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The Nine Degrees of Autism presents a much-needed positive tool for understanding the developmental process of autism, and to facilitate the improved mental health and well-being of individuals on the spectrum. The ground-breaking model charts nine...

The call for trauma-informed education is growing as the profound impact trauma has for the children's ability to learn in traditional classrooms is recognized. For children who have experienced abuse and neglect their behavior is often highly reactive,...

A proven framework for helping children become caring, confident, and resilient In All Feelings Welcome, Kelly Oriard and Callie Christensen, early childhood experts and founders of the Slumberkins brand of characters supporting emotional learning,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883536213Author Phillip ZimbardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint ISHKPublisher ISHK

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631469060Author Foster ClineFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint NavPress Publishing GroupPublisher NavPress Publishing Group

The author, with over twenty years of experience of working with children, writes refreshingly about the practical aspects of his work. He takes traditional and contemporary theories and explains them in the context of how he works with children.About...

Children whose minds as well as bodies have been damaged by the intrusions of sexual abuse, violence or neglect, and others, quite different, who are handicapped by their own mysterious sensitivities to more minor deprivations, may experience a type of...

This ground-breaking text offers a comprehensive and penetrating account of how social developmental perspectives and attachment theory can illuminate practice in the field of child protection and family support. Drawing extensively throughout on...

This workbook, developed after 23 years of work with children, is designed to help children change their 'stinking thinking.' 'Stinking Thinking' are ways children think that cause them to be anxious, depressed, angry, guilty, frustrated, embarrassed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062504364Author Robert A. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Discover how to reconnect with the child in you and unlock the transformative power of play to live a more joyful life.Can you remember the utter delight of playing chase in the park, flying a kite in the summer breeze, or sinking your hands into a box...

Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek...

Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the core of the communal culture. As the culture changes, new kinds of identity questions arise-Erikson...

In this invaluable guide, renowned authorities Marc Marschark and Peter Hauser highlight important new advances in scientific and educational research that can help parents and teachers of students with significant hearing loss. The authors stress that...

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...

When did you last feel so overwhelmed by an experience that your jaw dropped? When were you so struck by something that you had goosebumps? When did you last say 'WOW' out loud and feel like a child again? Children say 'WOW' a lot. But in our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656613770Author Andreas KrumwiedeFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm

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 *...

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 new edition is a thorough revision of the first edition. Drawing on both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology and on both Eastern and Western spiritual sources, the book maps the course of human development from the earliest stages of ego...

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...

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...

Literacy work can provide a therapeutic context in which to support children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools. This text provides a clear theoretical rationale for therapeutic storywriting.Reviews"Trisha Waters provides...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623174491Author Farzana NayaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

A new edition of a classic textThis new edition of Human Development has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate recent developments in the field. New material is introduced on the development of a sense of self, the social self and moral...

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...

The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents, based in groundbreaking research from Jill Ehrenreich-May, David H. Barlow, and colleagues, suggest that there may be a simpler and more efficient...

Why do we grow up to look, act, and feel as we do? Through most of the twentieth century, scientists and laypeople answered this question by referring to two factors alone: our experiences and our genes. But recent discoveries about how genes work have...

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...