Adolescent

Use a strengths perspective for working with your younger clients! Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model presents new insights into successfully working with children by concentrating on their capabilities and...

This book provides practical guidance for a wide range of professionals working with parents and families, answering common questions such as 'How can parents facilitate their child's transition to secondary school?' and 'How can families best...

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent "war on terror," growing up Muslim in the U.S. has become a far more challenging task for young people. They must contend with popular cultural representations of...

Adolescence can be a difficult time for all concerned. Issues such as high youth unemployment, sexual behaviour and drug abuse have made it a matter of great concern for the community at large, whether as parents, politicians or those working with...

Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who...

First published in 1986. This study seeks to answer some of the psychosocial questions around adolescent fathers that has heightened interest by the increasing concern that has surfaced around the financial burdens imposed on society in the need to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880105989Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476755571Author David WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 141mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593420966Author Devorah HeitnerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

Solution Focused Coaching for Adolescents explains the principles and attitude of the popular 11-step, Mission Possible, Solution Focused Coaching program for working with adolescents. By comparing the Mission Possible principles with the 'normal' way of...

Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award"This engaging and well-written book is a significant advance in our understanding of when and how mentoring matters...[It] lays the foundations for an approach to mentoring that is both rigorous and rich in new...

This authoritative manual presents an accessible 18-step program widely used by clinicians working with challenging teens. Steps 1-9 comprise parent training strategies for managing a broad range of problem behaviors, including those linked to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385425766Author Peggy OrensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

While the period of transition from adolescence to adulthood has become a recent focus for developmental psychologists and child mental health practitioners, the full role of the family during this period is only beginning to be explored. Many compelling...

Can moderated screen time actually have a positive impact on young people's mental health? With over 30 expert contributors spanning a range of disciplines including psychology, education and communications, as well as young people's own perspectives,...

Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth highlights the paradigm shift to treating children and adolescents as "at-promise" rather than "at-risk." By utilizing a strength-based model that moves in opposition to pathology, this volume presents a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943880126Author Jessie ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Bluefox PressPublisher Bluefox PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399168833Author Daniel J SiegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593764203Author Peter Brown HoffmeisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028158Author Rachel SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 15mm

Children today are digital natives, growing up in an age where social media and online communication is the norm. This book is an indispensable guide for parents who may feel they are struggling to keep up, addressing the issues that young people and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995590Author Robert EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 535Imprint Word Dancer PressPublisher Word Dancer PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 44mm

Adolescent Development: The Essential Readings provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by key researchers in this fast growing area of developmental psychology.About the AuthorThe editor is Professor of Family Relations and Human...

Based on a large-scale survey and in light of demographic and cultural factors, the author examines why children are sexually victimized, the sources of trauma, differences between reported and unreported cases of assault, and possible increases in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046961Author Katie DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943880119Author Jessie ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Bluefox PressPublisher Bluefox PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541742741Author Sarah-Jayne BlakemoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Journeys of Embodiment at the Intersection of Body and Culture: The Developmental Theory of Embodiment describes an innovative developmental and feminist theory-understanding embodiment-to provide a new perspective on the interactions between the social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196041311Author Vasavvi AcharjyaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the key theoretical perspectives and methodologies in developmental psychology. It integrates insights from typical and atypical development to reveal fundamental aspects of human growth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956950182Author Michelle BissantiFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Mustang Bon FoundationPublisher Mustang Bon FoundationWeight(grams)...

Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood is an innovative and exciting European adaptation of Jeffrey Arnett's hugely successful and groundbreaking US text of the same title. The book combines the most significant approaches and ideas in developmental, social...

Parenting expert Carl E. Pickhardt brings his considerable experience to tackling the most pervasive and difficult problems parents face in childrearing. Whereas many books on family conflict focus on the prickly teenage years, Pickhardt takes the long...

Frequently cited in scholarly books and journals and praised by students, this book focuses on developmental changes and processes in adolescence rather than on the details and problems of daily life. Major developmental changes associated with...

Children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems who are referred to mental health services for assessment often have undiagnosed mild learning disabilities, and this guide is written for clinicians involved in making such assessments.It...

A flurry of best-selling works has recently urged us to rescue and protect boys. They have described how boys are failing at school, acting out, or shutting down emotionally. Lost in much of the ensuing public conversation are the boys themselves-the...

The introduction of the psychological construct of self-efficacy is widely acknowledged as one of the most important developments in the history of psychology. Today, it is simply not possible to explain phenomena such as human motivation, learning,...

Human development doesn't occur in a vacuum. Rather, it is deeply rooted in, and affected by, culture. This textbook examines how culture affects several domains of development, including cognition, emotion, sociolinguistics, peer relationships, family...

Very few families are perfect. But looking from the outside in, through conversations in the grocery store or clicking through social media, oftentimes it seems we are the only ones struggling with raising our kids or aligning with our spouses on...