Family & relationships / Education / Child Development

Sandplay: Therapy with Children and Families

by Lois J. Carey

Lois Carey explores the application of sandplay therapy as she learned it from Dora Kalff, among others, and shares her professional experience in a chapter on equipping the office with miniatures and also with...

YOU: Raising Your Child (Enhanced eBook)

by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz

Now available as an enhanced e-book, YOU: Raising Your Child will include 12 videos that feature Dr. Oz and pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg answering real parents' questions about child-rearing.  They talk...

Raising Children Who Think for Themselves

by Elisa Medhus

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

How to Raise a Brighter Child

by Joan Beck

THE LATEST STUDIES PROVE SOONER IS SMARTER

• How much is a child capable of learning before the age of six?

• What happens to a child's brain during the preschool years when the body is growing so rapidly?

• How...

Dr. Spock's The School Years: The Emotional and Social Development of Children

by Benjamin, M.D. Spock

America's favorite pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Spock has helped two generations of parents raise their kids with his timeless bestseller, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. Now, today's parents can rejoice: a new...

How It Feels to Have a Gay or Lesbian Parent: A Book by Kids for Kids of All Ages

by Judith E. Snow

Sometimes I fantasize about having a magic wand. How awesome it would be to wave it and completely eliminate prejudice, hate, and ignorance. Just imagine what it would be like to live in a world like that.

How...

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

by Lori Holden & Crystal Hass

Open adoption has become more popular in the United States as domestic closed adoptions have become more difficult to arrange, and as restrictions on international adoptions continue to be drawn. The Open-Hearted...

Foundations of Responsive Caregiving: Infants, Toddlers, and Twos

by Jean Barbre

Learn the foundations of responsive caregiving and create and sustain environments that foster young children's growth and development.

Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: The Next Generation of Prevention

by Joseph Zins & Maurice Elias

Bullying and harassment threaten academic achievement and mental health in our schools. Look beyond your work with individual students to address these problems in their larger context!

This book presents enlightening...

Childhood Sexuality: Normal Sexual Behavior and Development

by Theo Sandfort

What is “normal sexual behavior” in a child?Childhood sexuality is an often neglected field in sex research. There is very little literature about what one might call “normal child sexual behavior.”...

Intergenerational Programs: Understanding What We Have Created

by Valerie Kuehne

Intergenerational Programs: Understanding What We Have Created focuses on research efforts to design, improve, and evaluate activities among younger and older individuals while examining how intergenerational...

Vestibular Processing Dysfunction in Children

by Kenneth J Ottenbacher & Margaret A Short Degraft

This collection of chapters is intended to help expand, organize, and enhance understanding of the scientific and clinical relevance of vestibular-related research. Articles present a well-developed body of...

Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families

by M. Carolyn Hilarski

Time-effective intervention and prevention tools for dealing with addiction

Addiction, Assessment, and Treatment with Adolescents, Adults, and Families examines addiction concerns ranging from prevention to relapse,...

The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers: Caring and Its Discontents

by Jerome Beker & Mordecai Arieli

From open and straightforward accounts of residential care workers, The Occupational Experience of Residential Child and Youth Care Workers shows you how care is handled, not how it should be handled. This book...

Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care

by Rowena G. Wilson & Sandra Edmonds Crewe

Kinship care is part tradition and part social welfare policy. Tradition and Policy Perspectives in Kinship Care examines the balance of the two perspectives and presents current practice challenges of formal...

Relocation Issues in Child Custody Cases

by Philip M. Stahl & Leslie M. Drozd

Find out how evaluators, mediators, and judges deal with the issues of relocation in divorced families

In the past, the relocation of a parent or child in custody cases was rarely a problem for divorced families—there...

Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Not Just a North American Phenomenon

by George F Rhoades Jr & Vedat Sar

An international look at the similarities and differences of long-lasting trauma

Trauma and Dissociation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective examines the psychological, sociological, political, economic, and cultural...

At-Risk Children & Youth: Resiliency Explored

by Niall McElwee

What assistance can be provided to disadvantaged youngsters to help them conquer the many challenges they face while growing up? At-Risk Children & Youth: Resiliency Explored analyzes the results from accumulated...

At-Risk Children and Youth: Resiliency Explored

by Niall McElwee

Discover strategies to reinforce the strengths of the youngest members of society

What assistance can be provided to a disadvantaged youngster to help them bounce back to conquer challenges while growing up?...

Rehabilitation Issues Problems and Prospects in Boot Camp

by Brent Benda

Boot camps—what are their effects on criminal behavior?

Public and political support for boot camps as alternative correctional facilities has rarely faltered since their inception decades ago, though their...