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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller Publisher Comments Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Ph.D. and Michael Thompson Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. Publisher Comments In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson Publisher Comments Friends broaden our childrens horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Neurons To Neighborhoods : the Science of Early Childhood Development (00 Edition) by Jack P. (ed.) Shonkoff Publisher Comments How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level of "expertise." The debate has intensified as discoveries about our development-in the womb and in the... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children (Library of Contemporary Thought) by Jonathan Kellerman Publisher Comments discusses the legal and psychological ramifications of treating such children as adult criminals. He explores the "nature v. nurture" theory and tackles, with surprising results, the popular idea that violence in the media is to blame. Kellerman then... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Too Scared To Cry: How Trauma Affects Children and Ultimately Us All by Lenore Terr Publisher Comments In 1976 twenty–six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terrs landmark study on the effect of trauma on... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy by Rachel Simmons Publisher Comments "I know I can't erase the searing loneliness of being an odd girl out. Yet I hope this book will give girls a sense of community, an opportunity to share strategies and solace, and most of all, the knowledge that even the worst kind of heartbreak... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--And Endangered by Maia Szalavitz Publisher Comments Uncover the startling importance of empathy From birth, when babies' fingers instinctively cling to those of adults, their bodies and brains seek an intimate connection—a bond made possible by empathy, the remarkable ability to love and to share... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and by Bruce Perry Publisher Comments Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Here he tells their stories of trauma and transformation.... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Gift of ADHD: How to Transform Your Child's Problems Into Strengths by Lara Hobbs Webb Publisher Comments As a parent, you already know that your child has many gifts. What you may not know is that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related symptoms-the very qualities that lead him or her to act out and distract others-may be among them. This... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Inscapes of the child's world :Jungian counseling in schools and clinics by John Allan Publisher Comments Takes a Jungian perspective on the use of art therapy with emotionally disturbed children.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher Review "Serious and thoughtful material presented with the fluidity of good fiction — sure to appeal to parents, teachers, and anyone interested in modern American culture." Kirkus Reviews... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Child Behavior by Frances L. Ilg and Louise Bates Ames and Sidney Baker Publisher Comments < P> The long-awaited revision of the bestselling and definitive child care manual from the internationally renowned Gesell Institute of Human Behavior.< /P> < P> < CENTER> < B> Child Behavior< /B> < /CENTER> <... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Families and Family Therapy by Salvador Minuchin Publisher Comments No other book in the field today so fully combines vivid clinical examples, specific details of technique, and mature perspectives on both effectively functioning families and those seeking therapy. The views and strategies of a master clinician are... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Family Therapy Techniques by Salvador Minuchin Publisher Comments A master of family therapy, Salvador Minuchin, traces for the first time the minute operations of day-to-day practice. Dr. Minuchin has achieved renown for his theoretical breakthroughs and his success at treatment. Now he explains in close detail those... (read more) List Price $54.50 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia by Adolescent Mental He Publisher Comments During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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For Your Own Good 3RD Edition by Alice Miller Publisher Comments For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments The New York Times This meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is required to survive, let alone escape. Kotlowitz's story informs the heart. San Francisco Chronicle Amid the darkness and ever-present despair,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families by Mary Pipher Publisher Comments In The Shelter of Each Other, Mary Pipher does for the American family what she did for adolescent girls and their parents in her bestselling book Reviving Ophelia: she opens our eyes wide to the desperate realities we are facing and shows us a way out... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Children in Changing Families (Understanding Children's Worlds) by Jan Pryor Publisher Comments At time when separation and divorce are increasingly common, this book supplies much-needed insights into why some children survive change in families better than others.... (read more) List Price $51.75 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper
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