Child Development category: 2058 books
by Lynnda M. Dahlquist
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Pain is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon, with physiological, behav ioral, emotional, cognitive, and developmental aspects (Zeltzer, Barr, McGrath, & Schechter, 1992). To effectively evaluate and manage pain in children, the clini cian must be able to assess the unique ways these complex...
The CRAF-E4 Family Engagement Model
Building Practitioners’ Competence to Work with Diverse Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
This book lays out how mental health practitioners can best engage parents in their children's education for the child’s best educational outcome. The book presents several different engagement strategies, allowing for differences in socio-political, cultural, and parental beliefs and understandings....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This handbook explores the rapid growth in childhood developmental disabilities (DD) treatments. It reviews current evidence-based treatments for common psychopathologies and developmental disorders and evaluates the strengths of the treatments based on empirical evidence. Spanning infancy through...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
This handbook describes evidence-based methods of assessing psychological, educational, behavioral, and developmental problems in children and adolescents. It provides state-of-the-art analyses of leading assessment tools and methods. Chapters provide an overview of childhood assessment issues,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Self-concept and coping behaviour are important aspects of development in adolescence. Despite their developmental significance, however, the two areas have rarely been considered in relation to each other. This book is the first in which the two areas are brought together; it suggests that this interaction...
Test Anxiety
The State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Examination stress and test anxiety are pervasive problems in modern society. As the information age continues to evolve, test scores will become even more important than they are today in evaluating applicants for demanding jobs and candidates for admission into highly competitive educational programs....
Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months
Book II The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
In a society where two-thirds of divorces occur within six years of having a child, the first few months can be a crucial time for establishing healthy parental roles and routines. In Vortex of Feelings: The Early Months, Book II of the groundbreaking series The Psychological Survival Guide for Parents,...
Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation
Developmental and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Symbol Use and Symbolic Representation: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives is the proceedings of a workshop held at Emory University in 2002 to discuss the difficult and age-old issue of what makes a symbol symbolic. The issue shifts towards exploring the relation between apparent symbolic...
by Stephen F C Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Teaching In The Spirit
If there is going to be a difference in this world, it will not come from rules, demonstrations, educational workshops and public service announcements. While these things may make a brief shift in behaviour, in the end they will not last. The only hope for real change lies...
by Elisa Medhus M.D., M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Raising Children Who Think for Themselves offers a new approach to parenting that has the power to reverse the trend of external direction in our children and help parents bring up empathetic, self-confident, moral, independent thinkers. Children who are externally directed make decisions based on...
The N.D.D. Book
How Nutrition Deficit Disorder Affects Your Child's Learning, Behavior, and Health, and What You Can Do About It--Without Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
The Sears Parenting Library's latest addition is an exploration of how nutrition affects the brains and behavior of youngsters. N.D.D., or Nutrition Deficit Disorder, as coined by Dr. Bill Sears, is based on the idea that if "you put junk food into a child's brain, you get back junk behavior...
Raising Cain
Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
The stunning success of Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher’s landmark book, showed a true and pressing need to address the emotional lives of girls. Now, finally, here is the book that answers our equally timely and critical need to understand our boys.
In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and...
by Lori Lite
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Children love to visualize or imagine filling their bodies with the colors of the rainbow. This effective stress-management technique also known as guided imagery is widely accepted and used by both traditional and holistic communities. These gentle but powerful visualization techniques stimulates...
The Marshmallow Test
Mastering Self-Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it.
A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her...