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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615305813Author Sylvia BrodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint IpbooksPublisher IpbooksWeight(grams) 367g

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...

Now Available in Paperback, Adoption Beyond Borders endorses international adoption as a viable path to child welfare by exploring key topics including: * Effects of institutionalization on children's developing brains, cognitive abilities, and...

1. It is incumbent on medical providers that they are asking patients to - here to regimens with demonstrated eficacy, Providers need to remind themselves of the Hippocratic oath: "I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability...

Sexual exploitation of children is a major social problem in the United States and around the world. Depending upon how such exploitation is defined and measured, divergent estimates indicate that in the U.S. between 3 and 37 percent of males, and...

This book examines the role of peer relationships in child and adolescent development by tracking research findings from the early 1900s to the present. Dividing the research into three generations, the book describes what has been learned about...

Measurement in human services means one thing: how well the effort serves clients. But the data doesn't exist in a vacuum and must be communicated clearly between provider and client, provider and management, and across systems. During the past decade,...

It is never too early to become involved but it can easily be too late. Armed with such alarming statistics as 125 million primary-school age children are not in school; another 150 million children drop out of primary school before they complete four...

This highly readable volume presents a concise but comprehensive overview of all that is known about autism, including its history, diagnosis, biological causes, neuropsychological mechanisms, and treatment. The authors offer an up-to-date review of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893914882Author Jaan ValsinerFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Obsessions with contamination, hoarding objects and exact orderliness, and compulsions involving rituals of washing, cleaning, checking, re-checking and counting, are exhibited by children with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). This volume draws on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978780357Author Jerry KirkpatrickFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Kirkpatrick BooksPublisher Kirkpatrick BooksWeight(grams) 152g

It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837158945Author Florence Laura GoodenoughFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Women's schooling is strongly related to child survival and other outcomes beneficial to children throughout the developing world, but the reasons behind these statistical connections have been unclear. In Literacy and Mothering, the authors show, for...

What is the nature of the relationships between family variables and children's successes in school? An examination of this question is the basis of this volume. Building on a model for evaluating the relationships between families, schools and children,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645081176Author Louise L KallawayFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Sharanis Lifestyle Group Pty LtdPublisher Sharanis Lifestyle Group Pty Ltd

This new volume in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society represents a milestone in Search Institute's signature work on the Developmental Assets that children and adolescents need in their lives to succeed...

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...

Designed primarily for teachers and school psychologists, this text reviews the literature on behavioral processes used in school-specific techniques like contracting, self-management, and token economies. Much of the material applies to mainstream...

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...

This work presents landmark research concerning the vital dynamics of childhood psychological development. It's origin can be traced to the late 1970s, when several psychologists began to challenge existing notions of cognitive development by suggesting...

Dr Cook has worked and published extensively in the field of child and family mental health. He is the author of Early Childcare: Infants and Nations at Risk. In Mothering Matters he has created something of great value, summarising much research, making...

This book posits that multiple perspectives of key school staff (such as teachers, principals, school resource officers, school psychologists and counselors, nurses, and coaches) can provide a deeper understanding of bullying, which remains an immediate...

Each spring millions of teenagers-and their parents -start thinking about what they'll do over the summer. Many need to earn money for school or a car, while others want to gain experience through internships, volunteer opportunities, or travel. But...

This practical book describes the latest collaborative clinical work, research, and teaching between psychologists and pediatricians in medical settings during the 1990s. The author and his colleagues thoroughly detail the benefits and pitfalls of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525535307Author Diane Benoit MDFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 599g

Dramatic cases of child abuse and neglect are featured with tragic regularity in the news. The stories vividly demonstrate both the urgent need for improved child protection services and the unwieldiness and ineffectiveness of the systems charged with...

As reflected in the title, the purpose of this book is to guide clinicians in understanding and treating youth with severe antisocial behavior. Children and adolescents with conduct disorders operate at quite a high cost to society. In many opinion...

I have often wondered if the opposition to women's choosing to abort a pregnancy masks a fear of women choosing to have and raise children on their own. When a woman separatesmotherhood from marriage, she claims a freedom in the realm of intimate rela...

This volume, the first in the series, explores the high-functioning group of people within the spectrum of autism disorders. It is the culmination of over a decade of clinical work and research, including the most current information available about this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648091608Author Meg WardlawFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Growing Stronger PublishingPublisher Growing Stronger PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Pain is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon, with physiological, behav ioral, emotional, cognitive, and developmental aspects (Zeltzer, Barr, McGrath, & Schechter, 1992). To effectively evaluate and manage pain in children, the clini cian must be...

. . . provides rich and interesting detail about the conditions, values, and experiences of children and those who rear them - Contemporary PsychologyBook InformationISBN 9780893918330Author Jaan ValsinerFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Praeger...

This work presents one of the first thorough applications of the Rorschach Test to preschool children. The findings are analyzed in terms of age, sex, mental ability, and various other measurable aspects of personality.Book InformationISBN...

This volume presents a balanced survey of children and violence in the United States-specifically those children who commit acts such as murder, rape, and assault. The physical, cultural, social, economic, and legal aspects of this pressing issue are...

Synthesizing insights from psychology and philosophy with his own wide-ranging experiences around the world, Dr. James Garbarino takes readers on a personalized journey into the dark side of human experience as it is lived by children. In these highly...

In today's fast-paced, often-dehumanizing world, this book brings together the advice and expertise of leading scholars dedicated to affecting positive youth development. Providing a multifaceted, multidisciplinary blueprint for social change the book...

This study examines the problem of how culture is integrated through the medium of personality processes and the influence both of culture upon personality and of personality upon culture. The research methods are also detailed.Book InformationISBN...

Diseases have a history, and understanding that history helps us understand how best to treat and control disease today. Today's students are confronted with a panoply of often-frightening illnesses and afflictions - the Biographies of Disease series...