Child Development category: 2058 books
Kids' Club Letters
Narrative Tools for Stimulating Process and Dialogue in Therapy Groups for Children and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
Kids' Club Letters provides an innovative approach to group psychotherapy for school-aged children who experience a range of social and emotional problems. A narrative therapy approach is adapted, taking the form of letters written by the therapist in the voice of a child who is asking for advice...
Infants, Toddlers, and Families in Poverty
Research Implications for Early Child Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and intervention practices specifically tailored to these children and families' needs. Leading authorities from multiple disciplines present cutting-edge research...
by Charles A. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and human interaction. Compared with children in foster care, the institutionalized children in this rigorous twelve‐year study showed severe impairment in IQ and brain development, along with social and emotional disorders.
Aggression and Destructiveness
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Why, when and how does aggression go wrong?
How can we make sense of apparently meaningless destructiveness and violence
Aggression is a part of human nature that energises our relationships, acts as an impetus for psychic development, and enables us to master our world. More often,...
The Essential Child
Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as "dog," "man," or "intelligence," have an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea come from? In this book, Susan Gelman argues that essentialism is an early cognitive bias. Young children's concepts...
Regulatory Disorders in Infants
Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This innovative book discusses current findings on regulatory disorders in infants and offers practical guidelines for diagnosis and intervention. Focusing on core infant and toddler concerns including crying, sleeping, feeding, clinginess, and aggression, it presents a developmental continuum from...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
One of the liveliest areas of research in the social sciences is reading. Scholarly activity is currently proceeding along a number of different disciplinary lines, addressing a multitude of questions and issues about reading. A short list of disciplines involved in the study of reading would include...
Language Processing Problems
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Language Processing Problems: A Guide for Parents and Teachers is an easy-to-read but thorough treatment of a problem which is quite prevalent but often overlooked. Children (and adults) vary in their language processing capacities. Recognizing this variation can be very useful in understanding why...
Group Therapy with Children
Psychodrama with Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Peer groups have a great significance in children’s development. Since children express their problems through play and action, Alfons Aichinger and Walter Holl have developed the basic ideas and intervention possibilities of psychodrama for group therapy work with children in a process spanning...
Developmental Psychology
A Course Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Developmental Psychology provides student readers with essential help in all aspects of their first course in developmental psychology, including advice on revising exams, preparing and writing course assessment materials, and enhancing and progressing their knowledge and skills in line with course...
by T. Berry Brazelton, Joshua Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
For decades, new parents have relied on Dr. Brazelton's wisdom. But all "Brazelton babies" grow up. Now at last, the internationally famous pediatrician, in collaboration with an eminent child psychiatrist, has brought his unique insights to the "magic" preschool and first-grade...
by Noha Alshugairi, Munira Lekovic Ezzeldine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Islamic tradition is rich with values that parents strive to imbue in their children: respect, responsibility, integrity, love, and more. Parenting is all too often filled with sleepless nights, tears, and anxiety followed by endless doubts: “Did I do my best?” “What could I have done differently?”...
Parenting 5
Practical and Independent Little People
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Experience throughout the early years lays the foundation for both neurological and physical well-being. An excellent early environment delivers readiness for life. Never again is there a period that is so influential on the make-up of the human being.
The Parenting 5 books assist parents...
Just a Little Too Thin
How to Pull Your Child Back from the Brink of an Eating Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At a time when 81 percent of ten-year-old girls say they are afraid of being fat, early dieting is clearly a widespread problem. However, the difference between being "just a little too thin" and having a full-blown eating disorder can be hard for even the most involved parent to distinguish....