Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse
Identification, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
A comprehensive guide to the identification, assessment, and treatment of child sexual abuse
The field of child sexual abuse has experienced an explosion of research, literature, and enhanced treatment methods over the last thirty years. Representing the latest refinements of thought in this...
The Sensory-Sensitive Child
Practical Solutions for Out-of-Bounds Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In a book likely to transform how parents manage many of their child's daily struggles, Drs. Smith and Gouze explain the central and frequently unrecognized role that sensory processing problems play in a child's emotional and behavioral difficulties. Practicing child psychologists, and themselves...
Latina Girls
Voices of Adolescent Strength in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Latinas are now the largest minority group of girls in the country. Yet the research about this group is sparse, and there is a lack of information to guide studies, services or education for the rapidly growing Latino population across the U.S. The existing research has focused on stereotypical perceptions...
Figurations
Child, Bodies, Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically,...
Child Psychotherapy and Research
New Approaches, Emerging Findings
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Child Psychotherapy and Research brings together some of the most exciting and innovative research activity taking place within psychoanalytic child psychotherapy today.
Drawing on the expertise of an international range of contributors, this book describes work at the cutting edge of research...
Illegal Leisure Revisited
Changing Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Use in Adolescents and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular drinking and extensive ‘recreational’...
by Toni L. Hembree-Kigin, Cheryl Bodiford McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Over the past two decades, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) emerged as a leading-edge method for helping parents improve their children's disruptive and oppositional behavior. Today, PCIT has a robust evidence base; is used across the country in settings as diverse as hospitals, mental health...
Pride in the Projects
Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2008
Teens in America’s inner cities grow up and construct identities amidst a landscape of relationships and violence, support and discrimination, games and gangs. In such contexts, local environments such as after-school programs may help youth to mediate between social stereotypes and daily experience,...
Fathers and Adolescents
Developmental and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The understanding and study of fathers has traditionally assumed that fathers, compared to mothers, are less involved with their children. Originally published in 1997 Fathers and Adolescents presents a different approach that focuses on the distinctive role of fathers in the lives of their adolescents,...
An Ounce of Prevention
How to Know When Your Children Will Outg
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Most parents understand the importance of prevention when it comes to the physical health and safety of their children. But what many parents don't realize is that it is also possible to use preventive measures for emotional and behavorial problems. As child psychologist Dr. Lawrence E. Shapiro explains...
Child Safety, Welfare and Well-being
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
This volume presents the unique features of child abuse and neglect and discusses proposed as well as experimented protective measures to create awareness about child rights and their implementation. Divided into four sections, the volume discusses (a) the nature and prevalence of child abuse and...
Teenage Pregnancy and Young Parenthood
Effective Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Teenage Pregnancy and Young Parenthood provides a comprehensive, unparalleled insight into the UK Government’s highly successful Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (TPS) for England which reduced the under-18 pregnancy rate by well over 50%, and considers how the lessons from this policy can be applied...
Community Action Research
Benefits to Community Members and Service Providers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Discover how to better help those in your community in need of services
Community Action Research comprehensively explores models for community action research, incorporating quantitative and qualitative research to highlight the advantages to community members as well as the volunteers/paraprofessionals...
Born Reading
Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children’s book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.
Every parent wants...