Child Development category: 2058 books
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition
A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
The perennial favorite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with ease—now in a completely revised and expanded fourth edition!
In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country’s leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving...
Cognitive Development
An Advanced Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
This new text consists of parts of Bornstein and Lamb’s Developmental Science, 6th edition along with new introductory material that as a whole provides a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of cognitive development. Each of the world-renowned contributors masterfully introduces the history...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
For young children, two of the most important tasks they face are learning how to communicate and learning how to think about themselves and the social world around them. The premise of this book is that these two tasks are inherently linked. The communicative routines and language that children learn...
Child Neuropsychology
Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
During the past decade, significant advances have been made in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders, resulting in a considerable impact on conceptualization, diagnostics, and practice. The second edition of Child Neuropsychology: Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders brings...
Summary of The Whole-Brain Child
by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Summary of The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson | Includes Analysis Preview: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson offers recommendations for a whole-brainapproach to parenting. This approach emphasizes the importance...
Kids' Slips
What Young Children's Slips of the Tongue Reveal About Language Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
The study of speech errors, or "slips of the tongue," is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning. However, until Kids' Slips,...
Emotional Development and Families
Socialization across the lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
This lively and engaging book conducts a thorough review of the current research literature in developmental psychology and socialisation, and then clearly links theory to practical applications in both clinical and everyday situations. Life’s first important lessons on how to handle emotions often...
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing aggressive behaviors from birth through adolescence. Hostile destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and often create serious problems for society,...
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse
Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on this revolutionary legacy, feminism and post-structuralism to critically examine current perceptions...
Child and Family Advocacy
Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience—doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them. More than ever, the responsibility of the helping professions extends from aiding individuals and families to securing social justice...
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts
A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt. As experts on adoption and fostering who are adoptive parents themselves, Caroline Archer and Christine...
Silence is Not Golden
Strategies for Helping the Shy Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Chronic shyness can pose a serious threat to a child's academic, emotional, and social development. Children who are extremely shy may miss out on important learning opportunities, have trouble making friends, and avoid activities and events that they might otherwise enjoy. This can be troubling for...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled “P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes.
This pioneer project was conducted in Hong...
by Michael Lewis, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory, Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first, infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These "action patterns" are not learned,...