Child category: 4509 books
Parenting with Pride Latino Style
How to Help Your Child Cherish Your Cultural Values and Succeed in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
From a distinguished psychologist, mother, and Latina, Parenting with Pride Latino Style offers the first bicultural child-rearing approach for Latino parents. This groundbreaking book supports families in raising their children with time-honored Hispanic values while incorporating the best that North...
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing aggressive behaviors from birth through adolescence. Hostile destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and often create serious problems for society,...
Child Welfare
Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and...
by Derek Kirton
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
`A key text in the exploration of social, political and historical changes around child social care. It offers a broad overview of key themes in all areas and aspects of child care within the UK. It is an essential resource for students studying the degree in social work and will support and encourage...
Child and Family Advocacy
Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Current statistics on child abuse, neglect, poverty, and hunger shock the conscience—doubly so as societal structures set up to assist families are failing them. More than ever, the responsibility of the helping professions extends from aiding individuals and families to securing social justice...
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts
A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt. As experts on adoption and fostering who are adoptive parents themselves, Caroline Archer and Christine...
Silence is Not Golden
Strategies for Helping the Shy Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Chronic shyness can pose a serious threat to a child's academic, emotional, and social development. Children who are extremely shy may miss out on important learning opportunities, have trouble making friends, and avoid activities and events that they might otherwise enjoy. This can be troubling for...
by Scott M. Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
A leading pediatric psychiatrist shows clinicians a holistic, full-spectrum approach to children’s well-being.
Every child possesses enormous untapped potential, and yet the number of kids suffering from mental illness today seems to creep ever upward. Depression, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, oppositional...
by David Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
How do we get from helpless baby to knowing teenager?
What impact do television, computers and iPads, the internet, video games and evolving technology have on the way children's minds develop?
Is cognition a question of learning and environment or of heredity?
How we learn to think, perceive,...
Developmental Group Care of Children and Youth
Concepts and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A recognized leader in the professional development of the child and youth care field presents--in this single volume--a collection of his work related to group care work with children and youth. Henry Maier shares his observations about human development in the group care context, the perceptions...
Play in Child Development and Psychotherapy
Toward Empirically Supported Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2003
Child psychotherapy is in a state of transition. On the one hand, pretend play is a major tool of therapists who work with children. On the other, a mounting chorus of critics claims that play therapy lacks demonstrated treatment efficacy. These complaints are not invalid. Clinical research has only...
The Developing Child in the 21st Century
A global perspective on child development
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Offering a sociocultural approach to education and learning, this fascinating exploration of childhood provides an in-depth understanding of how children make sense of the world and the people in it. Examining the ways in which children express their thoughts, feelings and actively generate meaning...
The Child and the World
How the Child Acquires Language; How Language Mirrors the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The Child and the World! There is nothing more wonderful to watch than a small child, 2 or 3 years old, speaking to its mother, holding a conversation with its mother. It seems miraculous that in such a short period a child can reach so far in its use of this most precious of human possessions, language....
When Your Child Hurts
Effective Strategies to Increase Comfort, Reduce Stress, and Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Parents of a child in pain want nothing more than to offer immediate comfort. But a child with chronic or recurring pain requires much more. His or her parents need skills and strategies not only for increasing comfort but also for helping their child deal with an array of pain-related challenges, such...