Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
The Essential Child
Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005
Essentialism is the idea that certain categories, such as "dog," "man," or "intelligence," have an underlying reality or true nature that gives objects their identity. Where does this idea come from? In this book, Susan Gelman argues that essentialism is an early cognitive bias. Young children's concepts...
Essential Play Therapy Techniques
Time-Tested Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to showcase powerful, well-established approaches applicable to a broad range of childhood problems. Activities,...
Regulatory Disorders in Infants
Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
This innovative book discusses current findings on regulatory disorders in infants and offers practical guidelines for diagnosis and intervention. Focusing on core infant and toddler concerns including crying, sleeping, feeding, clinginess, and aggression, it presents a developmental continuum from...
Inspiring Wonder, Awe, and Empathy
Spiritual Development in Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspiring Wonder, Awe, and Empathy offers a series of thoughtful practices for child care providers to nurture a child’s spiritual development—an extension of social-emotional learning. The book helps educators introduce young children to a system that begins with love and leads to a strong sense...
The Emotional Lives of Animals & Children
Insights from a Farm Sanctuary
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In 2008, Bill Crain, a professor of psychology at The City College of New York, and his wife Ellen, a pediatrician, opened Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary in Poughquag, New York. The sanctuary provides a permanent home to over 70 animals rescued from slaughter and abusive situations, including goats, sheep,...
Language Processing Problems
A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Language Processing Problems: A Guide for Parents and Teachers is an easy-to-read but thorough treatment of a problem which is quite prevalent but often overlooked. Children (and adults) vary in their language processing capacities. Recognizing this variation can be very useful in understanding why...
by Louise Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
A how-to manual for yoga with kids in classrooms and therapeutic settings.
If you are a parent of a child with special needs or a professional who works with one, you know how challenging it can be for them to sit still, to cope with change, to focus on self-soothing strategies, and to interact...
Turning the Hourglass
Children’S Passage Through Traumas and Past Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Turning the Hourglass: Childrens Passage Through Traumas and Past Lives, is a collection of stories written from the childs point of view. It is based on the therapeutic model that Christine has developed which includes Gestalt Therapy with Children and Adolescents and Regression Therapy. Emerging...
Safe and Sound
Protecting Your Child in an Unpredictable World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Drawing on research in child development and extensive interviews with families, journalist Vanessa Ochs helps parents make sensible, age-appropriate decisions about when to protect and when to let go and provides strategies for taming their irrational fears and transforming them into manageable ones....
by Colby Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
A child's capacity to cope with adversity and 'stand on their own two feet' is seen as critical to their development, well-being, and future independence and success in adulthood. Psychological strength, or resilience, directly affects a child's capacity to cope with adversity.
This book provides...
Parenting Made Easy – the Middle Years
A Bag of Tricks Approach to Parenting the 6-12 Year Old
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
No longer a toddler not yet a teen-ager, the middle years can be a challenging time for parents. Yet it is a vital time to establish the kinds of family values that you want before the turbulent teen years begin.
If you have ever felt challenged by your childs behaviour, have felt that you...
by T. Berry Brazelton, Joshua Sparrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
For decades, new parents have relied on Dr. Brazelton's wisdom. But all "Brazelton babies" grow up. Now at last, the internationally famous pediatrician, in collaboration with an eminent child psychiatrist, has brought his unique insights to the "magic" preschool and first-grade...
Just a Little Too Thin
How to Pull Your Child Back from the Brink of an Eating Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At a time when 81 percent of ten-year-old girls say they are afraid of being fat, early dieting is clearly a widespread problem. However, the difference between being "just a little too thin" and having a full-blown eating disorder can be hard for even the most involved parent to distinguish....
Contemporary Parenting
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Through a global, multidisciplinary perspective, this book describes how four factors influence parenting practices: a countries historical and political background, the parent’s educational history, the economy and the parent’s financial standing, and advances in technology. Case studies that...