Child Psychology category: 2885 books
A Parent's Guide to High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder, Second Edition
How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Over 100,000 parents have found the facts they need about high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including Asperger syndrome, in this indispensable guide. Leading experts show how you can work with your child's unique impairments--and harness his or her capabilities. Vivid stories and real-world...
A Healing Place
Help Your Child Find Hope and Happiness After the Loss of aLoved One
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Real-world advice for caregivers of grieving children?from the founder of the nationally acclaimed, non-profit organization Kate?s Club.
Kate?s Club is dedicated to empowering children and teens who have lost loved ones. Based on its founder?s down-to-earth philosophy on how to handle grief,...
Self-Regulation Interventions and Strategies
Keeping the Body, Mind & Emotions on Task in Children with Autism, ADHD or Sensory Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Keeping children bodies, minds and emotions on task just got easier with this new book from self-regulation expert Teresa Garland. Featuring more than 200 practical and proven interventions, strategies and adaptation for helping children gain more control over their lives. Each chapter provides rich...
Sam Feels Better Now!
An Interactive Story For Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Sam saw something awful and scary! Ms. Carol, a special therapist, will show Sam how to feel better. Children can help Sam feel better too by using drawings, play, and storytelling activities. They will be able to identify and manage their own feelings and difficulties in their lives following a traumatic...
Classical Adlerian Psychology Theme Pack 1: Birth Order
How Positon in the Family Influences Life Style
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Adler explores the difficulties facing oldest, second, youngest, and only children in a family. He also illustrates the influences of pampering, dethronement, and sexual roles. Chapter XXV from "The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler" - Volume 7 (14 pages).
Childhood
A Study of the Growing Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
The author traces human development through childhood. She describes the spirit and soul as the child incarnates and how the individual comes to expression in various ways, including the particular temperament; the unique formative forces that give shape to the physical body; the development of consciousness;...
Children's Dreams
Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In the 1930s C. G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his findings in a four-year seminar series at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Children's...
Healthy Anger
How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2003
How should we respond to a child's temper tantrum? To a teenager's sullen resentment? How can we help children and teens experience their anger without being overwhelmed by it? How can we deal with their anger before it leads to depression, isolation, or even violence? In Healthy Anger, Bernard Golden...
Magic Trees of the Mind
How to Nuture your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Cutting edge scientific research has shown that exposure to the right kind of environment during the first years of life actually affects the physical structure of a child's brain, vastly increasing the number of neuron branches—the "magic trees of the mind"—that help us to learn, think, and remember....
by Daniel A. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
An expert clinician brings attachment theory into the realm of parenting skills.
Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but many of these ideas—so integral to successful therapeutic work with kids and adolescents— have yet to be effectively...
by Michael Gurian
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Dr. Michael Gurian has studied and served children for thirty years. In the Wonder of Girls (2002), he presented a science-based approach to raising healthy and successful daughters. In the Minds of Girls, he pioneers new and intuitive approaches to health and wellness in all three important areas...
Counselling Children, Adolescents and Families
A Strengths-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
`I recommend this book to anyone who lives or works with families, children or teenagers' - Nurturing Potential
`This is a valuable book, worth attention in every child and family service. My own agency has ordered a copy!' - Robert Cumming, Nurturing Potential
`John Sharry's book is...
Positive Psychotherapy
Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking, and restoring dysfunctional relationships is curative. But something important has been overlooked: the positives....
Problem Solving in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
A Skills-Based, Collaborative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
This highly accessible book presents clear steps for helping children and adolescents to develop and test out new solutions to specific social, emotional, or behavioral challenges. The author demonstrates how therapists of any orientation can implement problem solving as a stand-alone intervention...