Showing titles in Child Psychology

From an internationally renowned pediatrician and an eminent child psychiatrist, a guidebook that helps parents through the challenging preschool and first-grade years. Through delightful profiles of four very different children, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Joshua D. Sparrow apply the...

Every child comes with an innate temperament, which includes a unique set of emotional reactions and personal strengths, a motivational style, and needs that demand attention. And every family has its own values and culture. While we cannot change our child’s natural temperament (nor would we want to!), we can impact their self-regulation systems, nurture their positive behaviors, and promote healthy social and emotional development.

In The Ultimate Book of Confidence for Teen Girls, discover transformative self-help. Teenage girls are equipped with essential tools to navigate adolescence, embrace their unique selves, and build resilience in this book on confidence (Age 13-18).

Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" five-to-12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley's approach is research based, practical, and doable - and leads to lasting behavior change. Vivid, realistic stories illustrate what the techniques look like in action. Thoroughly revised to include the latest resources and 15 years' worth of research advances, the second edition also reflects Dr. Barkley's ongoing experiences with parents and kids.

Screens are everywhere. Kids spend an average of seven and a half hours on digital devices every day, not including when they're in school. The impacts of this are profound, and yet cutting screen time can seem impossible in today's world.

This enormously fascinating and practical book shows parents and teachers how to help boys overcome their current classroom obstacles by helping to create the proper learning environment, understand how to help boys work with their unique natural gifts, nurture and expand every bit of their potential, and enabling them to succeed in life the way they ought to.

Ces enregistrements sont l'aboutissement d'un travail de fond sur la totalité des émissions conservées à l'INA (plus de 100 émissions - 1000 questions/réponses). Les réponses apportées par Françoise Dolto aux problèmes de l'enfance ont été choisies parmi les 375 heures d'enregistrements en fonction de leur pertinence et du traitement du sujet. Les modalités d'enregistrement des émissions de Françoise Dolto peuvent expliquer des légères modifications de couleur sonore dans une même séquence.

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development gives therapists and counselors the basics they need to understand their clients in the context of development and to explain development to parents. The chapters take the listener through the physical, social, and identity developments occurring at each age, explaining how each stage of development is closely linked to mental health and how that is revealed in therapy. This ideal guide for students, as well as early and experienced professionals, will also give listeners the tools to communicate successfully with the child’s guardians or teachers.

By presenting the autism diagnosis through the lens of a disordered nervous system-that is, by applying Polyvagal Theory-this book opens new avenues for intervention and treatment, while challenging age-old assumptions of what autism means and how it presents itself.

Explains how babies remember their experiences from the womb and birth as implicit memory, impressions that are held in emotions, images, and the body Examines scientific evidence of how preverbal memory works and how prenates are highly responsive to their mother’s perceptions ...

A modern classic on the gentle art of discipline for toddlers, by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of Elevating Child Care “No Bad Kids provides practical ways to respond to the challenges of toddlerhood while nurturing a respectful relationship with your...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The ultimate guide for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. “An accessible, enjoyable, and detailed road map for addressing even the most delicate topics with confidence and compassion.”—Lisa Damour, PhD, author of Untangled, Under...

Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they experience it in different ways. But learning cannot be the whole story or else children could learn anything at any age—which they cannot. Michael Tomasello argues that children of different ages live and learn in different worlds because their capacities to cognitively represent and operate on their experience change in significant ways over the first years of life.

In Free to Fly, Nicole Runyon reveals how today’s technology is crippling our kids' development, and she offers parents a clear path to reclaim their children’s mental health, build resilience, and foster true independence in the next generation. In two-plus decades of working as a child therapist, author Nicole Runyon, LMSW, has seen the devastating effect technology is having on today’s young people. From social media and gaming addiction to pornography and sextortion, children’s innocence and health are being demolished by their virtual realities.

You may have tried to change your life many times, in big or small ways. You may have struggled with your habits, feelings, perceptions, with your behavior, relationships, job, diet, anything. You may have taken workshops and trainings, read books, and tried therapies. If all this hasn't worked, if you’re still somehow lost or stuck in your life, the problem may be this one persistent mistake. It causes most of our problems. It derails our lives in countless ways, leaves us repeating pointless or self-destructive habits, poisons relationships of all kinds, or prolongs misery.

Learn to love the ups and downs of parenting. Understand your child and respond better to their needs by following advice from parenting experts. Accepting that every child is unique, A Practical Guide to Child Psychology offers new approaches to parenting and explains how they can benefit your family, helping you to put them into practice straight away. Full of case studies and activities, and fresh, accessible and useful ideas, this practical guide will help you to guide your child through life’s challenges and support their learning and development.

Thomas Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life. Illustrating his points with examples, and supporting them with the latest research findings, he documents the cognitive, social, and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgments and decisions.

This classic guide has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice.

9 Ways to a Resilient Child will help parents enable their children to cope with the challenges that life throws at us all. Discover why winners aren't always grinners, the problems with common advice like 'toughen up, princess', the negative impact of helicopter parenting and how praise can harm instead of help. Understand both the protective and the risk factors affecting resilience for better or for worse.

In just a few years, today's children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those that were available to their parents or grandparents. While the US economy becomes ever more information-driven, our system of education seems stuck on the idea that "content is king", neglecting other skills that 21st century citizens sorely need.