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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...

Every parent wants to raise a bright, happy, and moral child, but until Stanley Greenspan investigated the building blocks of cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, no one could show parents how and when these qualities begin. In this book...

Every parent wants to raise a bright, happy, and moral child, but until Stanley Greenspan investigated the building blocks of cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, no one could show parents how and when these qualities begin. In this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544002234Author Alison BechdelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

Professor Piaget discusses a set of investigations he and a team of co-workers carried out on the genesis of the notion of number in the child's mind. By asking questions freely, they were able to gather valuable statements from children about the...

Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants come into the world seemingly unable to do much but eat,...

This collection of original articles by leading specialists in child development brings together work from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to establish, for the first time, the importance of the preschool period (eighteen months to four years)for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593185605Author Dana SuskindFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922979261Author Kim CornishFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

This important new book presents a comprehensive integration of psychoanalytic theories of human development from Freud to the present, showing their implications for the evaluation and treatment of children and adults. Phyllis Tyson and Robert L. Tyson...

For many children and teens daily Internet use is the norm - but where should we draw the line when it comes to digital media usage? This handy book lays out the essential information needed to understand and prevent excessive Internet use that...

Over a period of six decades, Jean Piaget conducted a program of naturalistic research that has profoundly affected our understanding of child development.About the AuthorJean Piaget, M. E. Cartalis, S. Escher, A. Hanhart, L. Hahnloser, O. Matthes, S...

A selection of insights into the relationship between men and women Have you wondered: Why women are more sympathetic than men toward O. J. Simpson? Why women were no more supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment than men? Why women are no more likely...

Measurement-based assessment has dominated our educational systems at the expense of the learning and the well-being of students and teachers. In this book, Gergen and Gill propose a radical alternative to this broken system, which is based instead on an...

Quality of attachment has been a central variable in developmental research during recent decades. However, even though attachment is relevant to all cultures and humans of all ages, the majority of research has focused on middle class infants in...

Breathe in, breathe out...A fun and thoughtful story book, What's the Hurry, Murray? helps children to slow down and take things one step at a timeMurray the dog can't wait for his friend Florrie, the hedgehog, to come round to play. That's until he...

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...

A perennial bestseller from a leading authority, this book provides an effective 10-step program for training parents in child behavior management skills (ages 2 to 12). Professionals get proven tools to help parents understand the causes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805154Author Pilar JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This book explores how the work of key child development theorists informs music therapy practice with children and families. Focusing primarily on the theoretical thinking and understanding of the paediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott,...

Most parents today have accepted the message that the first three years of a baby's life determine whether or not the child will grow into a successful, thinking person. But is this powerful warning true? Do all the doors shut if baby's brain doesn't get...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743202237Author Mel Md LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

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 9780609807514Author Tim MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439196564Author Justin L. BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and...

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

Bonds between brothers and sisters are among the longest lasting and most emotionally significant of human relationships. But while 45 percent of adults struggle with serious sibling strife, few discuss it openly. Even fewer resolve it to their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781337219Author Mark EscottFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 223gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812932409Author Scott CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Times BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 139mm...

Boys need to be noticed, admired, understood, and accepted to feel good about themselves. Boys who lack appropriate emotional support from the adults close to them are at risk of believing they don't fit in and are likely to act accordingly, engaging in...

The field of educational neuroscience uses new insights about the neural mechanisms of learning to improve educational practices and outcomes. The first volume to bring together the latest knowledge on the development of educational neuroscience from a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976065869Author Wendy Anne McCartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Wondrous Beginnings PublishingPublisher Wondrous Beginnings...

"Your good nature will bring you much happiness." -Peking Noodle Co. We began this book with the belief that there are individual differences in tempera ment that impact the trajectory of the course of development. At a particular point in time, 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 Divorced Dad's Survival Book: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids shows how to navigate the process of getting a divorce so as to minimize the negative impact on one's children. The goal of the book is to show how fathers can use the divorce to...

The Divorced Dad's Survival Book: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids shows how to navigate the process of getting a divorce so as to minimize the negative impact on one's children. The goal of the book is to show how fathers can use the divorce to...

Originally published in 1992 in French as Peter Pan ou l'Enfant Triste, the book was translated into English in 1997 and released as Peter Pan: The Story of Lost Childhood. This new English language version is translated by author Kathleen Kelley-Laine...

Drawing together motivational theory, research-based evidence and guidance for best practice, this book presents innovative models for goal-setting and goal pursuit in therapy with children. Setting goals not only allows children, and their families, to...

Many young people appear troubled. Sometimes their behaviour can intimidate or simply baffle. Drawing on the principles of Personal Construct Theory and now fully updated in response to popular demand, The Child Within helps develop our understanding of...