The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask

The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask
Author: Susan Bartell
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1402219156

Praise for the Top 50 Questions Kids Ask "Dr. Susan is highly gifted at helping parents and kids connect from the heart. This book honors our innate wisdom, supports us in nurturing our kids' emotional growth and empowers us to be the parents we were meant to be." --Renee Peterson Trudeau, life balance expert/coach and author of "The Mother's Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life" "The Top 50 Questions Kids Ask is an insightful guide on the issues and concerns every parent and child faces. It's a must- read guide that both moms and dads should keep at their bedside." --Allison O'Connor, Founder and Editor, SingleMindedWomen.com "Finally, a book that answers all those questions we parents go in a cold sweat about! Dr. Susan tackles the tough ones such as money, shyness, siblings and religion. Plus, we get the psychology behind it all to better understand our kids. You'll find yourself using this book every day." --Pam Atherton, journalist and host of "A Closer Look" radio talk show "Dr. Susan Bartell is the go-to person for all questions kids ask. No one is better qualified or more in touch with this age group to lend her expertise to a book that aids parents in improving communication with their ever-curious children." --Renee Raab Whitcombe, author of "Look Who's Going to be a Big Sister" and "Look Who's Going to be a Big Brother" Are we rich? Why do I have to go to school? Where do babies come from? If you're the parent of a four- to eight-year-old, there's no doubt you've heard them already--and there are countless more to come. Questions! They come in all types: curious, nagging, touching, annoying, and downright weird. What they all have in common is that parents are often at a total loss for how to answer them. Inside you'll find the concrete responses that will make sense to kids, stop the nagging, reduce your frustration, and begin healthy new conversations that will enrich your child's view of the world. You'll learn to talk confidently with your child about the toughest of topics, with advice and support from expert family psychologist Dr. Susan Bartell. Responding to your child's questions can be a remarkable parenting opportunity--if you just know the right words to say.

Ages and Stages Questionnaires, Social-Emotional

Ages and Stages Questionnaires, Social-Emotional
Author: Jane Squires
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Child development
ISBN: 9781557665324

ASQ: SE(TM) components include - 8 questionnaires and corresponding scoring sheets. Parents complete the short, simple questionnaires at all or some of the 8 age intervals. Set up like ASQ(TM), these questionnaires--available in English or Spanish--prompt parents to answer 22-36 questions with most of the time, sometimes, and rarely or never. Each questionnaire takes 10-15 minutes for parents to complete and addresses the seven behavioral areas listed above. For every questionnaire, there's also a photocopiable form that allows professionals to score the test in minutes and determine the child's progress in that area. - The ASQ: SE(TM) User's Guide. Clear and comprehensive, the User's Guide walks professionals step-by-step through the process of implementing ASQ: SE(TM). It provides detailed technical data; instructions on administering the questionnaires with sensitivity to children's environmental, cultural, and developmental differences; helpful case examples; and creative activities and lists of social-emotional behaviors professionals can share with parents for use with each age group. Spanish translations of letters to parents and selected forms are also included.

Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport

Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport
Author: Gavin Breslin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351375695

Mental health within elite sport has traditionally been ignored, but recent research has shown that competitive sport can at times seriously undermine mental health and that athletes are exposed to specific stressors that hinder their mental health optimisation. Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport provides an indispensable guide for researchers and practitioners wanting to understand and implement sport-based intervention processes. This important book adopts an evidenced based approach, discussing the context of the intervention, its design and implementation, and its evaluation and legacy. With cases on depression, eating disorders, and athletic burnout, the book is designed to provide practitioners, policy makers and researchers with a cutting-edge overview of the key issues involved in this burgeoning area, while also including cases on how sport itself has been used as a method to improve mental health. Written for newcomers and established practitioners alike, the text is an essential read for researchers and practitioners in better understanding the sport setting-based intervention processes through presenting current research, theory and practice, applicable in a variety of sports settings and contexts.

Evidence-Based Assessment Tools in ASD

Evidence-Based Assessment Tools in ASD
Author: Kenneth Aitken
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2015-03-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1784501093

This cutting-edge resource provides a comprehensive review of available assessment tools for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), presenting up-to-date evidence for their efficacy as well as best practice for selecting appropriate forms of assessment across the lifespan. Gathering together the latest international research evidence, Kenneth J. Aitken provides a clear evaluation of the commonly used assessment measures, and examines other tools not yet validated for ASD assessment but which are likely to have promising applications for the field. The tools covered include those relating to core assessment areas, such as cognitive ability, communication, motor skills and executive function, as well as supplementary and emerging areas of assessment, such as behaviour and attention, sensory issues, anxiety and depression, friendships and loneliness, and internet safety. This pioneering report will be an indispensable primary reference for researchers, academics, clinicians, service providers and commissioners.

Assessment in Health Psychology

Assessment in Health Psychology
Author: Yael Benyamini
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 161334452X

Assessment in Health Psychology presents and discusses the best and most appropriate assessment methods and instruments for all specific areas that are central for health psychologists. It also describes the conceptual and methodological bases for assessment in health psychology, as well the most important current issues and recent progress in methods. A unique feature of this book, which brings together leading authorities on health psychology assessment, is its emphasis on the bidirectional link between theory and practice. Assessment in Health Psychology is addressed to masters and doctoral students in health psychology, to all those who teach health psychology, to researchers from other disciplines, including clinical psychology, health promotion, and public health, as well as to health policy makers and other healthcare practitioners. This latest volume in the series Psychological Assessment – Science and Practice provides a thorough and authoritative record of the best available assessment tools and methods in health psychology, making it an invaluable resource both for students and academics as well as for practitioners in their daily work.

Health and Resilience

Health and Resilience
Author: Tadeusz Marian Ostrowski
Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2015-09-21
Genre: Health
ISBN: 832338956X

The monograph Health and resilience is a collection of papers providing the reader with an opportunity to look at the issue of mental health and resilience from various perspectives. It examines numerous concepts of resilience as related to patterns of adaptation in adverse contexts. Resilience accordingly can be conceived as good adaptation, effective coping or well-being attained despite of adversities. As referring to a class of complex phenomena, resilience is not only a basic category for developmental psychopathology and positive psychology, but also applies to developmental, educational, family and health psychology as well as to psychoneuroimmunology. The chapters of the book address the issue of resilience from either the nomothetic or the idiographic perspective. The monograph discusses theoretical models of resilience, investigates mechanisms and processes connected with health and resilience, scrutinizes various aspects of the latter (such as risk and protective factors or internal and external resources) and provides examples of support in difficult life circumstances. The monograph Health and resilience adresses a very important and still neglected in Poland, issue of the relationship between psychological resilience and health. This issue is the subject of interest to a variety of scientific disciplines, including psychology. The very concept of resilience, however, is still variously understood and there is no common position in this regard. It is also in the context of this fact that the present monograph seems to be important. (...) The monograph may be directed at a wide audience interested in health-related issues, primarily at psychologists, both researchers and practitioners. It can also provide a valuable source of information for pedagogues, sociologists, philosophers, physicians, and other medical professions' representatives. From the review of Professor Nina Oginska-Bulik, Ph.D., Institute of Psychology, University of Lodz