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A hands-on, companion resource for the All Feelings Welcome approach to raising kids All Feelings Welcome, by early childhood experts Kelly Oriard and Callie Christensen, is an accessible and evidence-based guide to helping your kids build positive,...

Researchers and students in developmental psychology have pointed out that the numerous findings from research about human development seem disconnected and that it is difficult to fit fragmented bits of information together. Studies of separate domains...

Regardless of a child's hearing abilities, increasing parents' knowledge about their baby or toddler's expected development and their confidence in their parenting abilities supports positive early interactions and developmental progress. Fortunately, as...

Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts investigates the impact of screen media on key aspects of children and adolescents' cognitive development. Highlighting how screen media impact cognitive development, the book addresses a topic often neglected...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316516471Author Dr NowickiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Psychosocial Experiences and Adjustment of Migrants: Coming to the USA explores the emotional experiences of migrants seeking to come to America, including psychological sequelae of such relocation from one's home country to another country. This book is...

Brain-Based Learning and Education presents a new type of education that uses brain-based and self-control theory-driven training. Leaving aside the current focus in education on content knowledge, it examines essential character strengths such as...

One of the most widely used assessments of infants and toddlers, the BAYLEY-III measures the major areas of development including cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive functioning. This book provides an introduction into use of the...

Language development is one of the major battle grounds within the humanities and sciences. This is the first time that the three major theories in language development research have been fully described and compared within the covers of a single book...

This book brings together eminent and emerging scholars to present cutting-edge research on diverse conceptions of giftedness and talent from a range of international perspectives. It covers classical views, emphasizing IQ, but also seeks to move the...

This handbook presents an overview of research on test anxiety and related forms of students' stress and anxiety at schools and other academic environments, and also brings together a series of psychological interventions to prevent and treat anxiety...

The topic of play is fundamental to understanding how children grow and learn. Play in Early Childhood Education Second Edition is an essential introduction to the theories behind this play and how it relates to children's development and learning. It...

The Feminist Companion series includes titles that act as your friends and mentors in book form, supporting you in your studies, especially when things get tough. This companion offers a better-informed understanding of developmental psychology, covering...

Children's eating habits change often between infancy and preschool. Dr. Paula's Good Nutrition Guide for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers provides nutrition guidelines for young children and gives parents confidence in this confusing and important...

This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.In this eye-opening book, experienced child psychologist Jennifer W...

Intellectual development is primarily considered a domain specific enterprise. Children develop naive physics, a folk psychology (theory of mind), a naive biology, etc. But understanding perspective is a general, overarching phenomenon that cuts across...

Exploring the Developing Child and Their Age: An Anthology provides students with a curated collection of readings that examine various theories in human development and help readers better understand the growth and behavior of youths from early...

While psychological research and theory has outlined many periods of the adult lifespan, one period of adult development remains largely ignored, the period from ages 30 to 45. Clare M. Mehta focuses on this period, outlining the concept of established...

Financial independence and financial well-being are primary goals for many emerging adults and are often viewed as markers of adulthood. However, many emerging adults throughout the world are struggling financially due to a complex economy and a lack of...

In Flourishing As a Scholar, the contributors offer a comprehensive resource that is intended to benefit scholars seeking guidance for how to use diverse research methods to study emerging adulthood. Studying emerging adults (typically people between the...

Discover the ultimate revision guide for psychology students to help you excel in your assessments! Psychology Express: Developmental Psychology, 2nd edition is a concise, comprehensive and engaging guide, packed with resources that will help you to...

Originally published in 1987, Malcolm Hill examines the different ways in which parents share responsibility for looking after their pre-school children with other people, whether members of their social networks, formal groups or paid carers. He also...

This book provides the research, education, and structure required for conceptualizing the therapeutic treatment of children ages 12 and under who present with a range of problematic sexual behaviors. This resource includes a literature review,...

All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration/m-/but some do it much more often than others. If you have a "smart but scattered" child, take heart. This encouraging guide is grounded in research on the...

Utilizing narrative storytelling, this user-friendly guide describes the principles of early relational health with direct application to day-to-day work with infants and parents. Practitioners on the front lines often feel great pressure to know "what...

Contextualising core topics in development from infancy to adolescence, Child Development guides students to understand the field as both fully grounded in research and widely applied in everyday life. Placing particular emphasis on the influence of...

A twenty-plus-year study of former child soldiers offers far-reaching insight into mental health and resilience after extreme trauma.During the civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002, an estimated 20,000 children were forced to join the...

Transformative social and emotional learning (TSEL) is an asset-based, culturally responsive way of teaching that sees social and emotional learning and social justice as inextricably linked. This practical guide will support teachers in centering TSEL...

This international study of children's experiences of organized persecution, explores the Holocaust and its aftermath as prototypical social trauma. Traumatized persons' feelings of shame and guilt as well as a sense of being different may prevail, and...

Resilience in Children, Adolescents, and Adults: Translating Research into Practice recognizes the growing need to strengthen the links between theory, assessment, interventions, and outcomes to give resilience a stronger empirical base, resulting in...

This book offers a health-oriented, integrative approach to adolescent group therapy. George R. Holmes and his associates believe that promoting social competency in each adolescent group member is central to successful therapy. The enablement of...

The Childhood Hand that Disturbs (CHaD), a new projective test, is a diagnostic and therapeutic tool that is broadly applicable, but particularly effective with abused, depressed, and suicidal subjects. While the CHaD has the advantage of being quick and...

A child specialist describes his unconventional techniques, both professional and personal, to draw out a severly introverted, speechless nine-year-old boy who had not been reached by other therapists or even his family. The boy had built an elaborate...

Of those which deal with sex and love addiction, this work is alone in that it examines adolescents as a specific population. The number of case histories presented in the text are a prominent feature. The work should be of interest to clinicians and...

This book represents an updating of approaches and techniques which have been developed and utilized during the years since the publication of Multimodal Therapy with Children and Helping Your Child. The goal of this book is to provide a useful handbook...

Behavioral-developmental pediatrician Lawrence Diller continues his investigation into the widespread use of psychiatric drugs for children in America, an investigation that began with his first book, Running on Ritalin. In this work at hand, Diller...

School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems is a book about helping children and adolescents who engage in severe behaviors to positively succeed in the school setting. The emphasis of this book is on the prevention of behavior...

In her newest book-written for both lay and professional people in all walks of life and cultures-author, lecturer, educator, Angela Browne-Miller presents a set of tools and awarenesses adults can apply to raising and teaching children and teens. Full...

An unusually understandable survey of the forces or perception and feeling that determine the purchases we make; the roles played by fashion, fads, and status; and the psychological needs that they fulfill. The book discusses how children become...