Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Child Sexual Abuse
Its Scope and Our Failure
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Child sexual abuse has become a prevalent topic of study and discussion in the fields of Child Psychology, Pediatrics, Law Enforcement, and Social Work. But even with the widespread knowledge of identifiable behavior in its victims and abusers, society's response to child sexual abuse is failing profoundly.
Rebecca...
Gentling
A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery
Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition with 3 new chapters on adolescents
Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress...
Social and Emotional Education in Primary School
Integrating Theory and Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
This book synthesizes concepts, findings, and best practices for a complete guide to planning, implementing, and evaluating social and emotional education (SEE) programs. Emphasizing "caught" as well as taught lessons, it offers a whole-school framework for SEE, with content, rationales,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Originally published in 1987, the contributors bring their different orientations to the study of child development and genetic epistemology to show the continuing value of Piaget's theory and its fruitfulness in providing insights which permit the advancement of science. This volume contains the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This interdisciplinary volume explores art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge. Presenting theory and research on artistic development as a cultural and creative endeavor, contributors examine the origins of human art during the Paleolithic cultural revolution, as part...
by David J. Shernoff
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement analyzes the psychological, social, and academic phenomena comprising engagement, framing it as critical to learning and development. Drawing on positive psychology, flow studies, and theories of motivation, the book conceptualizes engagement...
by Julie Sarama, Douglas Clements, Carrie Germeroth
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
The Development of Early Childhood Mathematics Education, Volume 53 in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology. Users will find updated chapters on a variety of topics, including...
Educational Psychology Practice
A New Theoretical Framework
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
This book sets out a proposal for applying psychological and educational psychology concepts to improve work with children and young people. It also suggests how some of the criticism aimed at pedagogical-psychology practice can be answered.
In several respects educational psychology practice...
School-Parent Collaborations in Indigenous Communities
Providing Services for Children with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Poverty. Lack of social support. Limited access to education. High risk for health problems. Indigenous communities face an inordinate number of hardships. But when children have special needs, these problems multiply exponentially, making existing difficulties considerably worse.
School-Parent...
Child Abuse and Neglect
Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
Child Abuse and Neglect: Forensic Issues in Evidence, Impact and Management provides an overview of all aspects of child abuse and neglect, approaching the topic. from several viewpoints. First, child abuse is considered from both victimization and offending perspectives, and although empirical scholarship...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
First published in 1986, this authoritative book contains a selection of original, research based, reports of studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand in the field of Child Development. The topics have been arranged into four major sections – cognitive issues in development, language and reading...
The Psychology of Early Childhood
A Study of Mental Development in the First Years of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Originally published in 1942, this title attempted to trace, from their very earliest appearances after birth, all aspects of mental development in childhood up to the age of about 4 or 5. It is based largely on the author’s almost daily observations of his own five children, over a period of some...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This handbook offers a theoretical foundation for the adaptation of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families. The volume examines current treatments for children with ASD and provides a rationale for why PCIT is considered a strong...
The Development of Children’s Thinking
Its Social and Communicative Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
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The Development of Children’s Thinking* offers undergraduate and graduate students in psychology and other disciplines an introduction...