Child Psychology category: 2885 books
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...
by John Gottman, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Intelligence That Comes from the Heart
Every parent knows the importance of equipping children with the intellectual skills they need to succeed in school and life. But children also need to master their emotions. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child is a guide to teaching children to understand...
Writing
A Mosaic of New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development...
The Nurture Assumption
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they...
by Don McNicol
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
A Primer of Signal Detection Theory is being reprinted to fill the gap in literature on Signal Detection Theory--a theory that is still important in psychology, hearing, vision, audiology, and related subjects. This book is intended to present the methods of Signal Detection Theory to a person with...
Motivating Humans
Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1992
This volume provides a precise and comprehensive description of human motivation. Drawing on psychology, education and management, Ford integrates classic and contemporary motivation theory into a unified framework - Motivational Systems Theory - from which he derives 17 principles for motivating...
by Madison J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The difficult boy stands clearly differentiated in my mind from the backward-minded or irresponsible boy, although there are grounds on which they may become merged. The difficult boy, as I conceive him, is one endowed with normal impulses, usually overstrong, which, because of defects of early guidance,...
The Intuitive Parent
Why the Best Thing for Your Child Is You
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
You already have everything you need to raise a healthy, happy, intelligent child
Parenting today is practically a competitive sport, and marketers are all too happy to cash in. Scare tactics and scientific-sounding jargon make it seem like parents are in constant danger of hard-wiring their...
The Difficult Child
Expanded and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
How to help--and cope with--the difficult child
Expanded and completely revised, the classic and definitive work on parenting hard-to-raise children with new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.
Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset...
When the Labels Don't Fit
A New Approach to Raising a Challenging Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
“One of the finest and most helpful books we have ever read . . . should be the first stop for any parent trying to help a struggling child.”
—Brock Eide and Fernette Eide, authors of The Mislabeled Child
Finally, a positive approach designed around your child’s traits and needs
Many...
Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child
Seeing an Overwhelming World through Their Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
It’s not easy to be a highly sensitive child. Nor is it always easy to raise, care for, guide and teach a highly sensitive child. Because the highly sensitive child experiences the world a little differently, and that can be difficult to understand.
This book aims to help you experience the...
Father Hunger
Explorations with Adults and Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the clinical literature of psychoanalysis. We live in an era when a great many children grow up without a father,...
Unfinished Business
Pressure Points in the Lives of Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
“An extraordinary panorama of women’s lives today.”—The New York Times Book Review
In detailed, revealing portraits of women from their teens through their sixties, Maggie Scarf explores the core experiences of women’s lives and discovers what can happen when the days and years scurry...
The Youth Development Handbook
Coming of Age in American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
What are the types of environments in which youth thrive? How do we cultivate such environments to promote optimal development and positive behavior in youth? The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities provides youth and development practitioners access to current theory...