Child Development category: 2058 books
Life and Loss
A Guide to Help Grieving Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Many clinicians recognize that denying or ignoring grief issues in children leaves them feeling alone and that acknowledging loss is crucial part of a child’s healthy development. Really dealing with loss in productive ways, however, is sometimes easier said than done. For decades, Life and Loss...
Empathic Care for Children with Disorganized Attachments
A Model for Mentalizing, Attachment and Trauma-Informed Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Disorganized attachment is the most extreme form of insecure attachment. This book is a practical guide to caring for children and young people with disorganized attachment and related emotional and psychological difficulties.
Synthesising attachment, trauma and mentalization theory into a...
Parenting in Transracial Adoption: Real Questions and Real Answers
Real Questions and Real Answers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children identified as being of a different race, this book draws from real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after transracial adoption. Its goal: to help adoptive parents (and child welfare...
Preschool Clues
Raising Smart, Inspired, and Engaged Kids in a Screen-Filled World
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The award-winning creator of Blue’s Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood shares the secret sauce behind her shows’ powerful, transformative results in the form of eleven research-based, foundational “clues” to ensure that preschoolers flourish academically, socially, and emotionally...
Child's Play
Developmental and Applied
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Originally published in 1984, a major purpose of this book was to bring together in a single volume, work that reflects the wide range of interests that social and behavioural scientists have in play, development and the environment. The intent of the book was to refine and extend concepts and methodologies...
The Child as Thinker
The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Making It Better
Activities for Children Living in a Stressful World
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Unfortunately, traumatic and stressful events are a part of many young children’s lives. With nearly 20,000 copies of the first edition (ISBN 978-1-884834-26-4) in print, this is a popular resource for guidance counselors, law enforcement, and teachers caring for children who have experienced traumatic...
The Emotional Lives of Animals & Children
Insights from a Farm Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In 2008, Bill Crain, a professor of psychology at The City College of New York, and his wife Ellen, a pediatrician, opened Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary in Poughquag, New York. The sanctuary provides a permanent home to over 70 animals rescued from slaughter and abusive situations, including goats, sheep,...
Parenting Without Guilt
A Parent's Guide To Practical Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
There are times when what a youngster does or says is absolutely baffling to mom or dad. How can 15-year-old Sarah spend hours prepping her hair and not give one second to cleaning her room? Likewise, what’s wrong with 10-year-old Mark who knows he shouldn’t bully his little brother but does so...
by Diane Obbema
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Every parent wants to protect their child from harm, but is there a way to prepare young children to be safe from sexual abuse without frightening them or damaging their innocence? Detective Diane Obbema, a 30-year veteran of law enforcement, offers critical choices that parents can make to fortify...
Helping Children with Their Feelings
Activities & Games for All Kinds of Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Providing the basics of a child’s emotional development, this book pays particular attention to children who have learning challenges related to autism, ADHD, sensory issues, or other developmental delays A short course for busy parents, teachers, and professionals, Helping Children with Their...
Safe and Sound
Protecting Your Child in an Unpredictable World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Drawing on research in child development and extensive interviews with families, journalist Vanessa Ochs helps parents make sensible, age-appropriate decisions about when to protect and when to let go and provides strategies for taming their irrational fears and transforming them into manageable ones....
by Colby Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
A child's capacity to cope with adversity and 'stand on their own two feet' is seen as critical to their development, well-being, and future independence and success in adulthood. Psychological strength, or resilience, directly affects a child's capacity to cope with adversity.
This book provides...
Children's Saving
A Study in the Development of Economic Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1993, this book presents an alternative approach to the study of the emergence of economic awareness during childhood: a new developmental economic psychology!
In the past, attempts to study the emergence of children’s economic consciousness have failed to take account...