Child category: 4509 books
Parent-Focused Child Therapy
Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Function
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems. Parent-Focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions is an edited collection, drawing from leading...
by Matthew Hodes, Susan Shur-Fen Gau, Petrus De Vries
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Understanding Uniqueness and Diversity in Child and Adolescent Mental Health examines the determinates of individual differences in children and young people, along with the origins of maladjustment and psychiatric disorders. It addresses the ways in which interventions and mental health services...
The Impossible Imperative
Navigating the Competing Principles of Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families. Stories that highlight the work, written by child welfare staff on the front lines, speak to the competing principles that shape everyday decisions. The...
Mental Health in Children and Young People
Spotting Symptoms and Seeking Help Early
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
"I'm worried that my child is depressed and anxious."
"I'm worried that my child has an eating disorder."
"I'm worried about drugs."
Mental health difficulties affect about 1 in 10 children and young people, ranging from fears, phobias and panic attacks to obsessions,...
The Global Context for New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 147
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Take an in depth look at the field of child and adolescent development. In this issue, the new leadership of this series offers different aspects of relevant work throughout multiple disciplines and continents, capturing both the variability and the richness of the themes considered and topics investigated...
by Marilyn Wedge
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioral problems without stigmatizing diagnoses.
With more than four million American children diagnosed with ADHD and other psychiatric disorders, taking a child to a psychiatrist is as...
by Edward Farber
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
You and your former wife/husband are struggling to be civil to each other and you recognize the conflicts could be damaging to your child. Dr. Farber, a clinical child psychologist who’s been in practice for 30+ years, knows what you’re up against. He writes compassionately and insightfully about...
Raising a Secure Child
How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child's Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Today's parents are constantly pressured to be perfect. But in striving to do everything right, we risk missing what children really need for lifelong emotional security. Now the simple, powerful "Circle of Security" parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book presents an integrated and coordinated framework for assessing developmental, psychological, and behavioral disorders in early childhood. Expert contributors advocate for natural-environment methods in addition to standardized measures in assessing academic and social skills as well as age-specific...
by Juan Santos
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This practical and compassionate book provides step-by-step recommendations for parents on how to effectively communicate with your child. The author provides case studies that speak directly to Hispanic families dealing with parent-child issues. Parents are provided with suggestions and fresh insights...
Home Visitation Programs
Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
This timely resource analyzes home visits as a primary intervention for at-risk families with infants and young children and details innovative programs for home service delivery. Focusing on family violence, mental illness and alcohol and substance abuse as major challenges to child development,...
Vulnerable Children
Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
They are laborers, soldiers, refugees, and orphans. In areas of the world torn by poverty, disease, and war, millions of children are invisible victims, deprived of home, family, and basic human rights. Their chances for a stable adult life are extremely slim.
The powerful interdisciplinary...
Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right
Selected Case Law on State Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual...
The Orchid and the Dandelion
Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
**"Based on groundbreaking research that has the power to change the lives of countless children--and the adults who love them."
--Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts.
A book that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, and child...