Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline
The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation.
Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child, and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves as well...
Bullied
What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
The mother of a bullied first grader, popular blogger Carrie Goldman’s inspiring true story triggered an outpouring of support from online communities around the world. In Bullied, she gives us a guide to the crucial lessons and actionable guidance she’s learned about how to stop bullying before...
Freeing Your Child from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A Powerful, Practical Program for Parents of Children and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
If you're a parent of one of the more than one million children in this country with obsessive-compulsive disorder, you know how confusing, even frightening, the symptoms of OCD can be. You're terrified of losing your child and angry about the havoc this disorder has wreaked in your family. More than...
Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, Revised and Updated Edition
Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life--from Toddlers to Teens
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Childhood should be a happy, carefree time.
Too many children are stressed-out and exhibiting symptoms of anxiety. In Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, childhood anxiety expert Dr. Tamar Chansky shares a proven approach for helping children build emotional resilience for a happier and healthier...
The Growth Mindset Coach
A Teacher's Month-by-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A complete and easy-to-follow guide for inspiring every student with the power of growth mindset
Created by teachers for teachers, this is the ultimate guide for unleashing students’ potential through creative lessons, empowering messages and innovative teaching. The Growth Mindset Coach provides...
The Marshmallow Test
Mastering Self-Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.
A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her...
by Burma Bertozzi
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2012
Childhood schizophrenia is one of several types of schizophrenia, a chronic mental illness in which a person loses touch with reality (psychosis). Childhood schizophrenia is essentially the same as schizophrenia in adults, but it occurs early in life — sometimes even before the teen years — and...
The First Years Last Forever
Parental guide to early childhood behavior and development
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
In this thought-provoking book, the author examines the behavior of young children in a developmental context, taking into consideration the changes as young children grow and develop. The book will show parents and caregivers ways to deal with the kids in the various stages of their life, starting from...
The Dark Side of Innocence
Growing Up Bipolar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable.”
As a young girl, Terri Cheney’s life looked perfect. Her family lived in a lovely house in a tranquil Los Angeles suburb where the geraniums never once failed to bloom. She...
Your Seven-Year-Old
Life in a Minor Key
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Your Seven-Year-Old is devoted to the delightful but often anxious and withdrawn child of Seven. Although any seven-year-old will have moments of exuberance, security, and happiness, in general this is an age of introspection. As it begins, parents and teachers may welcome the quiet after the tussles...
Just Babies
The Origins of Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone.
From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is...
Brain-Based Learning and Education
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Brain-Based Learning and Education presents a new type of education that uses brain-based and self-control theory-driven training. Leaving aside the current focus in education on content knowledge, it examines essential character strengths such as selfcontrol, persistence, creativity, attention,...
by Stacey S Horn, Martin D Ruck, Lynn S Liben
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
The first of two volumes in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, Equity and Justice in Developmental Science: Theoretical and Methodological Issues focuses on conceptual issues, definitions, and critical concepts relevant to equity and justice for the developmental sciences. This...
Stolen Child
A Mother's Journey to Rescue Her Son from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016
A year in the desperate life of a boy transformed by OCD from a bright ten-year-old into a stranger in his own skin.
Although Laurie Gough was an intrepid traveller who had explored wild, far-off reaches of the globe, the journey she and her family took in their own home in their small Quebec...