The challenges of providing mental health services to school children are numerous and diverse, ranging from staffing shortages to insufficient funding to family resistance to administrative indifference. Yet with the U.S. Surgeon General estimating that approximately 20% of young people display signs of psychological problems, the need for such services - particularly for interventions that not only address mental health issues but also reinforce protective factors - is considerable. Evidence-...
Online Course Pack: Children's Thinking: (United States Edition) with Research Navigator Access Card
by Robert S Siegler and Martha W. Alibali
This online course pack consists of Children's Thinking: with Research Navigator Access Card.
Originally published in 1930, this title looks at the education of children. Adler believes the problems from a psychological point of view are the same as for adults, that of self-knowledge and rational self-direction. However, the difference being that due to the `immaturity of children, the question of guidance - never wholly absent in the case of adults - takes on supreme importance.' The title starts by presenting the Individual Psychology viewpoint as a whole, with the later chapters under...
Teaching Adolescents to Think and Act Responsibly
by Ann-Marie DiBiase, John C. Gibbs, Granville Bud Potter, and Matthew R. Blount
Holding students accountable for their actions and inspiring them with greater expectations is to respect them, to believe in them as people with positive potential. The EQUIP approach helps facilitate mature and accurate cognitive habits and behavioral skills in at-risk or potentially at-risk adolescents in the school setting. The curriculum addresses the ""three D's,"" common in these adolescents-developmental delays in moral judgment, self-serving cognitive distortions, and social skills def...
Anna Freud Notebook (Great Brains of Psychology Notebooks, #2)
by Human Editions
Maximum Strength Parenting
by Andrew Ph D & Resnick Lauren Vaughan, Ph D Andrew Vaughan, and MS CCC Slp Lauren Resnick
Child Care and Education (NVQ/SVQ workbook: Level 3)
Designed for students completing an NVQ in Child Care at level 3, this workbook includes all the main endorsements as well as core and generic units. Basic information and suggestions for further reading are given, together with extensive questions to confirm students' grasp of knowledge. The text covers all Level 3 options, and when completed, the workbook forms the student's portfolio of evidence.
Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ... magic forests and enchanted towers ... little pigs and big bad wolves ... Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean?In this award-winning work of criticism, renowned psychoanalyst Dr Bruno Bettelheim presents a thought provoking and stimulating exploration of the best-known fairy stories. He reveals the true content of the stories and shows how children can use them to cope with their ba...
Social Work & Psychological Services for Refugee Children
by Takwana Chenyika
A hands-on memory-training program for children and adolescents featuring dozens of practical, evidence-based memory exercises A practical workbook designed to assist students whose academic learning is suffering due to a memory deficit or ineffective utilization of their memory capabilities, Helping Students Remember provides numerous strategies and methods to strengthen memory, including chunking, organization, keyword, self-testing, pegword, loci, and mnemonics. Drawing on the author's exten...
Strengthen your relationship with your children with this revised edition of the book by renowned psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott that has helped millions of parents around the world. In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinical psychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and family relationship specialist Dr. H. Wallace Goddard usher this bestselling classic into the new century while retaining the book’s positive message and Haim Ginott’s warm, accessible voice. Based on the...
The Drama of Reality Television (Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action, #17)
by Danielle Ligocki
In The Drama of Reality Television: Lives of Youth in Liquid Modern Times, the author offers a glimpse into the lives, viewing habits, and opinions of today's Generation Z. While reality television is quite often viewed as just a guilty pleasure, the conversations that the author had with young people show that reality television is a major pedagogical force in the lives of young viewers. This is compounded by our current liquid modern time period; a time in which everything is fluid, there...
Using children's own accounts, "Childhood Identities" explores how children between the ages of four and nine come to an understanding of the physical body as a medium of social expression, and the significance which this has on their relationships and friendhips. Concentrating on the child's perspective, it raises questions about ideas of difference and disability as they relate to social identity and personhood. The children's accounts also reveal the subtle and different ways in which childre...
Development of Nonverbal Behavior in Children
When I organized a symposium on the development of nonverbal behavior for the 1980 meeting ofthe American Psychological Association, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches. Thinking about the many people who were doing important and interesting research in this area, it was hard to narrow down the choice to just a few. Eventually, I put together a panel which at least was representative of this burgeoning area of research. In planning this volume two years later, I was faced with much the s...
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