Adolescent Psychology category: 2820 books
What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage
It May Be Your Marriage, but It's Your Child's Blueprint for Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
How are your children learning about intimacy? What are they seeing when they watch you interacting with your spouse? In a ground breaking approach to family dynamics, What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage shows how a child's perception of the marriage his or her parents have created...
Help for Worried Kids
How Your Child Can Conquer Anxiety and Fear
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
If your son begs to stay home from school to avoid speaking in front of the class, should you be worried? If your daughter insists on crossing the street whenever she sees a dog, what should you do? A simple evaluation devised by renowned psychologist Dr. Cynthia G. Last can help you determine if...
Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up
Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked...
Helping Teens Who Cut, Second Edition
Using DBT® Skills to End Self-Injury
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Discovering that your teen “cuts” is every parent's nightmare. Your most urgent question is: "How can I make it stop?" Tens of thousands of worried parents have turned to this authoritative guide for information and practical guidance about the growing problem of teen self-injury. Dr....
The Scientist In The Crib
Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them.It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is...
Boys of Few Words
Raising Our Sons to Communicate and Connect
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
When your son responds to personal questions with a blank stare, or quickly changes the topic, you might chalk it up to “boys will be boys”--but still worry that something is missing in your relationship or troubling your child. You could be right on both counts. Whether your son needs to talk...
Counselling Children, Adolescents and Families
A Strengths-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
`I recommend this book to anyone who lives or works with families, children or teenagers' - Nurturing Potential
`This is a valuable book, worth attention in every child and family service. My own agency has ordered a copy!' - Robert Cumming, Nurturing Potential
`John Sharry's book is...
Media Moms & Digital Dads
A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Is social media ruining our kids? How much Internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? Are you curious about what research says about how media and technology are affecting childhood? Supported by academic research focused on technology,...
Narrative Play Therapy
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Narrative Play Therapy is a highly effective play-based psychological intervention that enables therapists to help children communicate difficult experiences and complex emotions through co-constructed stories. This is the definitive guide to the approach, offering both a coherent theoretical outline...
The Grieving Teen
A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2001
In this unique and compassionate guide, renowned grief counselor Helen Fitzgerald turns her attention to the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives teens the tools they need to work through their pain and grief.
Although the circumstances surrounding a death are difficult...
Bridges to Success
Keys to Transforming Learning Difficulties; Simple skills for families and teachers to bring success to those with Dyslexia or Autism using NLP and Energetic NLP
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
When you know something works you have to teach others. Learn how to transform learning difficulties into successful learning differences, enabling youngsters and adults alike to succeed. Bridges to Success offers visually talented yet challenged individuals a completely new perspective, empowering...
by Graham Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
10 Years of research.10 Stories revealing the emotional relationship between young people and their mobile phones from the world's leading authority of youth mobile culture, Graham Brown.Mobile Youth will take you on a journey through the deserts of Saudi Arabia, the urban explosion of Tokyo, and the dangerous alleyways of Rio di Janeiro.
Stress and Your Child
Helping Kids Cope with the Strains and Pressures of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
GIVE YOUR CHILDREN BACK THEIR CHILDHOOD.
We like to think of childhood as a carefree, relaxed time of life, but the truth is, children today experience more stress than ever before: parents' fast-paced lifestyles, the frequent breakup of families, urban crime, schools in turmoil, and a host of other...
The Sibling Effect
What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A senior writer at Time magazine explores what scientists and researchers are discovering about sibling bonds, the longest- lasting relationships we have in our lives.
Nobody affects us as deeply as our brothers and sisters-not parents, not children, not friends. From the time we-and they-are...