Child Psychology category: 2885 books
When Children Grieve
For Adults to Help Children Deal with Death, Divorce, Pet Loss, Moving, and Other Losses
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss.
In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children...
Handbook of Cognitive-Behavior Group Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Specific Settings and Presenting Problems
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This Handbook offers a much-needed resource of theoretical knowledge, evidence-based interventions, and practical guidelines for professionals providing group psychotherapy to youth clients.
Written by leading professionals in the field of child and adolescent cognitive-behavioral therapy,...
What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage
It May Be Your Marriage, but It's Your Child's Blueprint for Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
How are your children learning about intimacy? What are they seeing when they watch you interacting with your spouse? In a ground breaking approach to family dynamics, What Children Learn from Their Parents' Marriage shows how a child's perception of the marriage his or her parents have created...
Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up
Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Do you find yourself constantly asking your child to "pick up the pace"? Does he or she seem to take longer than others to get stuff done--whether completing homework, responding when spoken to, or getting dressed and ready in the morning? Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby have worked...
by Jess P. Shatkin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Everything clinicians need to know about the emotional well-being of kids.
With the number and type of mental health issues in kids on the rise, and as more and more clinicians and counselors are being pushed to the front lines of defense, now more than ever there is a need for a comprehensive,...
Becoming Who We Are
Temperament and Personality in Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and adjustment across the lifespan? What are its biological underpinnings? From preeminent researcher Mary Rothbart, this work comprehensively...
Child and Adolescent Therapy, Fourth Edition
Cognitive-Behavioral Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Widely regarded as the definitive clinical reference and text in the field, this authoritative volume presents effective cognitive-behavioral approaches for treating frequently encountered child and adolescent disorders. The editor and contributors are leading experts who provide hands-on, how-to-do-it...
School Psychology for the 21st Century, Second Edition
Foundations and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
A leading introductory text, this authoritative volume comprehensively describes the school psychologist's role in promoting positive academic, behavioral, and emotional outcomes for all students. The book emphasizes a problem-solving-based, data-driven approach to practice in today's diverse schools....
by Mary Baginsky, Felicity Fletcher-Campbell, William Baginsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines.
The contributors, who are all experts in the field of child protection, put the potentially daunting...
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents
A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides an innovative perspective on developmental disorders in youth, one focused on embracing and working with the "messiness" and many variables at play in child and adolescent development. The volume’s approach is aligned with...
by Maricela Correa-Chávez, Rebeca Mejía-Arauz, Barbara Rogoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond...
by Jane Barlow, Anita Schrader
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more likely to experience a range of problems as adults including depression, substance misuse and eating disorders....
The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents
A Practitioner's Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This book highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that appeal to practicing clinicians. Rather than a comprehensive handbook of various tests and measures, The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents is a practitioner-friendly text that provides guidance for test selection,...
by John F. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
John Hunt is a kind and gregarious man. His eyes twinkle and his face beams. He is a retired businessman and still retains that drive. I met John the summer of 2000. He came for the graduation ceremony of the crew of students that Jason had led, and we talked. Jason had a difficult course which is...