Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Bringing together leading researchers, this is the first volume to comprehensively examine popularity among children and adolescents: what it is, how it is attained, and its impact on peer interaction and individual development. The book clarifies how popularity is distinct from being socially accepted...
by Charles Wibbelsman, Kathy McCoy, Ph.D
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Everything teenagers need to know about nutrition, health, fitness, emotions, and sexuality.
Some teen issues are timeless: self-consciousness and uncertainty over rapidly changing bodies, tumultuous feelings, and dramatically changing lives. Many parents remember vividly their own youthful...
Debating Emerging Adulthood
Stage or Process?
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
The transition from adolescence to adulthood has undergone significant changes in recent decades. Unlike a half century ago, when young people in industrialized countries moved from adolescence into young adulthood in relatively short order at around age 20, now the decade from the late teens to the...
Hearing Voices
Qualitative Inquiry in Early Psychosis
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Qualitative methods are increasingly useful as psychiatry shifts from a focus on symptom reduction to enabling people to live satisfying and meaningful lives. It becomes important to achieve a deeper understanding of the ways in which mental illness interferes with everyday life and the ways in which...
Infant Research and Adult Treatment
Co-constructing Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Infant Research and Adult Treatment is the first synoptic rendering of Beatrice Beebe’s and Frank Lachmann’s impressive body of work. Therapists unfamiliar with current research findings will find here a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of infant competencies. These competencies give...
by Prof. Akhilesh Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.
The Story of Sexual Identity
Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
This book assembles a diverse group of scholars working within a new, pathbreaking paradigm of sexual science, fusing perspectives from history, sociology, and psychology. The contributors are united in their commitment to the idea of "narrative" as central to the study of sexual identity, offering...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The Clinician’s Guide to Treatment and Management of Youth with Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorders provides clinicians with cognitive behavioral therapy concepts and skills to manage young patients dealing with Tourette Syndrome (TS) and tic disorders. This book focuses on improving the quality...
Substance Abuse and Dependence in Adolescence
Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Recent years have seen a growth in the numbers of studies of substance abuse and dependence in adolescence, focusing on prevalence, risk factors, comorbidity, course and outcome. At the same time, numerous prevention and intervention strategies have been developed. Substance Abuse and Dependence in...
'Adolescence', Pregnancy and Abortion
Constructing a Threat of Degeneration
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012!
Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!
Why, despite evidence to the contrary, does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Get valuable insights into best practices and procedures for treatment
Mental health practitioners across the country are increasingly treating students by combining the use of psychotropic medication with psychotherapy. Pharmacological Treatment of College Students with Psychological Problems...
Continuidad y cambio en la familia
Factores intervinientes
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Las relaciones familiares y de pareja se dan en un continuo en el que intervienen diversas variables, algunas de ellas son el aumento en la edad para casarse, las relaciones premaritales y consensuadas, el decremento del tamaño de la familia en cuanto el número de integrantes, la disminución paulatina...
The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood
Changes in Social Activities, Roles, and Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book is intended as a thoughtful extension to Bachman et al.'s well-received monograph Smoking, Drinking, and Drug Use in Young Adulthood. That volume showed that the new freedoms of young adulthood lead to increases in substance use, while the responsibilities of adulthood--marriage, pregnancy,...
Princess Cultures
Mediating Girls Imaginations and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Princesses today are significant figures in girls’ culture in the United States and around the world. Although the reign of girls’ princess culture has generated intense debate, this anthology is the first to bring together international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the multitude of princess...