Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Trauma in the Lives of Children
Crisis and Stress Management Techniques for Counselors, Teachers, and Other Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2002
This is an invaluable source for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma. Using a solutions-based interdisciplinary approach, this illustrated book explains how children react to specific types of trauma and how to work with a traumatized child....
Help Me, I'm Sad
Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Until the early 1980s, there was no official diagnosis for depression in children. But children can, and do, become depressed. In fact, the National Institute of Mental Health now estimates that 2.5 million youngsters under eighteen have experienced clinical depression--and the real number may be...
The Scientist In The Crib
Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them.It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is...
Boys of Few Words
Raising Our Sons to Communicate and Connect
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
When your son responds to personal questions with a blank stare, or quickly changes the topic, you might chalk it up to “boys will be boys”--but still worry that something is missing in your relationship or troubling your child. You could be right on both counts. Whether your son needs to talk...
Media Moms & Digital Dads
A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Is social media ruining our kids? How much Internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? Are you curious about what research says about how media and technology are affecting childhood? Supported by academic research focused on technology,...
Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents
Phase-Oriented Strategies for Addressing Complex Trauma Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents brings together two powerful treatment directions that exponentially expand the knowledge and skills available to child and adolescent trauma therapists. The book provides theoretical knowledge, clinical approaches, and specific, detailed...
The Grieving Teen
A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
In this unique and compassionate guide, renowned grief counselor Helen Fitzgerald turns her attention to the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives teens the tools they need to work through their pain and grief.
Although the circumstances surrounding a death are difficult...
Asperger Syndrome, Second Edition
Assessing and Treating High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Completely revised with the latest research and clinical strategies, this is the authoritative volume on Asperger syndrome (now part of DSM-5 autism spectrum disorder). Considered the definitive reference since its initial publication, the book focuses on how to assess each child or adolescent's needs...
by Nadir Baksh Psy.D. / Laurie Murphy Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
In You Don't Know Anything...!: A Manual for Parenting Your Teenagers we will take into consideration those ages between twelve and eighteen ending at the general time at which most teens matriculate to college or independent living although twenty years of age is more commonly thought of as the...
Your Defiant Teen, Second Edition
10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
If life with your teen has become a battleground, it's time to take action. This empathic book shows how. Trusted psychologists who have worked with thousands of families give you the tools you need to overcome defiance and get teen behavior back on track. By following the authors' clinically proven...
Assessing Children's Well-Being
A Handbook of Measures
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2003
Behavioral medicine has now matured as a field to the point where all recognize that different populations are presented with different issues. Psychological reactions and patterns affect the health and well-being of children, as well as adults, and numerous standardized instruments for the assessment...
Treating Explosive Kids
The Collaborative Problem-Solving Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
The first comprehensive presentation for clinicians of the groundbreaking approach popularized in Ross Greene's acclaimed parenting guide, The Explosive Child, this book provides a detailed framework for effective, individualized intervention with highly oppositional children and their families. Many...
Play Therapy
Engaging & Powerful Techniques for the Treatment of Childhood Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Discover why play therapy works and how to use it to treat childhood mental health challenges such as:
ADHD — Anxiety — Autism — Disruptive Behavior Disorders — Depression — OCD — PTSD — Trauma — Self-Esteem — Social Skills
Play Therapy is filled with dozens of powerful...
LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
Empowering Approaches for an Inclusive System of Care
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Representing an often overlooked population in social work literature, this book explores the experiences of LGBTQ youth as they navigate the child welfare system. Adam McCormick examines the entirety of a youth’s experience, from referral into care and challenges to obtaining permanency to aging...