Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Maternal Sensitivity
Mary Ainsworth's Enduring Influence on Attachment Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Mary Ainsworth’s work on the importance maternal sensitivity for the development of infant attachment security is widely recognized as one of the most revolutionary and influential contributions to developmental psychology in the 20th century. Her longitudinal studies of naturalistic mother-infant...
Working with Traumatic Brain Injury in Schools
Transition, Assessment, and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Every day, children and adolescents worldwide return to the educational setting having sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI). The possible negative consequences of TBI range from mild to severe and include neurological, cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral difficulties. Within the school...
Family-Focused Trauma Intervention
Using Metaphor and Play with Victims of Abuse and Neglect
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Treatment of abuse and neglect needs to be family-focused in order to reduce troubling symptoms, address family risk and relapse potential, treat cross-generational patterns, and remediate attachment deficits. Evidence-based practices are available for child and family abuse treatment, including Trauma...
Causality and Development
Neo-Eriksonian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The third book in Young’s unique trilogy on causality and development continues to locate and define the central role of causality in biopsychosocial and network/systems development, and as a unifying concept of psychology itself. As a way of discussing causality, in general, initially, the book...
Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Individual and Relational Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
Focuses heavily on contemporary approaches and cross-professional applications
This book emphasizes "big picture" frameworks to conceptualize how major theories of counseling and psychotherapy operate and compare. This innovative new text presents theories using an "paradigm" framework: the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Presenting cutting-edge research conducted with children, adolescents, and their caregivers, this e-book examines cognitive factors in the development of psychopathology. Investigators at the forefront of the field discuss different types of cognitive vulnerability and their links to depression, anxiety,...
Cyberbullying Across the Globe
Gender, Family, and Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book provides a much-needed analysis of the current research in the global epidemic of electronic bullying. Scholars and professionals from the Americas, Europe, and Asia offer data, insights, and solutions, acknowledging both the social psychology and technological contexts underlying cyberbullying...
by Lisa A. Ruble, Nancy J. Dalrymple, John H. McGrew
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Rising numbers of young children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders means more students with ASD entering pre-school and the elementary grades. For these young learners, individualized instruction toward measurable goals is crucial to effective education. The COMPASS program—Collaborative...
Evidence-Based School Mental Health Services
Affect Education, Emotion Regulation Training, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
The challenges of providing mental health services to school children are numerous and diverse, ranging from staffing shortages to insufficient funding to family resistance to administrative indifference. Yet with the U.S. Surgeon General estimating that approximately 20% of young people display signs...
Mental Health Screening at School
Instrumentation, Implementation, and Critical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This volume examines the use of prediagnostic mental health screening as part of preventive services in primary and secondary schools. It presents the theory underlying mental health screening for children and the obstacles against its widespread implementation. Empirical findings illustrate the potential...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
This handbook synthesizes and integrates the science of internalizing and externalizing childhood disorders with the diagnostic structure of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – 5th Edition (DSM-5) of the American Psychiatric Association. It offers a comprehensive overview of DSM-5 disorders...
Intelligence and Human Progress
The Story of What was Hidden in our Genes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Written by James R. Flynn of the "Flynn effect" (the sustained and substantial increase in intelligence test scores across the world over many decades), Intelligence and Human Progress examines genes and human achievement in all aspects, including what genes allow and forbid in terms of...
The Child at School
Interactions with peers and teachers, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
What is the nature of children’s social life in school?
How do their relationships and interactions with peers, teachers and other school staff influence their development and experience of school?
This book, written by leading researchers in educational and developmental psychology, provides answers...
Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness
An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2007
This new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive experiences. In so doing, it helps us better understand how experience affects brain growth and a child�s capacity to learn. In this interdisciplinary