Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
by Anthony P. Jurich
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents. It aims not to replace other forms of therapy but to augment the therapist’s own therapeutic style.
The book...
Trauma in the Lives of Children
Crisis and Stress Management Techniques for Counselors, Teachers, and Other Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2002
This is an invaluable source for educating professionals and families about helping children regain security in times of trauma. Using a solutions-based interdisciplinary approach, this illustrated book explains how children react to specific types of trauma and how to work with a traumatized child....
A Therapist's Guide to Child Development
The Extraordinarily Normal Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
A Therapist's Guide to Child Development gives therapists and counselors the basics they need to understand their clients in the context of development and to explain development to parents. The chapters take the reader through the various physical, social, and identity developments occurring at each...
What to Do When Children Clam Up in Psychotherapy
Interventions to Facilitate Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Therapists who work with children and adolescents are frequently faced with nonresponsive, reticent, or completely nonverbal clients. This volume brings together expert clinicians who explore why 4- to 16-year-olds may have difficulty talking and provide creative ways to facilitate communication....
Children of Neglect
When No One Cares
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This book contains a comprehensive review of the current state of child neglect. Included are statistics regarding incidence and lethality, definitional issues, etiological theory, history of and current policy, and current interventions. As child neglect is often linked with structural issues, the book also examines the relationship of child neglect to poverty, substance abuse and culture.
Trauma and Dissociation in Convicted Offenders
Gender, Science, and Treatment Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Better understand the men and women most affected by trauma in our society
Convicted offenders quite often are found to have a history of trauma. Trauma and Dissociation in Convicted Offenders: Gender, Science, and Treatment Issues provides a comprehensive look at the connection between complex...
Not Just Spirited
A Mom's Sensational Journey with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What would you do if your child suffered with something so severe it affected every aspect of her life?
And what if your cries for help fell on deaf ears at every turn? You'd follow your gut and fight until someone listened. And that's what Chynna Laird did. When she was just three months old,...
10 Days to a Less Defiant Child, second edition
The Breakthrough Program for Overcoming Your Child's Difficult Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The popular, powerful guide to help parents regain control over a defiant child or teenager
Occasional clashes between parents and children are not uncommon, but when defiant behavior-including tantrums, resistance to chores, and negativity-becomes chronic, it causes big problems within the...
When Children Grieve
For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss.
In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children...
Asperger's Syndrome
Intervening in Schools, Clinics, and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
In recent years, a growing number of children and adults have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a neurological condition characterized by severe difficulties with social communication. While extremely talented in their areas of special interest, many with the diagnosis also have problems with...
by Kevin J. O'Connor, Charles E. Schaefer, Lisa D. Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A complete, comprehensive play therapy resource for mental health professionals
Handbook of Play Therapy is the one-stop resource for play therapists with coverage of all major aspects written by experts in the field. This edition consolidates the coverage of both previous volumes into one...
by Daniel A. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
An expert clinician brings attachment theory into the realm of parenting skills.
Attachment security and affect regulation have long been buzzwords in therapy circles, but many of these ideas—so integral to successful therapeutic work with kids and adolescents— have yet to be effectively...
Spare the Kids
Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A challenge to the cultural tradition of corporal punishment in Black homes and its connections to racial violence in America
Why do so many African Americans have such a special attachment to whupping children? Studies show that nearly 80 percent of black parents see spanking, popping, pinching,...
Before It's Too Late
Why Some Kids Get Into Trouble--and What Parents Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This is a body of work which gives concerned parents and professionals instructive insight into the personality of "problem children" and gives practical suggestions for taking corrective and remedial steps before it's too late.