Child Development category: 2058 books
by Olga Silverstein, Beth Rashbaum
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
The Philosophical Baby
What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and young children. Scientists used to believe that...
Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing Your Robe
The Single Mom's Guide to Dating Well Without Parenting Poorly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Embarking on the dating scene can be a fun though sometimes daunting prospect for any single woman. But for the more than 10 million single women in the U.S. with children at home, dating is a much more complicated matter. Whether uncoupled through divorce or death, single moms face a wide range of...
The Sibling Effect
What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
A senior writer at Time magazine explores what scientists and researchers are discovering about sibling bonds, the longest- lasting relationships we have in our lives.
Nobody affects us as deeply as our brothers and sisters-not parents, not children, not friends. From the time we-and they-are...
Father Hunger
Explorations with Adults and Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
James M. Herzog's Father Hunger: Explorations with Adults and Children will quickly take its place both as a landmark contribution to developmental psychology and as an enduring classic in the clinical literature of psychoanalysis. We live in an era when a great many children grow up without a father,...
Endangered Minds
Why Children Dont Think And What We Can Do About I
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Is today's fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children's brains?
In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America's escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture...
by James G Wellborn PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Got a problem with your teen?In 10 minutes you can have answers.Most parents can’t find the time to get everything done in the day let alone keep up with new trends in effective parenting. Who has time to read a book about what to do when your kid announces he’s getting his nose pierced? Or you...
by Michael Tomasello, Carol Dweck, Joan Silk
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments...
How to Get Kids Offline, Outdoors, and Connecting with Nature
200+ Creative activities to encourage self-esteem, mindfulness, and wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Full of ideas, activities and exercises, this book provides imaginative ways to inspire young people to put down the computer games, disconnect from social media, and spend more time away from a screen. In an increasingly electronic world, creating enthusiasm for the great outdoors can seem an impossible...
To Touch Is To live
The Need for Genuine Affection in an Impersonal World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
For babies to develop normally, they must be touched. Adults, too, thrive when touch is a normal part of their each day: a reassuring handshake, a sympathetic hug, a healing massage. But how often do we permit ourselves or others these simple forms of contact: physical touch, our emotional presence,...
by Gary B. Mesibov, Victoria Shea, Eric Schopler
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
- Professionals can be trained in the program and its methods
- Translates scientific knowledge so that practitioners and parents can easily understand the current state of knowledge
- Offers strategies that can be tailored to an individual's unique developmental and functional level
- Advises parents...
Positive Relationships
Evidence Based Practice across the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Relationships are at the heart of our lives; at home with our families, with our friends, in schools and colleges, with colleagues at the workplace and in our diverse communities. The quality of these relationships determines our individual well-being, how well we learn, develop and function, our...
by Peter Fonagy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
A Bestseller
Attachment Theory shows scientifically how our earliest relationships with our mothers influence our later relationships in life. This book offers an excellent introduction to the findings of attachment theory and the major schools of psychoanalytic thought.
"The book...
Schizophrenia and Youth
Etiology and Therapeutic Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Schizophrenia, described by Karl Jaspers "the enigma of humani ty itself;' has lost little of its enigmatic quality despite intensive research efforts alI over the world. Indeed, the results of in numerable neurobiological, psychological, and psychoanalytic studies have furthered confusion...