Child Development category: 2058 books
Transactions at Play
Volume 9
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers. In this edited volume, nine experts on play show how play transactions are an important dynamic of play across cultures, age groups, even species. A rich array of play...
by Uwe P. Gielen, Sunghun Kim
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
This Element compares the nature of childhood in four representative societies differing in their subsistence activities: bands of Australian hunter-gatherers, Tibetan nomadic pastoralists, peasants and farmers residing in Maya villages and towns, and South Korean students growing up in a digital...
A Question of Technique
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
A Question of Technique focuses on what actually happens in the therapy room and on the technical decisions and pressures that are faced daily.
Coming from the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis, the contributors, a range of experienced practitioners and teachers, describe how...
Forgotten Citizens
Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The United States Constitution insures that all persons born in the US are citizens with equal protection under the law. But in today's America, the US-born children of undocumented immigrants--over four million of them--do not enjoy fully the benefits of citizenship or of feeling that they belong....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
This book explores family-school partnerships and how they can be most effectively leveraged to ensure academic success for students from socioculturally diverse backgrounds. It presents an innovative framework for building collaborative learning partnerships with culturally diverse families, for...
Playing Hard at Life
A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers who have survived the wars of the Middle...
Hidden Youth and the Virtual World
The process of social censure and empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Hidden Youth and the Virtual World examines the phenomenon of ‘hidden youth’ or hikikomori, as it is better known in Japan as well as Hong Kong. Exposure to the Internet has allowed these young persons to develop a high level of capability within the virtual world, however these are skills that...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The second edition of this comprehensive volume presents methods for nonverbal assessment of diverse individuals, such as persons with speech or hearing deficits, limited English skills, or emotional problems. Chapters provide a contemporary context for nonverbal evaluations, accompanied by descriptions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The goal of this Handbook is to describe the current assessment strategies and related best practices to professionals who serve individuals from diverse cultures or those who have difficulty using the English language. It will be a valuable resource for school psychologists, special educators, speech...
Psychology of Early Childhood
Up to the Sixth Year of Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Originally published in 1924, this sixth edition published in 1930 is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the important advances in the field of child psychology at the time. In this new edition the personal standpoint is emphasized, while at the same time other psychological theories...
by Kristin C. Thompson, Richard J. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This book discusses the relationship between juvenile disability and delinquency, including characteristics of youth with disabilities, how disability relates to delinquency, and its impact during a youth’s involvement with the juvenile justice system. The book details the relationship between developmental,...
The Boy Who Loved Windows
Opening The Heart And Mind Of A Child Threatened With Autism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
This enthralling memoir is the day-by-day story of how one little boy was saved from a path leading to autistic isolation. It is also a first-hand account of the new model of research and treatment pioneered by Stanley Greenspan, M.D. that makes this recovery possible for others. Walker, whom pediatricians...
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In una nuova edizione, un manuale di riferimento, di taglio eminentemente pratico, che mostra le varie funzioni cui gli psicologi sono chiamati nel complesso mondo della giustizia. Indirizzato sia agli studenti che devono districarsi nel vasto mondo delle attività psicologiche, sia ai giovani professionisti come supporto e confronto iniziale nel loro lavoro peritale.
Il tempo incantato
Riflessioni psicoanalitiche sulla temporalità in età evolutiva
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Il tempo è una dimensione fondamentale dell’esistenza tanto che filosofi, scienziati, artisti, scrittori da sempre continuano a confrontarsi su questo tema dedicandovi molte energie ed elaborando teorie articolate e complesse. Questo volume si propone come uno strumento di riflessione psicoanalitica...