Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Tools for Effective Therapy with Children and Families
A Solution-Focused Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Tools for Effective Therapy with Children and Families provides mental health professionals with step-by-step tools and strategies for effective therapeutic outcomes with children and their families. An integration of solution-focused brief therapy and play therapy, this groundbreaking book is uniquely...
Counseling Troubled Boys
A Guidebook for Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples and covers topics including race, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural factors of boys. A practical tool...
Providing Mental Health Servies to Youth Where They Are
School and Community Based Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Optimizing Learning Outcomes
Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today’s schools. Chapters provide a wide array of evidence-based resources—including links to video segments—that promote understanding,...
Lifescaping Practices in School Communities
Implementing Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Lifescaping Practices in School Communities is a guide for school administrators and helping professionals (school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, and other stakeholders) looking to promote relational wellness and student success in their school. This informative new resource...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Recent advances in evidence-based treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder are comprehensively reviewed in this authoritative volume. The prominent editors and contributors examine the current status of widely used medications and psychosocial therapies, and explore new horizons in tailoring treatment...
by SANE Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2003
This cartoon-based SANE Guide has been written specially for children (6-12-years-old) who have a parent or other person close to them with a mental illness. The Guide explains through a simple picture-story what mental illness is, how it is treated, and how to cope on a day-to-day basis. It is intended to provide information which helps children to understand and cope better with their situation.
by Mortimer Schiffer
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1971, this title is a comprehensive and detailed presentation of the principles and practices of an activity-type, experimental form of group therapy which had proved successful with emotionally disturbed, pre-pubertal children at the time. Mortimer Schiffer describes the clinical...
Group Interventions in Schools
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Numerous group interventions have been shown to be effective for helping K-8 students who are struggling with--or at risk for--a wide range of mental health and behavior problems. This unique book gives school practitioners indispensable tools for making any evidence-based group intervention more...
Teens with Diabetes
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Written by three psychologists with more than 50 years of collective experience in the field of diabetes and youth, Teens with Diabetes provides evidence-based techniques for clinicians to treat the psychological needs of children with diabetes and help them transition into their teenage years. The...
Primitive Mental States
A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Origins of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Traditional psychoanalysis relies on the presence of certain meaning-making capacities in the patient for its effectiveness. Primitive Mental States examines how particular capacities including those for symbolising, fantasising, dreaming, experiencing and finding meanings in those experiences, can...
Implementing Effective Behavior Intervention Plans
8 Steps to Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Whether written by a school psychologist, BCBA, or skilled practitioner of any variety, all behavior intervention plans face the same difficulty—the writer and implementer are not the same person. Too frequently, successful BIPs are discounted and discarded by those responsible for implementation....
Theraplay
Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Theraplay?a pioneering application of attachment theory to clinical work—helps parents learn and practice how to provide the playful engagement, empathic responsiveness, and clear guidance that lead to secure attachment and lifelong mental health in their children. This third edition of the groundbreaking...
Motivational Interviewing in Schools
Conversations to Improve Behavior and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The first teacher's guide to the proven counseling approach known as motivational interviewing (MI), this pragmatic book shows how to use everyday interactions with students as powerful opportunities for change. MI comprises skills and strategies that can make brief conversations about any kind of...