Child Development category: 2058 books
by C.W. Valentine
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Originally published in 1940, this book was addressed to students of the psychology of childhood and to parents and teachers who were trying to get from psychology some light on problems of discipline and of the difficult child. It includes critical discussions of some ideas which were gaining widespread...
When Your Child Needs Help
A Parent's Guide to Therapy for Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
One of America's top child psychologists provides reassuring advice for parents whose children are experiencing emotional or developmental problems. Here is the essential guide for every parent who is struggling to distinguish typical growing pains from more serious problems.
Children’s Contact with Incarcerated Parents
Implications for Policy and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This Brief explores the potential effects of parent-child contact during incarceration on child and adult relationships, well-being, and parenting as well as corrections-related issues, such as institutional behavior and recidivism. It presents a literature review on what is currently known about...
by Phyllis Brusiloff, Mary Jane Witenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The Hudsons Guild is a long established neighborhood house which offers social, educational, psychiatric, and psychological services to the residents of Chelsea, who are often socially, economically, and educationally, deprived. The many activities of the Hudson Guild Neighborhood House included a...
Intuitive Parenting
How to tune in to your innate wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Reconnect with your parenting intuition and the innate wisdom it provides with simple, practical steps. Reduce stress and overwhelm, and improve your confidence and relationships.
Parents today are inundated with information and expert advice, often contradictory and invariably overwhelming....
Using Self Psychology in Child Psychotherapy
The Restoration of the Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1996
Shows how self psychology allows child patients who were in the past often considered difficult and even untreatable to be understood and effectively helped.
by Gary Unruh
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Providing tried and tested steps that will instill unbounded self-confidence and joy within children, this book will also restore harmony between them and their parents. This guide provides professional advice to help raise a self-confident child, ensures that children will establish good friends...
Assessing and Communicating the Spiritual Needs of Children in Hospital
A new guide for healthcare professionals and chaplains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
What is meant by 'spiritual care'? How can we assess and communicate the needs of a child in hospital effectively if we each have conflicting interpretations of 'spiritual'? This book proposes that we use a language of 'connectedness', which can fully express a child's feelings about, and understanding...
Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline
The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation.
Have you ever opened your mouth to discipline your child, and your parents' nastiest words tumble out? In an era when most parenting books focus on the child, this book supports parents in dealing more positively with themselves as well...
by Katrina Kahler
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Every parent wants the best for their children. We all want them to grow up to be confident and positive adults. Raising a child to be resilient and able to deal with life's ups and downs is also something that most parents strive for. Confident Kids will give you practical strategies for shaping...
The Power of Mother Love
Strengthening the Bond Between You and Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The Power of Mother Love highlights the incredible--although sometimes unrealized--influence that a mother has on her children and her society.
Decades of scientific and psychological study provide overwhelming evidence for the idea that "mother love" has an enormous, permanent impact...
Children in the Holocaust and its Aftermath
Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their...
For Your Own Good
Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst.
With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language,...
Happy Fluent Readers
No tests, no tears.
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Every child wants to learn to read, but sometimes our educational system can take the fun out of it, or worse yet, make him feel like a failure.
Happy Fluent Readers will help you teach your little one to love reading. It guides you step-by-step through the stages of teaching reading, with...