Child Development category: 2058 books
Rhythms of Learning
What Waldorf Education Offers Children, Parents & Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Waldorf education, an established and growing independent school movement, continues to be shaped and inspired by Rudolf Steiner's numerous lectures on education. In Rhythms of Learning, key lectures on children and education have been thoughtfully chosen from the vast amount of material by Steiner and...
Children First
What Society Must Do--and is Not Doing--for Children Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Children First is the most important and urgent book on childcare we have yet had from the internationally admired author of the classic Your Baby & Child.
In it Penelope Leach calls on us as individuals and as a nation to make good on the promise of our endless rhetoric about the importance...
by Dianne Maroney
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Imagine Project is a How-to guide that helps parents, teachers, and counselors support kids who are dealing drama, trauma, and stress. Beyond the explanations about emotional wellness, how stress affects a child, and the impact of trauma on a child, there are thorough instructions about how to...
Theory of Mind
How Children Understand Others' Thoughts and Feelings
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Most of us are continually aware that others have thoughts and feelings – but are children? When? This book is a concise and readable review of the extensive research into children’s understanding of what other people think and feel, a central topic in developmental psychology known as "Theory...
by Jodie Hampshire, Selina Smyth, Tammie Flinos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This is the book the authors wish they had a decade ago as they started out to raise healthy and resilient adopted children – and stay sane in the process.
You’ve completed the paperwork, waited and waited and then waited some more. Then, your adopted child is yours to parent. And you plan...
Clinical Skills in Infant Mental Health
The first three years
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
What is mental health in infancy and early childhood and why is it important? How does the infant-parent relationship influence development, and how do these early experiences shape our lives? How can clinical assessment and intervention focus on these early relationships to improve developmental...
by Ray Mathis
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Parenting and teaching can be tough. It's easy to generate more emotion than is helpful and make mistakes, especially with the most troubled and troublesome young people. This book was written by a health education teacher who became certified in cognitive behavioral therapy to better understand...
Vygotsky’s Notebooks
A Selection
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book consists of previously unpublished manuscripts by Vygotsky found in the first systematic study of Vygotsky’s family archive. The notebooks and scientific diaries gathered in this volume represent all periods of Vygotsky’s scientific life, beginning with the earliest manuscript, entitled...
Transforming Children's Mental Health Policy into Practice
Lessons from Virginia and Other States' Experiences Creating and Sustaining Comprehensive Systems of Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the long term impact of service reform in children’s mental health, focusing on comprehensive state and local initiatives to improve care for children with serious behavioral health and their families to illustrate how programmatic and contextual forces influence policy and practice...
New Families, Old Scripts
A Guide to the Language of Trauma and Attachment in Adoptive Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Most adopted children and their families will, sooner or later, encounter the challenges of dealing with unresolved attachment issues or early traumatic experiences.
New Families, Old Scripts is an accessible introduction to understanding these challenges and helping children and their families...
The Transition to Adulthood and Family Relations
An Intergenerational Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book explores the development of a new path of transition between adolescence and adulthood in recent generations. Whereas traditionally the transition into adulthood was marked by a clear and irreversible change in condition, we are now seeing a continuance in the role and influence of the...
Reimagining the Purpose of Schools and Educational Organisations
Developing Critical Thinking, Agency, Beliefs in Schools and Educational Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book features a diverse set of perspectives all focused towards questioning the role schools actually play in society and, more importantly, the role they could potentially play. Containing papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Reimagining Schooling which took place in Thessaloniki,...
Treating NVLD in Children
Professional Collaborations for Positive Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NVLD) have needs that can take many forms and may, over time, require consultation and collaboration with professionals from several fields. Given that multiple specialists may be involved in working with children with NVLD – as well as the array of...
Developing Thinking
Approaches to Children's Cognitive Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
How children’s thinking develops and how it can be developed in education are among the most important questions in psychology. Studies of cognition in adults need to be supplemented by the developmental perspective, which often transforms them. Educational objectives will be most efficiently achieved...