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The Administrative Challenges of (Play) Therapy brings together essays by eight therapists who tell the stories their career paths in the fields of social work and psychology, specializing in children and family therapy. Each author comments on issues such as professional expenses, referrals, case load, the "Play Room", and administrative responsibilities. They provide insight into their work as clinicians and administrators in private practice, in-home,...
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When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers. In this edited volume, nine experts on play show how play transactions are an important dynamic of play across cultures, age groups, even species. A rich array of play contexts is evident across the nine chapters, encompassing varied continents, age groups, and sorts of players. The play processes of giant pandas, of home-visiting...
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En el marco de los desafíos que enfrenta la Argentina en términos de construcción de un sistema de protección integral para la infancia, el libro reúne un conjunto de trabajos de investigadores de diferentes disciplinas y países de la región en torno a aspectos esenciales al desarrollo de la infancia temprana. Se estima que los aportes aquí reunidos pueden contribuir a una mejor definición del fenómeno y orientar acciones en la construcción...
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Summary of The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson | Includes Analysis Preview: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson offers recommendations for a whole-brain approach to parenting. This approach emphasizes the importance of integrating the four quadrants of a child's brain, whether in challenging or joyous moments. Geared toward the brain development of children from birth to age 12, the whole-brain...
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Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of “Play & Culture Studies” focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long-waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the relations between the play and curriculum from early...
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The integration of animals into the therapy setting by psychotherapists has been a growing trend. Psychological problems treated include emotional and behavioral problems, attachment issues, trauma, and developmental disorders. An influential 1970s survey suggests that over 20 percent of therapists in the psychotherapy division of the American Psychological Association incorporated animals into their treatment in some fashion. Anecdotal evidence suggests...
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Comment déceler la maltraitance en milieu scolaire?
Toute personne appelée par son activité professionnelle à s''occuper d''enfants porte une responsabilité personnelle à l''égard de la prévention et de la détection de la maltraitance.
Pour les enfants en âge scolaire, l''école reste le principal lieu o des inquiétudes concernant le bien-être de l''enfant sont exprimées. Les enseignants sont en première ligne et souvent extrêmement...
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The issue of Child Sexual Exploitation is firmly in the public spotlight internationally and in the UK, but just how well is it understood? To date, many CSE-related services have been developed in reaction to high profile cases rather than being designed more strategically. This much needed book breaks new ground by considering how psychosocial studies, feminist and geo-environmental theories, amongst others, can improve practice understanding and...
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El establecimiento del vínculo entre psicoanálisis y adolescencia ha tenido una evolución lenta; durante el siglo xx la adolescencia se delimita progresivamente como objeto de estudio independiente para el psicoanálisis, a medida que algunos analistas encuentran las especificidades intrapsíquicas que la diferencian de la infancia y que impiden reducirla a los efectos inmediatos de los cambios fisiológicos de la pubertad o al resultado de influencias...
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The college years are very stressful for many people, so it comes as little surprise that college-aged youth often suffer from diagnosable psychiatric disorders. Even among college students whose distress is not clinically diagnosable, the college years are fraught with developmental challenges that can trigger bouts of psychological suffering. Is it any wonder, then, that suicide is the second leading cause of death in this age group? In Mindfulness...
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Summary of American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales | Includes Analysis Preview: American Girls, by journalist Nancy Jo Sales, is the result of a two-and-a-half-year investigation into how social media is shaping the development of girls in America today and, by extension, what this means for fostering self-esteem and self-respect. Sales interviewed more than 200 subjects, girls ranging from 13 to 19 years old, querying them on the new social norms that have...
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Understanding and Addressing Girls' Aggressive Behaviour Problems reflects a major shift in understanding children's aggressive-behaviour problems. Researchers used to study what went wrong with a troubled child and needed to be fixed; we now aim to understand what is going wrong in children's relationships that might create, exacerbate, and maintain aggressive-behaviour problems in childhood and adolescence. In this volume, leading researchers in...
13) La prise en charge des troubles du comportement du jeune enfant: Manuel à l'usage des praticiens
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Cet ouvrage s'adresse à tous les praticiens qui rencontrent des enfants agités, impulsifs, agressifs, opposants, provocateurs ou désobéissants.
Fruit d'une recherche d'une dizaine d'années menée auprès d'enfants dits « difficiles » et de leurs parents, cet ouvrage vise à fournir aux praticiens des outils thérapeutiques utiles dans la prise en charge de leurs patients ainsi que quelques clés de compréhension indispensables.
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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully, selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection, we have, compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subject of graphology. The titles in this range include "Graphology and Character" "Graphology and Signatures" "Graphology and Criminology" and many...
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From time to time in the field of healthcare, an exciting new development emerges to challenge and potentially transform thinking and behaviour. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and its framework is undoubtedly one of these transformative resources and is increasingly widely used in the field of childhood disability.
This accessible handbook introduces the ICF to professionals working with children with...
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Praise for College Ready
"A book that needed to be written; the whole family needs support for a successful transition to college. Let the national experts on parent and family engagement in higher education guide your family's transition."-Jodi Dworkin Ph.D., Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota
"The transition to college isn't just about your student. This step-by-step guide offers tips for a successful first year for...
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"Portrays a deeply troubled family struggling to survive amidst terrifying abuse . . . a page-turner, as engrossing as any of Conroy's novels." -Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., University of South Carolina
A New York Times–bestselling author of eleven novels and memoirs, Pat Conroy is one of America's most beloved storytellers and a writer as synonymous with the South Carolina lowcountry as pluff mud or the Palmetto tree. As Conroy's writings have...
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Congratulations! You are have expecting a wonderful new bundle of joy to treasure and love. That's nice. Flash forward and we feel your pain. The Pregnancy's Little Book of Headaches pokes gentle fun at the crazy, bumbling nine months of pregnancy. What you once loved (food, your husband) now smells utterly revolting. Your hands go numb. This can happen if you've suffered carpal tunnel before when your arms and fingers become swollen (you've noticed...
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Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it's a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Aishah...
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Raise the coolest nerd the world has ever known! Once upon a time, you were a nerdy child, and now that you're a parent, let's make sure your kid can be a nerdy child too! In a world filled with superheroes, wizards, spaceships, and magical telephone booths, everyone should be part of a fandom, and you can never start too early. This is for the parents who want to share their fantastical interest with their children in hopes that they too will grow...
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