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This is a guidebook to help children who:have been given too little encouragement to follow their hopes and dreamsare too despondent or defeated to go after their hopes or their dreamsare too busy surviving, so hopes and dreams are a luxury they cannot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061743818Author Elaine HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)...

We all know people who talk with their hands-but do they know what they're saying with them? Our gestures can reveal and contradict us, and express thoughts we may not even know we're thinking.In Thinking with Your Hands, esteemed cognitive psychologist...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452281486Author William SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PlumePublisher PlumeDimensions(mm) 190mm * 160mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783723515273Author Christof WiechertFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Verlag am GoetheanumPublisher Verlag am Goetheanum

This revised and expanded edition adds over 300 new expressions that help unlock the meaning of everyday expressions.Both informative and entertaining, the book addresses an important aspect of social communication for people with Asperger Syndrome, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345315090Author Benjamin BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

One of the most difficult things parents of babies and young children have to deal with are tears. When babies cry, parents shhh, or rock them to try to get them to stop. When toddlers' tantrum parents may distract them, attempt to reason with them, or...

Today's parents often worry that their children will be at a disadvantage if they are not engaged in constant learning, but child development expert David Elkind reassures us that imaginative play goes far to prepare children for academic and social...

Entering the Child's Mind teaches a powerful technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. In the tradition of Piaget and Vygotsky, Dr Herbert P. Ginsburg argues that standardized instruments of evaluation often fail to meet the...

Despite American education's recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning: the desire to learn in the first place. Curiosity is vital, but it remains a surprisingly understudied characteristic. The Hungry Mind is...

The art of exposure lies in perfectly pitched challenges. Get them wrong and nothing changes. Get them right and you set an anxious child free.This practical resource guide contains 75 creative, user-friendly lists of exposure activities appropriate for...

Recognized as a finalist for the CAE 2018 Outstanding Book Award! Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study and part a mother's memoir, Kisisi tells the story of two boys (Colin and Sadiki) who, together invented their own language, and of...

This is a guidebook to help children who:bully or take revenge on others for the pain they have felt themselveshave become very defensive because something too painful has happened to themhave hardened their hearts because they have: been too hurt in...

Over the last four decades, breakthroughs in genetic knowledge, together with the emergence of disciplines devoted to the scientific study of developmental disorders have resulted in much greater awareness of the many different behavioural and genetic...

This definitive volume is the result of collaboration by top scholars in the field of children's cognition. New edition offers an up-to-date overview of all the major areas of importance in the field, and includes new data from cognitive neuroscience...

Trauma suffered during childhood can affect not only a person's emotional and mental health, but also their physical health, even into adulthood. This unique book fills a gap in research in this area, providing personal and theoretical perspectives on...

This is an easy-to-use reference to the most effective play therapy techniques and their substantiated results. Play therapy is not an approach based on guess, trial and error, or whims of the therapist at the moment. It is a well-thought-out,...

Stories are central to our world. We form our families, our communities, and our nations through stories. It is through stories of our everyday experiences that each of us constructs an autobiographical self, a narrative identity, that confers a sense of...

Harry Potter has provided a portal to the wizarding world for millions of readers, but an examination of Harry, his friends and his enemies will take us on yet another journey: through the psyche of the Muggle (and wizard!) mind. The twists and turns of...

Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Childcare/Parenting) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780525954873Author Dana SuskindFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint DuttonPublisher...

How can we help heal children who have been abused or neglected? Healing Child Trauma Through Restorative Parenting details how children can be helped to recover with the use of Restorative Parenting, an innovative model informed by psychological and...

For the first time, The Child Code brings genetics out of the lab and onto the parent's lap, offering a smarter and much more effective way of parenting.Danielle Dick - a chaired professor of psychology and human and molecular genetics - makes the case...

"Am I black or white or am I American?" "Why don't my eyes look like yours?" "Why do people always call attention to my'different' hair?" Helping a child understand his mixed racial background can be daunting, especially when, whether out of honest...

Praise for Peter Goldenthal s previous books: "[Dr. Goldenthal s] techniques...are presented with insight and clarity. This is a unique and valuable book." --William B. Carey, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of...

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. In a lively and entertaining book, an international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060922764Author Frances L. IlgFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Contains many features to aid learning and teaching: Activities and Reflections provide additional ideas for lessons and homework tasks. Case studies and Theory in Practices add the important real-world focus, so you don't have to spend time looking for...

Beatrice Beebe's groundbreaking research on mother-infant communication has influenced practitioners for decades. Here she presents frame-by-frame analysis of illustrations of mother-infant interaction, identifying patterns of attachment exhibited in the...

In this account of their research, the authors describe the anxiety, loneliness and despair of young children in hospital, foster homes and institutions in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a history of a couple in the field of child health, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646040742Author Colleen KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

The extensively re-written and updated edition of this highly acclaimed text provides a synthesis of the latest research on the cognitive defects of dyslexia and reviews evidence concerning its biological bases.About the AuthorMargaret J. Snowling is...

This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health and wellbeing level. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to...

This book provides a straightforward introduction to child development. It also covers the methods and problems of research into children, and the application of new findings in practical life.About the AuthorKathy Sylva is Professor of Child Development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871993202Author Lionel AtheyPage Count 36Imprint Athey EducationalPublisher Athey Educational

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524744205Author Daniel J. LevitinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint DuttonPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 133mm *...

Computers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, first published in 1980, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming...

Written expressly for non-neuropsychologists, this book offers a concise, friendly introduction to the developing brain and its functions. Stephen R. Hooper renders complex concepts accessible as he describes the structure of the brain and the workings...