Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy
Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Björn Salomonsson’s experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies. Emotional problems during the perinatal stages can arise and be observed and addressed by a skilled midwife, nurse or health visitor.
Salomonsson...
Engaging Parents in Adolescent Therapy
Beyond the Waiting Room
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Engaging Parents in Adolescent Therapy offers mental health professionals effective strategies to involve parents in the counseling process with adolescents. Weaving together the most current research in attachment theory with insightful clinical experiences, Myrick examines parental motivations in...
Understanding School Refusal
A Handbook for Professionals in Education, Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
` Combining educational and clinical perspectives, and with extensive use of case studies, the authors present recent research into the mental health problems associated with school refusal, such as anxiety and panic attacks, as well as the role that parental support plays in their children's school...
Trauma and Play Therapy
Helping Children Heal
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Trauma and Play Therapy synthesizes new developments in the study of children’s trauma recovery to assist clinicians in combining play therapy with other powerful ways of addressing the needs of hurt children. The TraumaPlayTM model, formerly known as Flexibly Sequential Play Therapy, equips practitioners...
by Sara E. Williams, PhD, Nicole E. Zahka
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Persistent physical symptoms that may not be associated with a known medical disease can be perplexing and distressing for children and families. This book gives mental health professionals a complete understanding of somatic symptoms in 6- to 18-year-olds and presents an innovative treatment approach...
Empowering Children through Art and Expression
Culturally Sensitive Ways of Healing Trauma and Grief
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Empowering Children through Art and Expression examines the successful use of arts and expressive therapies with children, and in particular those whose lives have been disrupted by forced relocation with their families to a different culture or community.
The book explores how children express...
by Frank M. Gresham, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book reviews evidence-based, multi-tiered practices for promoting social-emotional learning (SEL) with typically developing students as well as those with special needs. Leading authority Frank M. Gresham, codeveloper of the Social Skills Improvement System--Rating Scales, describes how to systematically...
Ana-María Rizzuto and the Psychoanalysis of Religion
The Road to the Living God
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The Birth of the Living God, contributors to this international collection of essays confirm the significance of Rizzuto’s contributions to psychoanalytic theories of religious experience. They also underscore Rizzuto’s most important contribution to clinical practice: rather than assert that...
by Rob Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Understanding how children think and feel is the key to buiding good relationships in the classroom. This book looks at:
underlying causes of emotional conflicts
the nature of maladaptive coping mechanisms
why boys tend to "act out" and girls ten to "act in"
interventions to promote the use of adaptive coping styles.
Assessment and Treatment of Childhood Problems, Third Edition
A Clinician's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
This highly accessible work, now thoroughly revised, has shown thousands of students and clinicians how to assess and treat children's emotional and behavioral difficulties from a developmental perspective. The authors provide a sound understanding of typical development (ages 2-12) and the risk and...
A Guide to Psychiatric Services in Schools
Understanding Roles, Treatment, and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In order to provide comprehensive care to students with a wide variety of social and emotional challenges, close collaboration between psychiatrists and school-based mental health professionals is vital. This book provides practical information about psychiatric diagnoses and medications, as well...
Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents provides principles for effective use of different arts-based approaches in adolescent group therapy, grounding these principles in neuroscience and group process practice-based evidence. It includes chapters covering each of the main creative arts...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling Children and Adolescents provides counselors and other professionals with clinical cases and accurate, up-to-date information on both ethical standards and case law. Chapters take a comprehensive, developmental approach to legal and ethical decision making when...
Eating Disorders
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Eating disorders comprise a range of physical, psychological and behavioural features that often have an impact on social functioning and can invade most areas of the sufferer’s life. Although eating and weight disorders are common in children and adolescents, there is a scarcity of practical guidance...