Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
The Parental Tool Box
For Parents and Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
The Parental Tool Box contains the largest array of practical strategies and skills assembled in one book for parents and clinicians. The latest research in attachment theory, neurobiology, and evidence-based therapeutic strategies and interventions are integrated into three major sections: The Power...
Counseling 21st Century Students for Optimal College and Career Readiness
A 9th-12th Grade Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In order for students to compete in today’s global economy, our schools need to help them develop better cognitive and technological skills. School counselors have an enormous impact on students’ achievement and their success in their post-secondary education, yet initiatives to improve student...
Always the Fat Kid
The Truth About the Enduring Effects of Childhood Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in a generation. But while debates continue over the content of school lunches and the dangers of fast food, we are just beginning to recognize the full extent of the long-term physical, psychological, and social problems that overweight children...
The Romantic Lives of Emerging Adults
Getting from I to We
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory. While they prize committed and authentic relationships, they appear to be reluctant participants. They prefer to foster ambiguity in their romantic relationships, even as they value honesty and clarity. There is, at once,...
What Works with Teens
A Professional's Guide to Engaging Authentically with Adolescents to Achieve Lasting Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
**Two clinical social workers offer clinicians, educators, coaches, and other youth counselors the first professional book that focuses on engaging authentically with teens in order to create lasting change. Anyone who works with teens should read this book. **
If you work with teens,...
Running on Empty
Transcending the Economic Culture's Seduction of Our Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
There is a growing malaise affecting our youth. Running on Empty--Transcending the Economic Culture's Seduction of Our Youth, offers a hopeful and comprehensive paradigm that can transform and reverse the downward trends causing youth's suffering. Gang membership has grown 40% in 3 years, suicide is...
by U. Kavya Jyotsna
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Stress and anxiety in children and teenagers are just as prevalent as in adults. Stressful and negligent parents, high expectations in academic or other performances, abused or deprived childhood, growing up tensions and demand for familial responsibilities are the main causes of childhood and teenage...
The Resilience Doughnut
The Secret of Strong Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This thoughtful, accessible, inspirational and well written book outlines a model that can provide ourselves and our children with the capacity to face, overcome and be transformed by adversity. In Seven bite size chunks, the Resilience Doughnut model represents the outside influences that build resilience...
A.W.O.L.
the missing teenage brain and the impact on mental health
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2018
A book for parents of teens or preteens, teachers and professionals.
Adolescence is a turbulent time for young people. Not only do they have to cope with the external pressures surrounding them, such as relationships, academic and peers, they also form their adult personalities.
In...
by Ward Clapham
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Foreword by Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleMy community, like so many others, struggled with the number of calls for youth disturbances and crime. The reactive approach to solving this problem was not working. Kids saw us as the "hunters." With that mindset,...
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting
Keeping the Child's Mind in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Clinical Perspectives on Reflective Parenting: Keeping the Child’s Mind in Mind describes the Center for Reflective Parenting and techniques developed at the Center for helping parents to be able to understand and reflect on their children’s emotional states, as a way of helping them to be more...
Frames
12 fabulous ways of talking with young people
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
A ‘Frame’ is just what it sounds like. It’s something that contains or puts a border around what you are looking at; so you can see more clearly what’s inside, or in this case, what you might want to talk about. Each of the 12 ‘Frames’ in this book, gives you a way to have a meaningful...
by John Cotterell
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This thoroughly revised new edition looks at the nature of social networks, their changing configurations, and the forces of influence they unleash in shaping the life experiences of young people between the ages of 12 and 25 years.
The author draws on both social and psychological research...