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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant (07 Edition) by Daniel Tammet Publisher Comments One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior ... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Emergence: Labeled Autistic by Temple Grandin Publisher Comments Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. An intelligent child with a thirst for knowledge, but unable to properly express herself or control her behaviour, Temple struggled through grade school. Eventually moved from a "normal... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us about Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life by Alison Gopnik Publisher Comments For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Childhood and Society by Erik Erikson Publisher Comments Childhood and Society deals with the relationships between childhood training and cultural accomplishment, analyzing the infantile and the mature, the modern and the archaic elements in human motivation. It was hailed upon its first publication as 'a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir Publisher Comments Revised and expanded seminal work on families, with over a million copies sold in 12 languages. The New Peoplemaking expresses Satir's most evolved thoughts on self-worth, communication, family systems, and the ways in which people relate to one another.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notbohm Publisher Comments Every parent, teacher, social worker, therapist, and physician should have this succinct and informative book in their back pocket. Framed with both humor and compassion, the book defines the top ten characteristics that illuminate the minds and hearts... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 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 children’s 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet Publisher Comments One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence by Robin Karr Morse Publisher Comments Although violent behavior has typically been traced to adolescence, "Ghosts from the Nursery" points to the cradle years as the genesis of this problem.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Play Therapy Primer: In Integration of Theories & Techniques by Kevin John Oconnor Publisher Comments Play is the most popular therapy approach for helping children work through emotionally distressing experiences or overcome behavioral and developmental problems. As children & young ones especially & are unable to think through and discuss their... (read more) List Price $74.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Assessment & Intervention With Children by Ann Vernon Book News Annotation Vernon and Clemente (counselor education, U. of Northern Iowa) address the individual counseling process with children and adolescents exhibiting more normal developmental problems or typical problems in their age group, rather than serious problems... (read more) Your price: $35.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dancing with the Family: A Symbolic-Experiential Approach by Carl Whitaker Synopsis Dancing with the Family presents something of a clinical importance, not to offer an all-encompassing theory of the family therapy. This book emphasize on a dual focus. You will be asked to remain cognizant of the centrality of the person of the... (read more) List Price $69.50 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Spinning Inward by Maureen Murdock Publisher Comments If you have ever wished you could show children and teenagers how to enrich their lives with meditation and visualization, this book will delight you. It presents simple exercises in guided imagery designed to help young people ages three through... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Therapy with Troubled Teenagers: Rewriting Young Lives in Progress by Bob Bertolino Publisher Comments Solution-oriented therapy focuses on eliciting, evoking, and highlighting the strengths of clients, as opposed to their pathology and deficits. Here, Robert Bertolino explains his great success in applying this model to the treatment of adolescents. He... (read more) List Price $94.25 Your price: $34.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Assessing Families and Couples: From Symptom to System by Salvador Minuchin Publisher Comments Overview A step-by-step guide to assessing couples and families, this text offers a clear delineation of the process of family therapy through richly illustrated case material, featuring clients from a diversity of backgrounds. Appealing to... (read more) List Price $60.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's by Tim Page Publisher Comments An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn't know he had Asperger's syndrome until he became a man. In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Therapeutic use of child's play by Charles Schaefer Publisher Comments This volume is the most comprehensive examination of play as a therapeutic technique ever compiled. Composed of more than fifty essays by clinicians of such stature as Erik Erikson, Virginia Axline, Haim Ginott, Melanie Klein, and Anna Freud, the book... (read more) List Price $100.95 Your price: $29.95 Used - Hardcover
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Magic Years (59 Edition) by Selma Fraiberg Publisher Comments To a small child, the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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