Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Residential Interventions for Children, Adolescents, and Families
A Best Practice Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Now more than ever there is a need to ensure that best practices are being used in residential programs. As the focus on costs and outcomes increase, residential programs must clearly demonstrate that the interventions provided are efficient and effective. Readers will learn how to:
Create strength-based,...
The Yes Brain
How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
From the authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline, an indispensable guide to unlocking your child’s innate capacity for resilience, compassion, and creativity.
When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut down,...
Motivating Humans
Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1992
This volume provides a precise and comprehensive description of human motivation. Drawing on psychology, education and management, Ford integrates classic and contemporary motivation theory into a unified framework - Motivational Systems Theory - from which he derives 17 principles for motivating...
To Heal a Wounded Heart
The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking. Challenged by the limitations of her training to respond effectively to the isolating effect of childhood trauma, Jennings...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1999
This volume addresses topics related to the nature of the stress response, the role of environment in individual differences in stress, and the different strategies used for coping with stressful events. The chapters present theoretical and empirical work focused on a wide range of issues related...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Identity is one of the most extensively studied constructs in the social sciences. Yet, despite the wealth of findings across many disciplines, identity researchers remain divided over such enduring fundamental questions as: What exactly is identity, and how do identity processes function? Do people...
Creative Expressive Activities and Asperger's Syndrome
Social and Emotional Skills and Positive Life Goals for Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) benefit from a positive, affirming support of their individuality. This forward-looking book focuses on building individual strengths and resilience, rather than modifying perceived weaknesses, through individualized therapy within a group context.
Integrating...
A Practical Guide to Child Psychology
Understand Your Kids and Enjoy Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Embrace the ups and downs of parenting.
Guided by experts in children’s development, explore new approaches to parenting, understand how they can benefit your family and learn how to put them into practice straight away.
Accepting that every child is unique, and that parenting is a...
The Infinite Gift
How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
A child's very first word is a miraculous sound, the opening note in a lifelong symphony. Most parents never forget the moment. But that first word is soon followed by a second and a third, and by the age of three, children are typically learning ten new words every day and speaking in complete sentences....
Monsters Under the Bed and Other Childhood Fears
Helping Your Child Overcome Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
**A step-by-step manual designed to help parents cope with children's fears; Monsters Under the Bed and Other Childhood Fears discusses common fears, how to respond to childhood anxieties, and other ways to deal with frightened children.
“With the culture getting scarier and parents getting...
Quiet at School
An Educator's Guide to Shy Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Compared to their more sociable counterparts, shy children are at greater risk for a variety of difficulties in elementary school, including internalizing problems, difficulties with peer relationships, and poorer academic performance. Written by a developmental and an educational psychologist with...
Youth Violence
Theory, Prevention, and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
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In the U.S., youth violence is the second leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 10 and 24. This volume, authored by a noted psychotherapist with more than 30 years of experience in family violence, examines recent violent episodes perpetrated by young offenders...
Delinquent Girls
Contexts, Relationships, and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Traditionally, delinquent girls were considered an anomaly, a rare phenomenon attracting little scholarly notice. Today, more than one in four youth offenders is female, and researchers and practitioners alike are quickly turning their attention and resources to address this challenging situation....
Play Therapy in Action
A Casebook for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives. The goal is to reflect the broad spectrum of approaches that now exist in the field. The major psychopathologies in children present the therapist with different...