Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

While the psychodynamic understanding of play and play's therapeutic potential was long restricted to the realm of children, Winnicott's work demonstrated the profound significance of the capacity to play for healthy mental functioning during adult life.

Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work.

Attachment Parenting describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal development of attachment between parent and child.

This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other's lives, and on how their internalized influence can be recognized and dealt with in the clinical setting.

Hostile, destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and create serious problems for society.

In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special consideration to problems arising in different contexts around the world and through expert views supported by empirical evidence and considering clinical implications.

Reverence is defined as a sense of awe or profound respect for the person.

'This is an extraordinary and exciting book, the work of a truly original and creative psychoanalytic theoretician and most astute clinician.

Research has shown that a child's social and academic success can be greatly influenced by experiences from infancy and toddlerhood.

This edited collection by David A.

Paradox for Life Review explains how older adults' levels of self-esteem become the lens through which they review their reminiscences.

Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in their earliest attachments.

Clinicians working with traumatized youth face many challenges in supporting growth and development while addressing the many negative consequences of abuse and neglect.

This is the first therapy book that focuses on clinical work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or lesbian identities).

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr.

Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children.

Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory provides in-depth descriptions of past and present analytic concepts, with accompanying examples of how these theories affect clinical interventions.

In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number.

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play.

This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family therapy as examples and illustrations of their application in professional practice.

The Brain and Educational Connections is based on current studies from neuroscientists and research in the field of psychology and education.

How do we save play in a standard-driven educational environment?

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning.

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 .

On the whim of an idea, a sophomore student, unlike any other sophomore, takes on the might of the academic world with one of the most thought provoking books written on psychology and philosophy.

Embarking on a journey to become a counselor does more than prepare a person for a new and rewarding career.

This book is designed to give students and researchers the confidence to understand, assess, treat, and research test anxiety.

The Association for the Study of Play (TASP) (www.

Reflective Network Therapy describes a remarkably effective school-based treatment method that harnesses small social networks for the good of seriously emotionally disturbed preschoolers or those with autism spectrum disorders.

Theories of human development characteristically include a series of stages through which individuals are expected to pass if they are to achieve wholeness and happiness.

In Primary Love, Dr.

If you're a busy parent looking for fresh, playful ideas to support your toddler's learning and development, look no further!

When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers.

Clinical psychologist Daniel J.

Havard-trained psychologist and Psychology Today parenting expert Carl Pickhardt gives parents an eye-opening lifeline to what to expect on rocky road of middle school, revealing the Four Freedoms that every child must master to become a healthy adult--and how parents can adapt, encourage, and grow themselvesThis book explains to parents how four unfolding drives for freedom sequentially and cumulatively motivate adolescent growth, as this ten to twelve year coming of age passage forever changes the child, the parent in response, and the relationship between them.

We all know that kids say the funniest things, but do we know why?

In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special consideration to problems arising in different contexts around the world and through expert views supported by empirical evidence and considering clinical implications.

This book explores the inheritance of trauma, distress, and healing from one generation of survivors of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence to the next.

Following centuries of debate about "e;nature and nurture"e; the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake.

What is childhood?

Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction According to evolutionary biologists, we are the minders of our genes.

Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction According to evolutionary biologists, we are the minders of our genes.

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world.

One of the most famous writers of all time, George Orwell's life played a huge part in his understanding of the world.

Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood.

The first love in our lives is our mother.

This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and well-being by examining 'animal-assisted' education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions.

This first edition Australian text aligns nursing care principles and practice to the unique requirements of older people.