Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Evidence-based Parenting Education
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary, critical, and global overview of evidence-based parenting education(PEd)programs. Readers are introduced to the best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective PEd programs in order to teach clients how to be effective parents. ...
Assessing Literacy in Deaf Individuals
Neurocognitive Measurement and Predictors
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Humans’ development of literacy has been a recent focus of intense research from the reading, cognitive, and neuroscience fields. But for individuals who are deaf—who rely greatly on their visual skills for language and learning—the findings don’t necessarily apply, leaving theoretical and...
by Michael Lewis, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Synthesizing decades of influential research and theory, Michael Lewis demonstrates the centrality of consciousness for emotional development. At first, infants' competencies constitute innate reactions to particular physical events in the child's world. These "action patterns" are not learned,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
The Handbook of Crisis Intervention and Developmental Disabilities synthesizes a substantive range of evidence-based research on clinical treatments as well as organizational processes and policy. This comprehensive resource examines the concept of behavioral crisis in children and adults with special...
Advances in Child Abuse Prevention Knowledge
The Perspective of New Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children. These new avenues result from the emergence of new research methods made possible through technologic advances, an understanding of the benefits of cross-disciplinary research and...
by Laura Marie Prager, Abigail Louise Donovan M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Suicide by Security Blanket, and Other Stories from the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service: What Happens to Children with Acute Mental Illness takes the reader inside the child psychiatry emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Each chapter highlights both the child's dilemma...
Play = Learning
How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and learning contend that in over-emphasizing academic achievement, our culture has forgotten about the importance of play for children's development.
Preventive Mental Health at School
Evidence-Based Services for Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Some engage in high-risk behaviors. Others need help with emotional skills. Many are affected by mental disorders. While every school has its share of students needing comprehensive mental health services, personnel struggle to address these needs effectively in an era of scarce resources and dwindling...
When Your Gay or Lesbian Child Marries
A Guide for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Massachusetts became the first state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004, and after the landmark decision of Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, same-sex marriage is legal in all fifty states. More than 70,000 same-sex couples have married in the U.S. Although these couples have the right...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Autism was once thought of as a rare condition, until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network released the statistic that about 1 in every 150 eight-year-old children in various areas across the United States is afflicted by an autism...
by Michael A. Rapoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
It used to be called noncompliance, and the patients themselves referred to as difficult. But regardless of the terminology, children’s reluctance or failure to commit to prescribed regimens reduces the effectiveness of treatment, often leading to additional care, higher costs, and serious, even...
Nonverbal Learning Disabilities in Children
Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Although it has yet to be recognized by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), nonverbal learning disabilities (NVLD) in children are a growing concern. NVLD are receiving increased attention from researchers as well as from clinicians encountering these...
Girls at Risk
Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Until recently, boys and men provided the template by which problem behaviors in girls and women were measured. With the shift to studying female development and adjustment through female perspectives comes a need for knowledge of trajectories of at-risk girls’ behavior as they mature. Girls at...
Understanding Adoption
Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists...