Child Psychology category: 2885 books
The Bonsai Child
Why modern parenting limits children's potential and practical strategies to turn it around
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Modern parenting is in crisis. Parents put more time and effort into raising their children than ever before, but children’s self-esteem, resilience and wellbeing don’t appear to be improving.
In her work as a clinical psychologist and researcher, Dr Judith Locke sees a disturbing link...
Child Psychotherapy
Integrating Developmental Theory into Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
All too often children are diagnosed and medicated without the consideration that their symptoms may actually be a healthy response to stressful life events. This integrative guide for mental health practitioners who work with children underscores the importance of considering the etiology of a child's...
Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past, 2nd Edition
Making Sense of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Approximately one of every four adopted children will have adjustment challenges related to their separation from the birth family, earlier trauma, attachment difficulties, and/or issues stemming from the adoption process. Common complicating issues of adopted children are feelings of rejection, abandonment,...
The Children's Bill of Emotional Rights
A Guide to the Needs of Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
There are approximately 7 billion people in the world, and 2 billion of them are children. Children are the last unheard minority, a group whose voice is seldom listened to, and whose rights are seldom acknowledged. Children are dependent on adults for their survival and wellbeing, and as such are...
Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse
Identification, Assessment, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
A comprehensive guide to the identification, assessment, and treatment of child sexual abuse
The field of child sexual abuse has experienced an explosion of research, literature, and enhanced treatment methods over the last thirty years. Representing the latest refinements of thought in this...
Free Your Child from Overeating
A Handbook for Helping Kids and Teens
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Is your child or teen overeating or overweight?
Are you unsure how to help? You’re not alone.
If your ten- to eighteen-year-old is struggling with overeating, you know how hard that can be—for your child and for you. Unhealthy eating habits put kids and teens’ well-being and self-confidence...
Treating the Traumatized Child
A Step-by-Step Family Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
"This book builds upon my early work and the work and others by offering a comprehensive guide to practitioners interested in facing and helping to heal trauma and manage the drama systemically with a special focus on children and adolescents. The FST Model is a contribution to the fields of trauma,...
The Highly Sensitive Child
Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
The bestselling author and psychologist whose books have topped 240,000 copies in print now addresses the trait of “high sensitivity” in children–and offers a breakthrough parenting guidebook for highly sensitive children and their caregivers.
With the publication of The Highly Sensitive...
Child Psychotherapy and Research
New Approaches, Emerging Findings
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Child Psychotherapy and Research brings together some of the most exciting and innovative research activity taking place within psychoanalytic child psychotherapy today.
Drawing on the expertise of an international range of contributors, this book describes work at the cutting edge of research...
The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse
Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle has one simple purpose_to describe the profound interferences with normal developmental processes that occur in every subsequent developmental phase throughout life as the result of chronic child sexual abuse. Through the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
One of the most widely used assessments of infants and toddlers, the BAYLEY-III measures the major areas of development including cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive functioning. This book provides an introduction into use of the BAYLEY-III in each of these five areas. For each...
Play and Art in Child Psychotherapy
An Expressive Arts Therapy Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2014
Ellen G. Levine draws on her extensive experience in clinical settings to present a series of case studies that demonstrate how art-making and imaginary play can provide a space for children to metabolize their experiences. Each study is followed by an arts-based research discussion of the themes...
by Linda Wilmshurst
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
A concise guide to the fundamentals of child psychopathology, complete with the latest developments
Essentials of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Second Edition provides a concise, accessible overview of the major theories, assessment practices, and key issues. This updated Second Edition...
Beyond Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
Fostering the Eight Sources of Change in Child and Adolescent Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2008
Beyond Evidence-Based Psychotherapy teaches students through a common factors point-of-view, combining research, case studies, multiple treatment orientations, and a perspective that describes the personal growth of a clinician’s career. It differs from previous texts in that it presents the recent...