Listening to children is a skill which parents, teachers, caretakers and school counsellors need to employ every day. From a deep respect for the already existing attitude of these adults, the authors offer an extra dimension to the art of communicating with children. This book is about listening in many ways, both to your deepest self and to others. It is listening to what children say, feel, and think, but also to what is deeper than thoughts and feelings.Change in behaviour arises when childr...
Attention in Early Development
by Holly Alliger Ruff and Mary Klevjord Rothbart
This text provides both a review of the literature and a theoretical framework for understanding the development of visual attention from infancy to early childhood. Taking a functional approach to the topic, the book discusses the development of the selective and state-related aspects of attention and the emergence of higher-level controls on attention. It also explores the issue of individual differences in these facets of attention and considers the possible origins of early deficits in atten...
Explore the unique social and educational laboratory known as the Israeli kibbutz!This valuable book examines state-of-the-art innovations in services for children and youth happening today in the kibbutz in Israel. It brings to light the latest developments in integrated services for clients inside and outside the kibbutz society, services for detached and troubled individuals and groups from outside the kibbutz, and regional services that include kibbutz and non-kibbutz children who live at ho...
Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness
by Thomas C Dalton and Victor W. Bergenn
This new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive experiences. In so doing, it helps us better understand how experience affects brain growth and a childs capacity to learn. In this interdisciplinary
A guide for parents who wish to understand the physical and psychological problems of early childhood.
Our parents are a huge deal: whether we adore them or keep them at a distance, who we are today (what love stories we get into, our attitudes to work, our self-esteem) is crucially determined by our relationships with the vastly significant people who put us on the earth. Getting Over Your Parents is a practical guide on how to navigate the often complex legacies left to us by our parents. It gives us a vocabulary with which to understand certain of the stranger and more difficult things that p...
School-Based Behavioral Assessment (Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools)
by Sandra M Chafouleas, Austin H Johnson, T Chris Riley-Tillman, and Emily A Iovino
Revised and expanded with the latest tools and strategies, this concise book offers guidance for effectively conducting social, emotional, and behavioral assessments in today's K-12 schools. The expert authors present foundational knowledge on assessment and data-based decision making at all levels--whole schools, small groups, or individual students--within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). Chapters describe when, why, and how to use extant data, systematic direct observation, direct beh...
Noted for providing everything needed to develop individualized positive behavior support (PBS) plans for students with pervasive behavioral challenges, this authoritative guide has been revised and expanded to reflect 15 years of changes in the field. The book walks practitioners through the PBS process, emphasizing a team-based approach and presenting assessment procedures, intervention strategies, and guiding questions. Detailed case examples illustrate ways to meet the diverse needs of stude...
In this text, T.G.R. Bowes provides insights into the processes by which infants acquire knowledge of themselves and the world they live in. The author argues that infants are incessantly seeking information; that they use rational, logical processes to organize the information they acquire; and that the study of these processes can help clarify how information is used throughout the lifespan.
Charting the development of several different facets of memory, "The Development of Memory in Children" shows how developmental changes in memory relate to more general cognitive changes. Robert Kail demonstrates that memory is not an isolated intellectual skill but a process involved in many intellectual and social activities. He also points out that memory is a convenient shorthand term for a collection of processes rather than a single discrete faculty. Changes to the third edition include ad...
Assessment & Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents & Families
Empowers young children with vital coping skills to help them manage teasing Easing the Teasing is a crucial reference for parents and educators who want to help teasing victims acquire the coping skills necessary to manage these painful incidents. Easing the Teasing provides elementary and junior high school kids with a repertoire of strategies to deflect and discourage teasing--including positive self-talk; ignoring; visualization; reframing the tease; complimenting or agreeing with the teaser...
Young Children Learning (Understanding Children's Worlds, #3) (Fontana Developing Child S.)
by Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes
This fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children learn and how best to teach them. In particular it turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children; and it throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home. The second edition of this bestselling text includes a new introduction by Judy Dunn. F...
Young refugees from many parts of the world are increasingly present in UK early years settings. This book explores the crucial importance of play for young refugee children’s development. It considers the implications of war and conflict on young children and notes how opportunities for play are denied. It provides a framework for early years practitioners to support refugee children and their families, offers practical examples of ways to promote play, and sets work with refugee children into...
The twofold aim of the research reported in this book is first, to determine whether solid evidence could be found that would support the validity of a distinction between intelligence and creativity as modes of cognitive activity, and second, if a distinction between these concepts could be given acceptable empirical support, to investigate the possible psychological correlates of individual differences in creativity and intelligence when variations along these two dimensions were considered jo...
An in-depth presentation of Steiner's ideas about the nature of the twelve human senses as he saw them, and their role in education. Although of interest to teachers and parents of students attending Steiner Waldorf institutions, this book is also directed to anyone with an interest in child education and philosophies of teaching.
How to Cope with Childhood Stress
This text is designed to broaden teachers' understanding of the various difficulties that children with personal traumas and crises can experience. It offers practical advice and information on a range of issues and pastoral problems facing schools, including divorce, bereavement, drugs, illness and disability. The contributors are all experienced educational psychologists or social workers. It is suitable for heads, deputies and teachers responsible for pastoral care in primary and secondary sc...