Anna Freud Notebook (Great Brains of Psychology Notebooks, #2)
by Human Editions
Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking-Free Chapters
by Jerry Wyckoff Phd and Barbara C Unell
Discipline without Shouting or Spanking is a practical guide that shows parents how to manage the most difficult part of parenting. It provides proven methods for handling more than 30 of the most common forms of childhood misbehaviors. Practical solutions lead to practical results! These free chapters will help you get started on a calmer path; Aggressive Behavior, Behaving Shyly, Fighting Cleanup Routines, Getting Out of Bed at Night, "Hyper" Activity, and Lying Discipline Without Shouting or...
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...
Parenting in Transracial Adoption
by Jane Hoyt-Oliver, Hope Haslam Straughan, Ph.D., and Jayne E. Schooler
An essential resource for transracially adoptive parents and the professionals who serve them, this book offers practical strategies for helping a transracially adopted child through the challenges he or she may face. Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children identified as being of a different race, this book draws from real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after transracial adoption. Its goal: to help adoptive parents (...
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...
Assessment of Children's Intelligence and Special Abilities
by Marjorie L. Lewis and Jerome M. Sattler
Child Development Investigation Topics
Social Competence in Children (Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, #1408)
by Wolfgang Luck and Margaret Semrud-Clikeman
In this book, readers will discover a developmental view of social functioning in children at different stages. Chapters are based in transactional theory in that the environment plays a role in the development of social competence skills as well as the biological contributions the child brings to his/her experiences. The familial and school contributions to social understanding are discussed in this volume.
This book shows how the brain-mind-body is a self-organizing system that constructs our experience of reality. Drawing upon the latest brain research and highlighting the connection to quantum physics, the author traces the development of intelligence from infancy to adulthood and explores the profound biological dynamic between the heart and mind. He further analyzes the major negative forces that hamper the development of intelligence and indicates children's premature exposure to such institu...
Parenting is a job that goes on twenty-four hours a day. Nighttime Parenting helps parents understand why babies sleep differently than adults, offers solutions to nighttime problems, and even describes how certain styles of nighttime parenting can aid in child spacing and lower the risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.Renowned pediatrician Dr. William Sears helps you find a solution to your baby's sleepless nights. Directed at lessening night-waking and increasing your ability to cope, this un...
Telecourse Student Guide
by Berger, Professor Richard O Straub, and Professor Kathleen Stassen Berger
How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence (Penguin Reference Books S.)
by Carmen McGuinness and Geoffrey McGuinness
Are there specific ways for parents and teachers to help children better understand what they read and hear? Is it possible to raise a child's verbal intelligence? The authors of this book answer with a resounding yes. Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness, creators of the acclaimed and widely used Phono-Graphix method of reading instruction, explain why it is important to teach children comprehension skills and how to do it. Parents and teachers seeking sound, research-supported advice on ways to im...
How Deaf Children Learn (Perspectives on Deafness)
by Marc Marschark and Peter C Hauser
In this invaluable guide, renowned authorities Marc Marschark and Peter Hauser highlight important new advances in scientific and educational research that can help parents and teachers of students with significant hearing loss. The authors stress that deaf children have strengths and needs that are sometimes dramatically different from those who can hear. Consequently, if deaf students are to have full academic access and optimal educational outcomes, it is essential that parents and teachers l...
Dr. Toy's Smart Play Smart Toys - Expanded & Updated 4th Edition
by Stevanne Auerbach