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Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
ISBN: 9780521786393 / Angielski / Miękka / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conduct disorders are very common conditions and the most frequent reason for clinical referrals to child and adolescent mental health facilities. Aggression and oppositional behavior in youth often becomes persistent, and substantially increases the likelihood of adult problems of criminality, unstable relationships, psychiatric disorder, and harsh parenting. This comprehensive book by leading clinicians and researchers reviews established and emerging aspects of conduct disorder. It highlights the complexity and probable heterogeneity of the condition, including the biological,...
Conduct disorders are very common conditions and the most frequent reason for clinical referrals to child and adolescent mental health facilities. Agg...
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535,26 |
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The Rollercoaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years
ISBN: 9780553066845 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the 20 million parents of 10- to 15-year-olds, The Roller-Coaster Years is a lively guide to mastering the ups and downs of early adolescence. Every parent knows about the terrible twos and the brooding teens, but few have anticipated the wild ride of these magical yet maddening years that can provide all the thrills and chills of a carnival ride.
Now, drawing together the latest information from experts, supported and advised by the National Middle School Association, and with surprising insights from the authors' own surveys of parents, teachers, and the children themselves,... For the 20 million parents of 10- to 15-year-olds, The Roller-Coaster Years is a lively guide to mastering the ups and downs of early adolescen...
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69,36 |
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Theory and Problems of Adolescent Development, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780595255870 / Angielski / Miękka / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theorizing about the nature, control, and implications of adolescent development has been going on for at least 2000 years in Western culture, utilizing observational and essentially irrelevant and indiscriminate measurement research techniques. However, because these investigations were flawed by prejudgment and excessive subjectivity, the findings tended to be disorganized, irrelevant, incredible, non-explanatory and platitudinous. The most scientifically significant conceptual and research approach to adolescent development in my lifetime was made by Muzafer Sherif (Sherif
Theorizing about the nature, control, and implications of adolescent development has been going on for at least 2000 years in Western culture, utilizi...
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Nurturing Resilience in Our Children: Answers to the Most Important Parenting Questions
ISBN: 9780658021107 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD In their critically acclaimed parenting bestseller, Raising Resilient Children, Drs. Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein introduced readers to their breakthrough parenting model for raising resilient, emotionally healthy children capable of confronting life's challenges and bouncing back from setbacks. In this important Q&A follow-up book, Brooks and Goldstein elaborate and expand upon their theory of resilience by supplying reasonable,... TOP CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFER EXPERT INSIGHT AND PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR RAISING STRONG KIDS IN TODAY'S COMPLICATED WORLD In thei... |
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New Gay Teenager
ISBN: 9780674022560 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Ritch Savin-Williams argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers--as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal--may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far from accurate today. The New Gay Teenager gives us a refreshing and frequently controversial introduction to confident, competent, upbeat teenagers with... Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, fi... |
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Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger
ISBN: 9780674747210 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two fourteen-year-old girls, fed up with the "Hooters" shirts worn by their male classmates, design their own rooster logo: "Cocks: Nothing to crow about." Seventeen-year-old April Schuldt, unmarried, pregnant, and cheated out of her election as homecoming queen by squeamish school administrators, disrupts a pep rally with a protest that engages the whole school. Where are spirited girls like these in the popular accounts of teenage girlhood, that supposed wasteland of depression, low self-esteem, and passive victimhood? This book, filled with the voices of teenage girls, corrects... Two fourteen-year-old girls, fed up with the "Hooters" shirts worn by their male classmates, design their own rooster logo: "Cocks: Nothing to crow... |
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Exploring Adolescent Happiness: Commitment, Purpose, and Fulfillment
ISBN: 9780761907305 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the results of a decade of extensive studies with over 2500 adolescents which explored the young people's perceptions of the relationships between happiness, positive experiences and commitment, as mediated by diverse sociocultural factors and personality attributes.
This book examines the results of a decade of extensive studies with over 2500 adolescents which explored the young people's perceptions of the relati...
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651,40 |
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Reducing Adolescent Risk: Toward an Integrated Approach
ISBN: 9780761928362 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Current policies treat adolescent risk behaviours such as teen sex, substance abuse and gambling as separate problems requiring separate solutions, ignoring the overlap of many risk behaviours. Reducing Adolescent Risk seeks to move beyond the fractured approach of preventing one behaviour at a time and suggests more comprehensive prevention strategies. It challenges researchers who study risk behaviours as separate problems to identify what is known about common pathways and influences on adolescent risk behaviour to help build intervention strategies that can reduce more than one risk at a...
Current policies treat adolescent risk behaviours such as teen sex, substance abuse and gambling as separate problems requiring separate solutions, ig...
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411,41 |
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Dialogue of Touch: Developmental Play Therapy
ISBN: 9780765700889 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What the author calls capable touching is the focus for this book. She believes that developmental play therapy builds both the self of the hurt child and his or her appreciation of the nurturing other, thus making way for dialogue between them and - as the dialogue becomes an organizing force for the child's behaving and relating - facilitates healing and maturation. Dr. Brody attempts to incorporate training in developmental play into the body of her book to provide therapists, teachers and other helping professionals with the experience they need to understand and practice capable...
What the author calls capable touching is the focus for this book. She believes that developmental play therapy builds both the self of the hurt child...
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328,15 |
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Narcissistic Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Diagnosis and Treatment
ISBN: 9780765701244 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The treatment of nascissistic problems in children and adolescents is addressed in this book. It concerns children with nascissistic vulnerabilities expressed in feelings of injury, shame and humiliation, with accompanying feelings of powerlessness, helplessness and rage. These children pose unusual challenges by their frequent provocations and enactments, their omnipotent and grandiose fantasies and their defences that aim to control the therapist by keeping him at arm's length.
The treatment of nascissistic problems in children and adolescents is addressed in this book. It concerns children with nascissistic vulnerabilities e...
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Teenage Runaways: Broken Hearts and Bad Attitudes
ISBN: 9780789005502 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teenage Runaways: Broken Hearts and "Bad Attitudes" uncovers the perspectives of actual teenage runaways to help professionals, parents, and youths understand the widespread social problem of "last resort" behavior. You ll learn the real reasons teenagers run away, and you ll hear the anguished voices of the teenage runaways themselves, shattering the myth that only bad kids runaway.Teenage Runaways deflates popular misconceptions that runaways are incorrigible delinquents who want to leave home, that they make impulsive decisions to leave their families, and that they wish to never...
Teenage Runaways: Broken Hearts and "Bad Attitudes" uncovers the perspectives of actual teenage runaways to help professionals, parents, and youths un...
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Basic Concepts in Family Therapy : An Introductory Text, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780789006462 / Angielski / Twarda / 643 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gain confidence and creativity in your family therapy interventions with new, up-to-date research Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Introductory Text, Second Edition, presents twenty-two basic psychological concepts that therapists may use to understand clients and provide successful services to them. Each chapter focuses on a single concept using material from family therapy literature, basic psychological and clinical research studies, and cross-cultural research studies. Basic Concepts in Family Therapy is particularly useful to therapists working in a family context with...
Gain confidence and creativity in your family therapy interventions with new, up-to-date research Basic Concepts in Family Therapy: An Intro...
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Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model
ISBN: 9780789015747 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helton and Smith, both professors of social work at Cleveland State University, present new insights into helping children and adolescents by concentrating on their capabilities and resilience. They describe child-centered and strengths-oriented approaches to intervention with children and youth, and introduce specific strategies for maximizing sel
Helton and Smith, both professors of social work at Cleveland State University, present new insights into helping children and adolescents by concentr...
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Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth: A Strengths and Well-Being Model
ISBN: 9780789015754 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth shows how children's rights have slowly evolved over many years, from children's status as property in the 1600s to the twentieth-century innovations that give a child a specific legal status with a certain amount of freedom and self-determination.
Mental Health Practice with Children and Youth shows how children's rights have slowly evolved over many years, from children's status as property in ...
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Pharmacological Treatment of College Students with Psychological Problems
ISBN: 9780789036780 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get valuable insights into best practices and procedures for treatment Mental health practitioners across the country are increasingly treating students by combining the use of psychotropic medication with psychotherapy. Pharmacological Treatment of College Students with Psychological Problems explores in detail this uncritically accepted exponential expansion of the practice. Leading psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers discuss the crucial questions and problems encountered in this widespread practice, and also present specific and differing models of combined therapy....
Get valuable insights into best practices and procedures for treatment Mental health practitioners across the country are increasingly treat...
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Between Femininities: Ambivalence, Identity, and the Education of Girls
ISBN: 9780791458303 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguing for a recognition of the contradictory and ambivalent identifications that both attract and repel those who live the social category "girl," Marnina Gonick analyzes the discourses and practices defining female sexuality, embodiment, relationship to self and other, material culture, use of social space, and cultural-political agency and power. Based on a school-community project involving collaborative production of a video which tells the stories of several fictional girl characters, Gonick examines the contradictory and textured structure of the discourses available to girls through...
Arguing for a recognition of the contradictory and ambivalent identifications that both attract and repel those who live the social category "girl," M...
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Adolescents and the Media: Medical and Psychological Impact
ISBN: 9780803955004 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violent television programmes and video games, printed tobacco advertisements, television beer commercials and sexually suggestive music videos: how do these and other forms of popular media affect teenagers' thinking, behaviour and health? This volume clearly makes the case that the media play a role in diverse facets of at-risk behaviour and adjustment. The author reviews current research findings on the influences of media on adolescents, how the influences occur, and the short- and long-term effects of exposure. He explores topics critical to mental and physical health including teenage...
Violent television programmes and video games, printed tobacco advertisements, television beer commercials and sexually suggestive music videos: how d...
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The Development and Treatment of Childhood Aggression
ISBN: 9780805803709 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprised of papers and commentaries from the Earlscourt Symposium on Childhood Aggression held in Toronto, Canada, this volume reflects the Earlscourt Child and Family Centre's commitment to linking clinical practice to identifiable research-based interventions which are known to be effective in the prevention and treatment of antisocial behavior in children. The education of human services professionals has typically failed to train individuals to work with specific client populations, providing a generalist approach grounded in theoretical assumptions and professional values rather than...
Comprised of papers and commentaries from the Earlscourt Symposium on Childhood Aggression held in Toronto, Canada, this volume reflects the Earlscour...
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Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems: Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
ISBN: 9780805829563 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes in their course over time is important. In its absence, interventions and health planning in general can be difficult. Understanding which risk and protective factors are relevant to which problem behaviors is also essential for the formulation of theories that constitute the basis of...
Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem beha...
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Adolescent Romantic Relations and Sexual Behavior : Theory, Research, and Practical Implications
ISBN: 9780805838305 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry. This discovery may be related to the overwhelming evidence that adult romantic relationships are failing at alarming rates. Dramatic increases in the rates of divorce, out of wedlock childbirth, and relationship violence lead to questions about the developmental precursors of romantic love and commitment. What's wrong with love and can it be fixed?
This book brings together a diverse group of experts from various disciplines to address a serious... Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry. This d...
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710,17 |