeutic deep play has the capacity for children to express deep emotions, overcome seemingly insurmountable issues and resolve serious problems. Working with children in this profound way, therapists are able to not only eliminate symptoms, but to change the very structure of how children live...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Originally published in 1993, this title has contributions from many internationally respected experts from this field. The book covers the following areas: theories of development and etiology of depression; medical illness and depression; depression and other psychiatric conditions; treatment approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In this volume and its companion Adolescence: The Crises of Adjustment, originally published in 1975, members of the Adolescent Department at the Tavistock Clinic and of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, together with other leading experts on the subject, present a unique study of adolescence.
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Adolescent Psychiatry, V. 29
The Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
A special section on adolescent substance abuse highlights Volume 29 of Adolescent Psychiatry. Contributions range from an examination of brain myelination in relation to onset of addictive disorders (Bartzokis) to the screening instruments used to detect substance use disorders (Rosner) to practical...
Caring for Children With Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Their Families
An Innovative Approach to Interdisciplinary Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities such as mental retardation or autism present multiple challenges to their families, health care providers, and teachers. Professionals consulted by desperate parents often see the problems from their own angle only and diagnosis and intervention efforts...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Frances Tustin Today explores some of the ways and means by which Tustin’s work has enabled psychoanalytic clinicians to enter into the elemental domain of sensation: what Bion called the ‘proto-mental’ area of the psyche-soma. Through detailed clinical contributions of several of her exponents...
by David E. Balk
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
For some, life’s introduction to death and grief comes early, and when it does it can take many forms. Not only does Dealing with Dying, Death, and Grief during Adolescence tackle them all, it does so with David Balk’s remarkable sensitivity to and deep knowledge of the pressures and opportunities...