A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities
ISBN: 9780313328329 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for young people with disabilities and the people who care for and educate them, this unique resource offers both inspiration and advice to help disabled teenagers successfully meet the special social and academic challenges of high school and to find their paths into the future. Compiling a wealth of expertise on a range of issues in high school and all the accompanying major life events, this edited volume offers guidance, support, experience, and encouragement, providing everything from explanation of legal rights to guidance on effective study habits. Through the voices of... Written for young people with disabilities and the people who care for and educate them, this unique resource offers both inspiration and advice to... |
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Prom Night: Youth, Schools and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780415924283 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best shows us that, while the prom is often trivialized, most kids take the prom seriously. The prom is a space where kids work through their understanding of authority, social class, gender norms, and multicultural schooling. Proms are more than just pictures and puffed sleeves--they are a mythic part of youth culture and, for better or worse, will always be a night to remember.
Best shows us that, while the prom is often trivialized, most kids take the prom seriously. The prom is a space where kids work through their understa...
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189,28 zł |
Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Differential Diagnosis, and Treatment
ISBN: 9780415953641 / Angielski / Twarda / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychotic symptoms have traditionally been rationalized and disregarded as products of the child's imagination. There has been a professional reluctance to acknowledge that children could suffer from severe psychotic disorders akin to adult subjects, and that these symptoms merit a comprehensive and systematic evaluation.
Now, the area of child and adolescent psychoses is gaining progressive recognition and interest, and has stimulated a keen interest in the examination and detection of psychotic symptoms for diagnostic, treatment and prognostic purposes of a variety of psychiatric... Psychotic symptoms have traditionally been rationalized and disregarded as products of the child's imagination. There has been a professional reluctan...
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665,24 zł |
Altered Loves: Mothers and Daughters During Adolescence
ISBN: 9780449906316 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are mothers jealous of their developing daughters? Is an early mother-child bond severed during adolescence and never formed again? What does adolescence feel like to a girl? Drawing on detailed interviews with mothers and daughters from Terri Apter's research in Great Britain and America, and from recent psychological studies of family interaction, Altered Loves is a frank, moving, and insightful examination of this crucial time in a woman's life. Apter shows that contrary to the classical view of adolescence as a stage in which daughters reject their mothers, adolescent daughters often...
Are mothers jealous of their developing daughters? Is an early mother-child bond severed during adolescence and never formed again? What does adolesce...
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81,99 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
ISBN: 9780190634841 / Angielski / Twarda / 856 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International in scope and with contributions from the field's most eminent scientists and practitioners, The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology is a state-of-the-science volume providing comprehensive coverage of the psychological problems and disorders of childhood.
International in scope and with contributions from the field's most eminent scientists and practitioners, The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Ad...
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915,27 zł |
Roots of Civic Identity: International Perspectives on Community Service and Activism in Youth
ISBN: 9780521028400 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together an international collection of essays that describes the state of community participation among the world's youth. Authors from around the globe use fresh empirical data to present portraits of contemporary youths constructing their civic identities through such means as community service and political activism. The image of "Generation X" as socially disconnected and apathetic is contradicted by young people's efforts to comprehend the complexities of society and to work toward the realization of social-moral ideals. The findings in this volume contribute to a...
This book brings together an international collection of essays that describes the state of community participation among the world's youth. Authors f...
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179,05 zł |
Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention
ISBN: 9780521598736 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention, top experts provide an overview of important areas in adolescence, ranging from delinquency to depression, addressing such key questions as whether or not problems have multiple causes and what the influences of individual, family and societal factors are in the rise of problems. They also consider to what extent there are similarities or differences in the presentation and cause of these problems in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood and whether there are continuities between life periods. It will be of importance to...
In Psychosocial Disturbances in Young People: Challenges for Prevention, top experts provide an overview of important areas in adolescence, ranging fr...
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158,58 zł |
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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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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77,68 zł |
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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150,82 zł |
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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81,99 zł |
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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138,10 zł |
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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211,72 zł |
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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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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388,91 zł |
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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531,93 zł |
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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791,72 zł |
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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434,91 zł |
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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665,24 zł |
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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537,31 zł |