Child Development category: 2058 books
Language Learning
A Special Case for Developmental Psychology?
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, current in the literature for around 30 years at that time, that children could not learn their native language without substantial innate knowledge of its grammatical structure. It is argued that the notion is as problematic...
by R. S. Tumber
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Every parent wants to raise a child who is inquisitive, creative, loving and caring. But parenting in the 21st century can be confusing. Parents are bombarded with conflicting advice on using gadgets, screen time, vaccinations, educational choices, and many other subjects.In this timely book,...
by Robert Jason Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Play-Based Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities contains a wide selection of play therapy interventions for use with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders, dysregulation issues, or other neurodevelopmental disorders. The structured interventions...
A Child's Journey to Recovery
Assessment and Planning with Traumatized Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book describes a practical outcomes-based approach that can be provided by an integrated multi-disciplinary...
by Max Sugar
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The author proposes that the four earliest British North American colonies in the United States promoted the development of distinct regional identities and that this cultural legacy affected identity development as well as behavioral patterns differently in each region. He compares data from the...
Still Growing
The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The later-adult years are commonly viewed as a period in which one struggles to maintain a vestige of the physical, mental, and emotional vitality of one’s earlier years. In 'Still Growing', however, Donald Capps shows that older adulthood is actually a period of growth and development, and that...
by Miriam Cherkes-Julkowski, Nancy Gertner
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The thinking that began this book arose out of some dissatisfaction with the rela tively simplified, unidimensional model of development, which seems to have come to dominate the fields that address the needs of atypically developing chil dren. It seemed impossible to us that developmental differences...
Can We Talk?
About Mental Health in Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2019
'Parental anxiety is natural, but if you think something's wrong - trust your instincts. Talk to your child and seek professional help sooner, rather than later'. - Dr Sarah Vohra
How do you know what to worry about - and what not to worry about?
How do you keep the lines of communication open?
When...
Logical Abilities in Children: Volume 4
Reasoning and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Originally published in 1976, this fourth and final volume in a series that met with critical acclaim is concerned with a certain kind of answer to the question "What distinguishes the concepts that are a natural part of human languages from those that are merely expressible in language?"...
by Craig Winston LeCroy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
With the advance of evidence-based practice has come the publication of numerous dense volumes reviewing the theoretical and empirical components of child and adolescent treatment. There are also a variety of detailed treatment manuals that describe the step-by-step procedures to guide ongoing research...
Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup
Research, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book should be of interest to scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners alike. Scholars, researchers, and students of personal relationship development will recognize in this book the first serious attempt in over 40 years to do a large-scale, longitudinal study of premarital factors...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Cognitive development in children is a highly complex process which, while remarkably resilient, can be disrupted in a variety of ways. This volume focuses on two types of neurodevelopmental disorder: syndromic conditions such as fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome and velocardiofacial...
Normal Children Have Problems, Too
How Parents Can Understand and Help
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Lack of friends * poor self-image * sibling rivalry * hyperactivity * sadness and fearfulness * eating problems * nervous habits * aggressive behavior * defiance * sleep problems * lying * learning disabilities. . .
Even normal children can have problems.
And parents can help them.
That...
Between Parent and Child: Revised and Updated
The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Strengthen your relationship with your children with this revised edition of the book by renowned psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott that has helped millions of parents around the world.
In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinical psychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and family...