Hochaltrigkeit (Integrative Modelle in Psychotherapie, Supervision Und Berat)
In der Politik wird die sogenannte Vergreisung der Gesellschaft meist als Problem gesehen, z.B. fur die Rentenkassen oder das Gesundheitssystem, doch sind mit dem hohen Alter auch positive Aspekte verbunden: Das Buch beleuchtet in interdisziplinarer Sicht Probleme, Herausforderung und Chancen der Hochaltrigkeit - sowohl aus gesellschaftlicher, vor allem aber aus individueller Perspektive. Mit einem modernen, biopsychosozialen Ansatz werden wichtige Themen wie das alternde Gehirn, die psychologis...
ADHD in Lebanese Schools (SpringerBriefs in Psychology) (SpringerBriefs in School Psychology)
by Hala Mohammed Berri and Anies Al-Hroub
This Brief addresses the causes, assessment, and treatment of ADHD in Lebanese schoolchildren. It details how the disorder is currently defined in Lebanese elementary schools and examines schoolteachers’ understanding of and conceptions about ADHD across three domains: general knowledge; symptoms and diagnosis; and treatment. This concise volume presents the authors’ research into Lebanese schoolteachers’ knowledge of ADHD and their ability and readiness to address the psychological and academic...
Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum
by Marjorie J Kostelnik, Anne K Soderman, Alice P Whiren, and Michelle L Rupiper
This comprehensive text brings together the best information currently available for developing an integrated approach to curriculum and instruction in the early years. It is designed for current and future early childhood professionals working in formal group settings with young children ranging in age from three to eight. The text also creates a bridge between the worlds of child care and early education, as well as between preprimary and primary programs. The effective ideas presented are des...
Islands of Eight Million Smiles (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
by Hiroshi Aoyagi
AEPS Curriculum for Birth to Three Years
Convenient and reliable, AEPS is a curriculum-based assessment/evaluation system designed for use with children from birth to 6 years who have special needs or are at risk for developmental delays, Developed and refined through more than 10 years of field-testing, the two measurement volumes track six key AEPS domains -- fine motors, gross motor, adaptive, cognitive, social-communication, and social development -- and provide a framework for developing IEP/IFSP objectives. The two curriculum vol...
The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Psychology and Early Childhood Education
With the expertise of a body of international contributors from Australia, Canada, USA, UK, Finland, The Netherlands, Italy, Greece and Chile, this handbook explores key in-depth issues in quality Early Childhood Development and Education. Unlike previous publications in the discipline, this title combines research and practice to investigate emotional and social development, wellbeing and mental health, language, cultural environments, as well as the role of parents in a child's development. It...
Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood (SpringerBriefs in Criminology)
by Wesley G. Jennings, Rolf Loeber, Dustin A. Pardini, Alex R. Piquero, and David P. Farrington
This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in 1987, and involves repeated follow-ups on several community cohorts (starting in grades 1, 4, and 7) of inner-city boys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This Brief covers the Youngest and Oldest PYS cohort...
"One of the only child-raising books that does justice to the importance of genetics and heredity...jam-packed with valuable information for every parent." Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, Author of HOW TO PARENT, HOW TO FATHER, and HOW TO DISCIPLINE WITH LOVE Complete, authoritative, and sensible, this excellent resource draws on four years of research, and numerous studies and interviews, made public here for the first time. From the day you bring him home through his crucial elementary school years, you...
History of Childhood (Condor Books)
from the Foreword: Possibly the heartless treatment of children, from the practice of infanticide and abandonment through to the neglect, the rigors of swaddling, the purposeful starving, the beatings, the solitary confinement, and so on, was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature, of the inbred disregard of the rights and feelings of others. Children, being physically unable to resist aggression, were the victims of forces over which they had no control,...
The last twenty years of research on human development have seen a revolution in our view of the human infant. A newborn baby looks at his mother and imitates her actions, without learning. How does he know how to poke his tongue out? Why does he know? Mostof us still assume representations in the mind to be the condition of intelligent action, even though simple robots with no central representations at all can navigate around cluttered environments and draw maps of them. Nearly everyone wants...
Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think! bridges the gap between how children think and learn and how they feel and behave. Dr. Wanda Draper discusses a whole-child approach to articulate the child’s development and its relationship to behavior and learning from infancy through adolescence. Based on thirty years of experience with thousands of children of all ages, and their parents and teachers, she suggests simple yet powerful ways to help children achieve success in school and life. She says, “Y...
'A touching, tender story filled with wonderful humour. An absolute joy' Sarah Haywood 'A very special book, really enjoyable' Katie Fforde I don't have any friends, only dog ones, because they don't make you do bad things. I don't want any human friends, actually. It's for the best.' Hope Nicely hasn't had an easy life. But she's happy enough living at 23 Station Close with her mum, Jenny Nicely, and she loves her job, walking other people's dogs. She's a bit different, but as Jenny always...