Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
The African American Child, Second Edition
Development and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Praise for the First Edition:
"This book argues convincingly that children's cultural differences need to be recognized for any accurate understanding of their development. Pointing out the need for additional and more effectively designed research, Harris and Graham provide a valuable...
by Dr. Kathryn Seifert
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Everyone in school has concerns about bullying and violence. Bullying is not a rite of passage or part of the competitive spirit, as it was once thought. It is a serious problem in our schools and neighborhoods. Bullies often have emotional problems, histories of trauma, and inadequate problem solving...
by James Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Conflict with one's children or students can turn a great day into a miserable one. But avoiding necessary confrontation and the difficulty it can bring isn't the answer, either. What's needed is a guide, a master script, for discussing troublesome issues with a child or teen in a way...
J'aide mon enfant hypersensible à s'épanouir
Du tout-petit à l'adolescent, comment apprivoiser son hypersensibilité
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2018
« Souvenons-nous donc, en toutes circonstances, de prendre le temps de rassurer, de réconforter, de soutenir et d'encourager l'enfant, pour l'accompagner dans sa croissance humaine. Il s'agit d'accueillir la sensibilité de chaque enfant, comme elle vient, comme elle est, là dans l'instant, pour...
The Psychobiology of Childhood
A Profile of Current Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume was inspired by an annual meeting of the American Col lege of N europsychopharmacology held in Maui, Hawaii. A panel on psychobiological issues of childhood was held, with presentations devoted to antidepressant drug levels in depressed prepubertal children, re sponses of normal and...
Communimetrics
A Communication Theory of Measurement in Human Service Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2009
Measurement in human services means one thing: how well the effort serves clients. But the data doesn’t exist in a vacuum and must be communicated clearly between provider and client, provider and management, and across systems. During the past decade, innovative communimetric measures have helped...
Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents
Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This book serves as an up-to-date Rorschach primer and elaborates on the various applications of Rorschach assessment for adolescents with respect to differential diagnosis, forensic consultation, and therapeutic assessment. It opens with three chapters that provide readers with a basic overview and...
Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong
Theory, Intervention and Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
This book reviews the theories regarding commonly occurring developmental issues among Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong, the application of Positive Youth Development (PYD) to a large-scale primary prevention program and the impact of PYD on student well-being, indexed according to adolescent developmental...
Child Rights Education for Inclusion and Protection
Primary Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
The aims of child rights education are to make children and their primary duty-bearers aware of child rights so that they both can be empowered to together advocate for and apply them at their family, school and community levels. This sourcebook focuses on child rights education for primary prevention...
by Joan Swart, Christopher K. Bass, Jack A. Apsche
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
A new take on therapeutic mindfulness with specific applications to troubled and delinquent youth is the focus of this innovative text. It introduces Family Mode Deactivation Therapy (FMDT) and its core concepts and methodologies, differentiating it from other cognitive and mindfulness therapies for...
A Question of Technique
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
A Question of Technique focuses on what actually happens in the therapy room and on the technical decisions and pressures that are faced daily.
Coming from the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis, the contributors, a range of experienced practitioners and teachers, describe how...
Writing
A Mosaic of New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development...
The Nurture Assumption
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
How much credit do parents deserve when their children turn out welt? How much blame when they turn out badly? Judith Rich Harris has a message that will change parents' lives: The "nurture assumption" -- the belief that what makes children turn out the way they...
by Don McNicol
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
A Primer of Signal Detection Theory is being reprinted to fill the gap in literature on Signal Detection Theory--a theory that is still important in psychology, hearing, vision, audiology, and related subjects. This book is intended to present the methods of Signal Detection Theory to a person with...