Child category: 4509 books
Organized Activities As Contexts of Development
Extracurricular Activities, After School and Community Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
School-aged children in the U.S. and other Western nations spend almost half of their waking hours in leisure activities. For some, out-of-school time is perceived as inconsequential or even counterproductive to the health and well-being of young persons. Recently, however, there has been a growing...
by Clark Moustakas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1997
Renowned child therapist Clark Moustakas demonstrates how play can be used to affirm and liberate children_children who suddenly become troubled in their school or family lives and can work out their anger and fear in just a few sessions, as well as children who are seriously disturbed and must struggle to achieve emotional maturity, respect for others, and faith in themselves.
Thriving on the Front Lines
A Guide to Strengths-Based Youth Care Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Youth and Family Services (YFS) are part of residential and group homes, schools, social service organizations, hospitals, and family court systems. YFS include prevention, education, positive youth development, foster care, child welfare, and treatment. As YFS has evolved advances in research have...
The Psychobiology of Childhood
A Profile of Current Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume was inspired by an annual meeting of the American Col lege of N europsychopharmacology held in Maui, Hawaii. A panel on psychobiological issues of childhood was held, with presentations devoted to antidepressant drug levels in depressed prepubertal children, re sponses of normal and...
by John Bowlby
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
This first volume of John Bowlby's Attachment and Loss series examines the nature of the child's ties to the mother. Beginning with a discussion of instinctive behavior, its causation, functioning, and ontogeny, Bowlby proceeds to a theoretical formulation of attachment behavior-how it develops, how...
Play and Playfulness
Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
While the psychodynamic understanding of play and play's therapeutic potential was long restricted to the realm of children, Winnicott's work demonstrated the profound significance of the capacity to play for healthy mental functioning during adult life. Scattered writings of Erikson, Glenn, and Shopper...
Basic Concepts in Family Therapy
An Introductory Text, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Gain confidence and creativity in your family therapy interventions with new, up-to-date research!
Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Introductory Text, Second Edition, presents twenty-two basic psychological concepts that therapists may use to understand clients and provide successful services...
Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume Two
The Contemporary Adolescent:A Clinical Workbook for counsellors, psychotherapists and arts therapists
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In common with Therapeutic Practice in Schools: Working with the Child Within (Routledge 2012), this second volume serves as a practical handbook for school-based counsellors, psychotherapists, arts therapists and play therapists working with young people. Written in accessible language, it is eminently...
Large-Scale Brain Systems and Neuropsychological Testing
An Effort to Move Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This leading-edge volume offers a new framework for neuropsychological testing rooted in the current evidence base on large-scale brain system interactions. Expert coverage brings traditional discrete areas of cognitive functioning (e.g., attention, memory) in line with highly nuanced relationships...
The Good News Chair
A simple tool for shaping a child's positive behavior and self-image
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
A Simple Tool for Shaping a Child’s Positive Behavior and Self Image is the story of how a special chair changed the culture of an elementary school principal’s office and at the same time encouraged and recognized desirable behavior. Stories (hilarious, sad, candid, surprising…) about the children...
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness
Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's insights, Robert W. Rentoul draws on and integrates the subsequent work of the British Independents and...
Jean Piaget
Children and the Inclusion Problem (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Jean Piaget, renowned Swiss developmental psychologist and epistemologist, is best known for his groundbreaking studies with children, which led him to develop a landmark theory of cognitive development. Geldolph A. Kohnstamm's Jean Piaget: Children and the Inclusion Problem is a critical study of...
by Paula Elbirt
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Children's eating habits change often between infancy and preschool. Dr. Paula's Good Nutrition Guide for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers provides nutrition guidelines for young children and gives parents confidence in this confusing and important area.Pediatrician Paula Elbirt discusses nutrition...
School Consultation
Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Since its emergence during the 1960s, school consultation has become an important vehicle for delivering psychological and educational services. Cooperative efforts between skilled consultants and teachers, rooted in the principles of problem solving, social influence, and professional development,...