Showing titles in Child Psychology

In Our Fathers, Ourselves, research psychologist, author and scholar Dr. Peggy Drexler examines the ways in which the father-daughter bond impacts women and offers helpful advice for creating a better, stronger, more rewarding relationship. Through her extensive research and interviews with women, Dr. Drexler paints an intimate, timely portrait of the modern father-daughter relationship.

>n Making Grateful Kids, two of the leading authorities on gratitude among young people, Jeffrey J. Froh and Giacomo Bono, introduce their latest and most compelling research, announce groundbreaking findings, and share real-life stories from adults and youth to show parents, teachers, mentors, and kids themselves how to achieve greater life satisfaction through gratitude.

Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. This audiobook helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues that kids today face.

We’re in the midst of a parenting climate that feeds on “more”: more expert advice, more gear, more fear about competition and safety, and more choices to make about education, nutrition, even entertainment.

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era.

Child psychiatrist, Cal Colarusso M.D. loved raising two boys and a girl through these wonderful years, has fond memories of his own childhood in a much simpler age and has had the privilege of treating scores of boys and girls over the past five decades. In this book he uses his personal experience as a parent, grandfather and therapist to share his knowledge of this age with parents in a relaxed but informative manner. After all, after months and years of sleepless nights, dirty diapers and temper tantrums, parents deserve a Golden Age.

Child psychiatrist, Calvin Colarusso M.D., has been evaluating and treating children for 50 years. He writes in a simple direct style that makes it possible for parents to take the first step toward getting an evaluation of their child with less apprehension and greater understanding of the procedures involved. What Parents Need to Know About Choosing a Therapist for Their Child is a roadmap directing parents toward a solution for existing problems and a path to healthy development for your child.

Neuroscientists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang (who is also a parent) explain the facets and functions of the developing brain, discussing salient subjects such as sleep problems, language learning, gender differences, and autism. They dispel common myths about important subjects, such as the value of educational videos for babies, the meaning of ADHD in the classroom, and the best predictor of academic success (hint: It's not IQ). Most of all, this book will help you know when to worry, how to respond, and, most important, when to relax.

A superb, high-quality hypnosis audio program combining skilled hypnotherapy techniques with state of the art digital recording technology. This audio is aimed at empowering children and is packed full of hypnotic positive suggestions embedded in absorbing story lines. Children of all ages can listen to the program, though the first half is aimed at a slightly younger audience, approximately ages 5 to 12, and the second half is roughly aimed at 10 to 16-year-olds.

Parents can easily feel overwhelmed when suddenly faced with a moody, defiant, unfocused, unpredictable, angry or overly sensitive teenager. They wonder if these changes are a normal part of adolescence of if their teen is in need of help. When to Worry helps parents distinguish typical teenage behaviors from those that merit concern. It then walks parents through steps they can take to help troubled teens before it's too late.

This classic resource shows parents how to set clear, concise guidelines to ensure positive and constructive discipline.

Best-selling novelist Jonathan Kellerman returns to his roots as a scientist and child psychologist to dissect a problem that is attacking our society: dangerous children who, in all likelihood, will grow up to be dangerous adults. Kellerman explores the "nature v. nurture" theory, discusses the legal and psychological ramifications of treating such children as adult criminals, and tackles the assertion that violence in the media is to blame.

One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving - and preventing - children's sleep problems. Here Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles.

Embarking on the dating scene can be a fun though sometimes daunting prospect for any single woman. But for the more than 10 million single women in the U.S. with children at home, dating is a much more complicated matter. Whether uncoupled through divorce or death, single moms face a wide range of questions: When will I be ready to date and how do I start? When-and what-should I tell the kids? What happens if I love the guy and the kids hate him?

L'audiolibro presenta terribili testimonianze di vita, direttamente raccolte nelle carceri, nelle comunità di recupero, per le strade, da giovani violenti. Contro la frequente e comune rimozione sociale che accompagna il proliferare dei comportamenti giovanili violenti, criminali, devianti, Paolo Crepet tenta di comprendere, e far comprendere, da dove traggano origine tali condotte e, al di là del contesto degradato, suggerisce quanto anche il decadimento delle nostre relazioni affettive e l'indisponibilità all'ascolto possano influire sulla diffusione della criminalità tra i giovani.

Max baut auf dem Bauteppich. Luisa und Sarah kochen in der Puppenküche. Fritz spielt mit Philipp Autorennen. Genau dieses freie Spielen ist wertvoll und unverzichtbar, um Kindern ihre Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten zu lassen. Dieser Ratgeber richtet den Blick auf die Entwicklungsimpulse, die Kinder vor allem im freien Spiel zeigen. Anstatt Kinder zu beobachten, sind die Erwachsenen dazu eingeladen, diese Impulse wohlwollend und aktiv aufzugreifen, damit sich Kinder aus eigener Kraft weiterentwickeln.

Der Tischvers, die Geburtstagskrone, das Abschiedslied, der Adventskalender, der Morgenkreis, das Aufräumspiel, die Gute-Nacht-Geschichte... Das Leben mit Kita-Kindern steckt voller Rituale. Doch ist es nicht langsam mal zu viel des Guten? Nein. Denn Kinder brauchen Rituale. Rituale vermitteln Orientierung und Sicherheit, schenken Geborgenheit, geben dem Tag eine Struktur und vermitteln einen Zeitbegriff, indem sie Tagesphasen begleiten, einläuten oder beenden.

Kinder ermutigen und bestärken Das Wichtigste zu Anerkennung statt Lob im Umgang mit Kita-Kindern Ganz praktisch und auf den Punkt Zahlreiche Beispiele & Tipps Für Erzieherinnen, Eltern und Tagespflegepersonen "Prima!", "Super!", "Spitze!" - die Aktivitäten von Kindern werden heutzutage von fast allen Erwachsenen, ob Pädagogen oder Eltern, mit lobenden Kommentaren bedacht. Die meisten Eltern glauben, dass ihre Kinder ohne Lob nicht motiviert sind.

Die erfahrene Hypnotherapeutin Dr. med. Beate Blumrich führt Schritt für Schritt durch grundlegende Vorgehensweisen und viele fundierte Selbsthypnose-Übungsanleitungen, um mit den inneren Ressourcen in Kontakt zu treten und diese als wertvolle Lösungswerkzeuge zu nutzen. Theoretische Grundlagen vermitteln das nötige Basiswissen, viele Praxisbeispiele zeigen die Heilungschancen.