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Mass Trauma and Violence: Helping Families and Children Cope (Social Work Practice with Children and Families) by Nancy Boyd Webb Publisher Comments This book describes a range of effective ways to help children and families cope with major traumatic experiences such as community violence, war, and terrorist attacks. Detailed case examples bring to life the complexities of assessment and intervention... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by Ernest L Abel Publisher Comments Recognition of the relationship between alcohol abuse and adverse prenatal outcomes is reflected in the warning labels on every alcoholic beverage sold in the United States. Because alcohol abuse has serious consequences for both individuals and society... (read more) List Price $139.95 Your price $95.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Severe Stress & Mental Disturbance in Children by Cynthia R Pfeffer Publisher Comments Severe Stress and Mental Disturbance in Children uniquely blends current research and clinical data on the effects of severe stress on children. Each chapter is written by international experts in their fields. Stressful events occur throughout the life... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $71.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Company They Keep: Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence (Cambridge Studies in Social & Emotional Development) by William M Bukowski Publisher Comments Friendship is one of life's most essential and rewarding forms of interaction--a feature of every culture that most persons experience daily. While most research efforts on friendship have concentrated on such issues as peer acceptance and dyadic... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory by Richard H Mikesell Publisher Comments Integrating Family Therapy brings together family psychology and systems thinking to explore the ways systems therapists actually think and behave to bring about needed family change in the context of other systems.... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nat of Child PB by Jerome Kagan Publisher Comments The world-famous Harvard psychologist challenges many of psychology’s most deeply held assumptions about human development—arguing, for example, that early experience does not inexorably shape our lives and that the influence of the family is... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing with Multiple Intelligence by Edna Kovacs Synopsis A creative writing manual that draws on recent research into multiple intelligences, including Body/Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical/Mathematical, Musical/Rhythmic, Naturalist, Verbal/Linguistic, and Visual/Spatial. Besides providing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Helping the Child Who Doesn't Fit in by Stephen Nowicki Publisher Comments Clinical psychologists Nowicki and Duke show parents and teachers how to simply assess the extent of a child's dyssemia, provide exercises for correcting their problems, and offer guidance for seeking professional assistance.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Play Diagnosis & Assessment 2ND Edition by Karen Gitlin Weiner Publisher Comments This new edition of the classic guide in the field arms clinicians with proven, empirically-validated, play therapy tools and techniques for identifying children's problems. The authors describe new testing instruments designed for time-limited therapy... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $60.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Child Psychology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   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 $10.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mad House: Growing Up in the Shadow of Mentally Ill Siblings by Clea Simon Publisher Comments "A lucid and engaging account of growing up sane in the midst of madness". -- Lauren Slater, author of Welcome to My Country In classic books such as Girl, Interrupted and When Rabbit Howls, the mentally ill depict their own harrowing worlds. In Mad... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss by Claudia Jewett Jarratt Publisher Comments A death, a long-term illness, a divorce, or even a family move is an occasion of despair and grief for a child. Jarratt explains how an adult can provide the necessary support for helping a child cope. Includes Jarratt's new insights into loss-induced... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Works for Whom?: A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents by Peter Fonagy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-511) and index.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Play Therapy Theory and Practice: A Comparative Presentation by Kevin Oconnor Publisher Comments Theory and Practice <P>Jason is seven years old and in the second grade. He does well in school and interacts well with other children, although he prefers playing with children who are slightly younger than he is. Jason's parents have been... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Divergent Realities: The Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, & Adolescents by Reed Larson About the Author Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi is professor of psychology and education at the University of Chicago. He is the author of a number of books, including the bestselling Flow, The Evolving Self, Creativity, and Being Adolescent.Reed Larson is assistant professor... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.78 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What It Takes To Pull Me Through by Dave Marcus Publisher Comments The author reveals the intense, dramatic process that sets teens in crisis back on the right path at the Academy at Swift River, a school known for combining intensive academics, wilderness survival and group therapy. He charts a path to hope that any... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Like Color to the Blind: Soul Searching & Soul Finding by Donna Williams Synopsis Autistic author Donna Williams never knew what it was to feel her hand and her leg at the same time let alone experience herself and other person within one moment of processing. Nor did she know the difference between real felt communication and the... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism by Dawn Prince Hughes Publisher Comments "This is a book about autism. Specifically, it is about my autism, which is both like and unlike other people's autism. But just as much, it is a story about how I emerged from the darkness of it into the beauty of it." In this elegant and thought... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Attachment, Trauma, and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families by Terry M Levy Publisher Comments Attachment is the deep and enduring connection established between a child and caregiver in the first few years of life. It profoundly influences every component of the mind, body, emotions, relationships, and values. Disrupted attachment not only leads... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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