Child Psychology category: 2885 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized. This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe effective treatment approaches in this key area. The book begins by providing guiding principles for...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Providing a complete overview of art therapy, from theory and research to practical applications, this is the definitive handbook in the field. Leading practitioners demonstrate the nuts and bolts of arts-based intervention with children, adults, families, couples, and groups dealing with a wide range...
Children Behaving Badly?
Peer Violence Between Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Children Behaving Badly? is the first publication to directly address the complexity of peer violence from a range of disciplines and perspectives.
Provides important insights into theoretical understanding of the issue and produces significant and far reaching implications for policy and practice...
Interventions for Reading Problems, Second Edition
Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure. Step-by-step strategies target key areas of literacy development: phonological awareness, fluency,...
Playful Awakening
Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Playfulness has the power to reconnect us with our sense of self, and help us achieve growth and self-fulfilment.
The author of this wide-ranging book explores the universal significance of play in the pursuit of happiness and authenticity. Providing a brief overview of the role of play in...
Resilient Therapy
Working with Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Whilst much has been written about the identification of resilience in children and their families, comparatively little has been written about what practitioners can do to support those children and families who need the most pressing help.
Resilient Therapy explores a new therapeutic methodology...
Derived Relational Responding Applications for Learners with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
A Progressive Guide to Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Copublished with Context Press
Derived Relational Responding offers a series of revolutionary intervention programs for applied work in human language and cognition targeted at students with autism and other developmental disabilities. It presents a program drawn from derived stimulus relations...
Teens Who Hurt
Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Offering a fresh perspective on treatment, this book presents an overarching framework and many specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. The authors shed light on the complex interplay of individual, family, community, and societal forces that lead some adolescents to...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised, is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with children who have experienced major losses, family upheavals, violence in the school or community, and other traumatic events. Leading experts present a range...
Group Work with Adolescents After Violent Death
A Manual for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This manual for facilitators of teen grief groups and other mental health professionals, addresses the unique needs of adolescents experiencing traumatic reactions in the aftermath of violent death. Including information on all types of violent death, this practical guide addresses issues of violence,...
Working with Adolescents
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
A state-of-the-art practitioner resource and course text, this book provides a comprehensive view of adolescent development and spells out effective ways to help teens who are having difficulties. The authors illuminate protective and risk factors in the many contexts of adolescents' lives, from individual...
Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males
A Practitioner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1999
This comprehensive, practical resource provides specific strategies for counsellors working with boys and male adolescents from different cultural backgrounds.
The first part examines how psychological, career and athletic development of boys is shaped by a complex interaction of biological,...
Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents
Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to evaluating children and adolescents, and it is increasingly clear that reliance on just one type of assessment...
Play Therapy Theory and Practice
Comparing Theories and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2009
Play Therapy Theory and Practice, Second Edition is edited by one of the foremost authorities on play therapy. This new edition of the best selling book on the theory and practice of play therapy provides an up-to-date guide to the ten major approaches to play therapy. The new edition covers bipolar...