Introducing Child Psychology

Introducing Child Psychology
Author: H. Rudolph Schaffer
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2003-10-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780631216278

Introducing Child Psychology is for all those who want to find out what psychology can tell us about the nature and development of children. A non-technical introduction for all those who want to find out what psychology can tell us about the nature and development of children. Presents the major topics of child development investigated by psychologists. Pays particular attention to the most recent research findings. Consistently relates psychological knowledge to practical situations, showing what psychology has to offer in real life situations involving children. Learning is supported by study boxes, summaries, definitions and suggestions for further reading.

Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology
Author: Robert Weis
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 1646
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1506339786

Robert Weis' third edition of Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology adopts a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding child disorders. Using case studies, this perspective examines the emergence of disorders over time, pays special attention to risk and protective factors that influence developmental processes and trajectories, and examines child psychopathology in the context of normal development. Designed to be flexible via its focused modular organization, the text reflects the latest changes to the DSM (DSM 5, 2013) and is updated with new research and developments in the field.

Child Psychotherapy

Child Psychotherapy
Author: Robbie Adler-Tapia, PhD
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826106730

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Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents

Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents
Author: John R. Weisz
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-01-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462543936

Presenting a fresh approach to child and adolescent therapy, this book identifies five principles at the heart of the most potent evidence-based treatments--and shows how to apply them. Clinicians learn efficient, engaging ways to teach the skills of Feeling Calm, Increasing Motivation, Repairing Thoughts, Solving Problems, and Trying the Opposite (FIRST) to 5- to 15-year-olds and their parents. FIRST principles can be used flexibly and strategically in treatment of problems including anxiety, posttraumatic stress, depression, and misconduct. In a convenient large-size format, the book features 37 reproducible parent handouts, decision trees, and other clinical tools. Purchasers get access to a companion website where they can download and print these materials, plus Spanish-language versions of selected parent handouts.

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development
Author: Dee C. Ray
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317572238

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development gives therapists and counselors the basics they need to understand their clients in the context of development and to explain development to parents. The chapters take the reader through the various physical, social, and identity developments occurring at each age, explaining how each stage of development is closely linked to mental health and how that is revealed in therapy. This ideal guide for students, as well as early and experienced professionals, will also give readers the tools to communicate successfully with the child’s guardians or teachers, including easy-to-read handouts that detail what kind of behaviors are not cause for concern and which behaviors mean it’s time to seek help. As an aid to practitioners, this book matches developmental ages with appropriate, evidence-based mental health interventions.

Straight Talk about Psychological Testing for Kids

Straight Talk about Psychological Testing for Kids
Author: Ellen Braaten
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2003-11-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781572307872

Braaten and Felopulos describe how the evaluation process occurs in children, including the role (if any) that testing plays in diagnosing and devising treatment plans for dyslexia, ADHD, math and reading disorders, autism and Asperger syndrome, depression, anxiety, and other conditions.

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology
Author: Rita Wicks-Nelson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2015-08-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317351355

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology with DSM-5 Updates, 8/e presents students with a comprehensive, research-based introduction to understanding child and adolescent psychopathology. The authors provide a logically formatted and easy to understand text that covers the central issues and theoretical and methodological foundations of childhood behavior disorders. Rich with illustrations and examples, this text highlights the newest areas of research and clinical work, stressing supported treatments and the prevention of behavior problems of youth.

Early Childhood Assessment in School and Clinical Child Psychology

Early Childhood Assessment in School and Clinical Child Psychology
Author: Adrienne Garro
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 149396349X

This book presents an integrated and coordinated framework for assessing developmental, psychological, and behavioral disorders in early childhood. Expert contributors advocate for natural-environment methods in addition to standardized measures in assessing academic and social skills as well as age-specific behavior problems in young children. Chapters model collaborations between clinicians, family, and daycare and school personnel, address diagnostic and classification issues, and conceptualize assessment as flexible, ongoing, and, as necessary, leading to coordinated services. The book gives practitioners and researchers critical tools toward establishing best practices in an increasingly complex and important area, leading to better prevention and intervention outcomes. Included in the coverage: Standardized assessment of cognitive development. Authentic and performance-based assessment. The use of Response to Interve ntion (RTI) in early childhood. Collaboration in school and child care settings. Anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, and depression in young children. Sleeping, feeding/eating, and attachment problems in early childhood. Early Childhood Assessment in School and Clinical Child Psychology is an essential resource for clinicians and related professionals, researchers, and graduate students in child and school psychology; assessment, testing, and evaluation; occupational therapy; family studies, educational psychology; and speech pathology.

Children's Dreams

Children's Dreams
Author: C. G. Jung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2012-01-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1400843081

In the 1930s C. G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his findings in a four-year seminar series at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Children's Dreams marks their first publication in English, and fills a critical gap in Jung's collected works. Here we witness Jung the clinician more vividly than ever before--and he is witty, impatient, sometimes authoritarian, always wise and intellectually daring, but also a teacher who, though brilliant, could be vulnerable, uncertain, and humbled by life's great mysteries. These seminars represent the most penetrating account of Jung's insights into children's dreams and the psychology of childhood. At the same time they offer the best example of group supervision by Jung, presenting his most detailed and thorough exposition of Jungian dream analysis and providing a picture of how he taught others to interpret dreams. Presented here in an inspired English translation commissioned by the Philemon Foundation, these seminars reveal Jung as an impassioned educator in dialogue with his students and developing the practice of analytical psychology. An invaluable document of perhaps the most important psychologist of the twentieth century at work, this splendid volume is the fullest representation of Jung's views on the interpretation of children's dreams, and signals a new wave in the publication of Jung's collected works as well as a renaissance in contemporary Jung studies.

The Oxford Handbook of Child Psychological Assessment

The Oxford Handbook of Child Psychological Assessment
Author: Donald H. Saklofske
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 885
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0199796300

This handbook surveys clinical and educational considerations related to the foundations, models, special topics, and practice of psychological assessment.