Developmental

Young children have a limited understanding of the risks surrounding them: they fall over, bang their heads, scrape their knees and worse. Parents and practitioners can try to create a risk-free environment, but this can reduce children's chances to to...

How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a...

At its heart, polyvagal theory describes how the brain's unconscious sense of safety or danger impacts our emotions and behaviours. In this powerful book, pediatrician and neonatologist Marilyn R. Sanders and child psychiatrist George S. Thompson offer...

Finally, a parenting book which demystifies the latest thinking on neurobiology, physiology and trauma and explains what the research means for the everyday life of parents of children who hurt.As experts on adoption and fostering who are adoptive...

This book offers a thorough examination and discussion of the evidence on attachment, its influence on development, and attachment disorders. In Part One, the authors outline attachment theory, the influence of sensitive and insensitive caregiving and...

Don't worry, be happy!A vibrant and fun story book, Don't Worry, Murray! helps guide young minds towards a calmer and more positive outlookIt's Murray the dog's first day at his new school and he can't wait to start his next BIG adventure. That's until...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871137340Author Robin Karr-MorseFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

An inclusive guide to developing confidence and competence in daily practice Attending to the psychological needs of children in distress is an enormously challenging and rewarding endeavour. Successful clinical child psychologists are both practitioners...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262522250Author Simon Baron-CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607743026Author Rahima Baldwin DancyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm)...

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies...

Why do teenagers stay up late and struggle to get up in the morning? Do teenagers really take more risks? What is happening with teenagers' hormones?The Psychology of the Teenage Brain offers all those involved in teenagers' lives insight into what's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101905340Author Jane NelsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This valuable resource for people working with adults with learning disabilities provides over 60 sessions of fun and engaging activities that aim to entertain and stimulate the minds of people with learning disabilities.The sessions are divided into...

Self-harm is a growing problem in children and young people but it can be hard to understand and difficult to recognise.Responding to Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents will help professionals to understand self-harm and respond appropriately. It...

How much independence should parents allow teenagers who claim rights and privileges, show excessive confidence and test the boundaries of discipline? How can parents handle the physical and emotional changes in their adolescent child?This book offers...

Organized around extended case illustrations-and grounded in cutting-edge theory and research-this highly regarded book shows how an attachment perspective can inform psychotherapeutic practice with patients of all ages. Karl Heinz Brisch explores the...

This important book considers what we know about test and exam anxiety, including how it is defined, its characteristics, how it can be identified, why and how it develops, and what can be done to support test-anxious students.Addressing the pressures of...

This book is the first to synthesise this exciting new area for undergraduates. Taking a topic-based approach, it emphasises the social contexts of development and the developmental aspects of social reasoning and social behaviour.About the AuthorKevin...

Put together by an outstanding author team, including many authors from the University of Northampton, An Introduction to Early Childhood is a much loved book that helps you explore all the major themes in early years education and care, while providing...

"Winnicott was a healer with the qualities of a parent, a magician, a teacher, a poet and a friend. The editors of this book have done a great service in collecting and arranging papers dating from the experiences of the evacuation in the Second World...

In a culture infatuated with youth and determined to avoid old age at all costs, this book dares to raise a question that has been all but forgotten in the age of Viagra and cosmetic surgery. What benefits might lie in accepting the aging process as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546034131Author Tom WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Worthy BooksPublisher Worthy BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 140mm * 221mm * 20mm

Lowenfeld realised that 'Play' was the medium through which children worked out their emotional conflicts. She recognised that it was a cognitive process which could be analysed (in a non-Freudian way) to understand and deal with behaviour problems and...

Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of child abuse; on violence towards children and its cost to society. For more than twenty years she taught and practised psychoanalysis; now she questions the...

For decades, new parents have relied on Dr. Brazelton's wisdom. But all "Brazelton babies" grow up. Now at last, the internationally famous pediatrician, in collaboration with an eminent child psychiatrist, has brought his unique insights to the "magic"...

Written for parents of children from toddlers to teens, this book gives parents a science-based plan to help their children grow up to be emotionally healthy adults. To build healthy and lasting parent-child relationships, parents need practical...

This highly practical book presents current developments in play therapy, including innovative applications for particular problems and populations. Contributors first discuss the latest ideas and techniques emerging from object relations, experiential,...

Breastfeeding is a globally recognized imperative for the preservation of infant health, and governments around the world have introduced breastfeeding promotion measures. While initiation rates have improved, duration rates at a few weeks or months...

Help children and teens with social-emotional and cognitive challenges develop critical new skills with this quick-guide to the popular DIRFloortime (R) model. Certified DIRFloortime (R) experts show parents and professionals how to promote skill...

'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.' - Pandora SykesA conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and...

Research suggests that only 10-30% of our lifespan is determined by our genetics. This means that the vast majority of how we age is directly related to choices we make everyday - how and what we eat, exercise and sleep quality, to name a few. So, while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907282942Author Laura WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Mpowr LtdPublisher Mpowr LtdWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 9mm

D.W. Winnicott's remarkable books, including The Piggle, Home Is Where We Start From and The Child, Family and the Outside World (all published by Penguin) are still read, valued and argued with over thirty years after his death. Adam Phillips's short...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307345578Author Jane NelsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 232mm *...

This bestselling textbook provides social science students with an accessible introduction to neuroscience and the implications for our understandings of child development, considering the links between brain development and social and cultural issues. ...

No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country...

This book makes explicit connections between young children's spontaneous repeated actions, and their representations of their emotional worlds. Drawing on the literature on schemas, attachment theory and family contexts, the author takes schema theory...

Asha Phillips writes as both a child psychotherapist and a mother, using case studies as well as informal anecdotes from family and friends as illustrations. She strips away the negative associations surrounding the word 'no' and celebrates change and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062225931Author David FlinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 249g