Adolescent Psychology list 70

Another Chance to be Real

Attachment and Object Relations Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

by Donald D. Roberts, Deanda S. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007

By most accounts, people with a borderline personality disorder prove exceptionally difficult to treat. Divergent opinions abound about what, if anything, contributes to a positive outcome. Is it the quality of the relationship with the psychotherapist that is curative, in that the careful attunement...

Childhood Friendships and Peer Relations

Friends and Enemies

by Barry Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016

In the second edition of his unique study of peer relationships in childhood, Dr Barry Schneider re-examines this fundamental aspect of childhood. Taking the work of Jacob Moreno as its starting point, the book provides an up-to-date and accessible understanding of how children develop social competence...

Returning Home

Reconnecting with Our Childhoods

by Jerry M. Burger
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011

Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home. Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them. Often serving several important psychological needs, these trips are not intended as visits with people from their past. Rather, those returning to their homes have a strong desire to...

Developing Thinking

Approaches to Children's Cognitive Development

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017

How children’s thinking develops and how it can be developed in education are among the most important questions in psychology. Studies of cognition in adults need to be supplemented by the developmental perspective, which often transforms them. Educational objectives will be most efficiently achieved...

Acting Out

Understanding and Reducing Aggressive Behaviour in Children and Youth

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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007

Are you one of the thousands of Canadians who work or volunteer with children and youth? Do you know: • how to respond effectively when a young person behaves aggressively? • what kinds of aggression are considered normal for a young person’s age and stage of development? • what kinds...

Family-School Partnerships in Context

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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

This volume focuses on context considerations in family-school partnership research. The book examines how cultural diversity, including differences in parenting (e.g., race, education, family history) and diverse school variables (e.g., location, population, organization,) can affect family-school...

Foundational Aspects of Family-School Partnership Research

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015

This volume focuses on how family-school partnerships are conceptualized, defined, and operationalized as well as the research that is needed to advance these foundational issues. Each chapter integrates prevailing approaches into a research-based framework for supporting learning from pre-K through...

Child and Family Advocacy

Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy

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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013

Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience—doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them. More than ever, the responsibility of the helping professions extends from aiding individuals and families to securing social justice...

Mindful Parenting

A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners

by Susan Bögels, Kathleen Restifo
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013

Despite its inherent joys, the challenges of parenting can produce considerable stress. These challenges multiply—and the quality of parenting suffers—when a parent or child has mental health issues, or when parents are in conflict. Even under optimal circumstances, the constant changes as children...

Processes and Pathways of Family-School Partnerships Across Development

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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015

This book explores research on processes that influence family-school partnerships in support of student learning and education. It highlights research related to culture, contexts, and development as families and schools work together to promote smooth transitions and academic achievement. The volume...

Suicide

Strategies and Interventions for Reduction and Prevention

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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

All practitioners working in the caring and helping professions face many challenges and questions when dealing with suicidal clients: Is this client being serious? Can I do more? What should I do? Should I refer on? Should I break confidentiality? Have I assessed this client correctly? Both experienced...

Trauma-Attachment Tangle

Modifying EMDR to Help Children Resolve Trauma and Develop Loving Relationships

by Joan Lovett
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014

Trauma-Attachment Tangle offers informative and inspiring clinical stories of children who have complex trauma and attachment issues from experiences such as adoption, hospitalization, or death of a parent. Some of these children display puzzling or extreme symptoms like prolonged tantrums, self-hatred,...

EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children, Second Edition

Infants to Adolescents Treatment Manual

by Robbie Adler-Tapia, PhD, Carolyn Settle
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016

Expanded to include EMDR Therapy with infants to adolescents, this updated and revised manual—the only resource of its kind--accompanies the new second edition of the widely praised foundational text, EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children. The manual distills simple and practical ways...