Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

This book offers a unique glimpse into the startlingly complex world of acute children's psychiatry through 12 chapters, each inspired by the actual visit of a child in psychiatric crisis to one of the most well-known psychiatric emergency rooms in the nation.

Life can be stressful, especially for teens, and this stress can have negative impacts on both physical and psychological health.

This book offers a head-to-toe look at the health concerns most pertinent to teens and young adults as well as what they can do to safeguard their health.

This book provides teens with an accessible introduction to counseling, psychotherapy, and other related services.

This accessibly written book explores many types of psychotherapy, discussing the history, tenets, advantages, and shortcomings of each.

Countless studies have demonstrated the power of early intervention to permanently alter the course of a child's life.

Ideal for both novices and advanced practitioners, the new edition of Stanley Greenspan's classic guide outlines a practical process for observing and interviewing children -- and organizing and interpreting their unfolding communications.

The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives, requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia.

Originally published in 1972, the aim of Psychology and Visual Aesthetics was to present a study mainly concerned with experimental work on visual aesthetics.

This book takes a hard look at how this ominous reality came to be, how it has worsened in recent years, and why attempts to resolve it often devolve into finger-pointing and polarizing politics.

If any single word in the Christian vocabulary captures our relationship to--and responsibility for--the environment, that word is stewardship.

Born in 1918 into a family of Oregon pioneers, merchants, and businessmen, skinny and shy Craig Hudson always felt he was destined for other things.

Miller's Childrenis a passionate and comprehensive look at the human consequences of the US Supreme Court's decision in the case ofMiller v.

Should society care about Christian morality?

What does it mean, as a person of faith, to maintain and even strengthen one's physical body?

The increasing interest in postcolonial theologies has initiated a vital conversation within and outside the academy in recent decades, turning many "e;standard theologies"e; on their head.

We all say that we care about children.

An interactive, step-by-step journal for making growth mindset a part of every lesson plan, every class, and every dayFrom the authors of the bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach comes an interactive, step-by- step journal that makes growth mindset a part of every lesson plan, every class and every day.

An international cast of theologians come together in this volume to offer essays in tribute to the late Stanley J.

The intention of Trauma Sensitive Theology is to help theologians, professors, clergy, spiritual care givers, and therapists speak well of God and faith without further wounding survivors of trauma.

Symptoms of broken systems are all around us, due to our over-consumptive lifestyles, nearly unfettered capitalism, failure to live peaceably together, and the societal dismissal of nature's limits.

This leading resource is a specifically designed curriculum for family child-care providers.

Have you ever wondered how it would look to live out a Christian sexual ethic amid the varied and confusing sexual messages that are part of modern culture?

We kill.

The nation-state is here to stay.

In Spirit Unleashed, Anne Benvenuti uses analysis of real encounters with wild animals to take us on an intellectual tour of our thinking about animals by way of biological sciences, scientific psychology, philosophy, and theology to show that we have been wrong in our understanding of ourselves amongst other animals.

Myriad works discuss forgiveness, but few address it in the prison context.

Should we allow performance-enhancing substances in competitive athletics?

From Wall Street to Main Street, the moral toxicity in our country is alarming.

While it is readily admitted that we learn in order to do, we are in need of guidance.

Despite its title, this is not a morbid or depressing book, but one that it is hoped will bring encouragement and comfort to all who are experiencing life's difficulties, even to the point of wondering if they wish to continue living.

The Quest for Human Dignity in the Ethics of Pregnancy Termination describes and analyzes the problem of termination of pregnancy, with special attention to its prevalence in Kenya, where more than seven hundred abortions are performed daily on girls between fifteen and seventeen years of age.

The ongoing global financial crisis was not simply the fault of the financial sector.

What theologies are popular and formative of Christian thinking in the present day?

Since its inception in 1968, the brain-death criterion for human death has enjoyed the status of one of the few relatively well-settled issues in bioethics.

Compassion plays a central role in the teachings of all world religions.

The Tragedy of Almightiness encircles the theme of human yearning for omnipotence, as expressed in religion and various ideologies.

An Empowering Book for Parenting Sons and Developing Emotional IntelligenceA nationally recognized parenting expert and spokesperson for fathers, Glennon presents straightforward and well-researched-ways- both to nurture young men and, in turn, to teach them how to be nurturing.

How does Christian faith integrate with capitalism?

Various thinkers have attempted to explain the Earth-altering (even ecocidal) features in modern life.

Consider intense moments when you have been seized by joy or, in different contexts, by anguish for another person, or a cat or dog, or perhaps even for a squirrel or possum struck as it dashed across the road: whether glorious or haunting, these are among the most profound and meaningful moments in our lives.

Why did Jesus have to die?

Is "e;political reconciliation"e; a new tool for peace-building and justice--in peace processes and other complex social reconstruction efforts-after dictatorship or civil wars?

Otherness and Ethics demonstrates how Levinas and Confucius (Kongzi) develop their ideas of otherness and ethics.

Dear to the hearts of many Christians is the land of the Bible, which today is convulsed by strife.

What is the purpose of animals?

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This text captures the profound unacknowledged crisis that is unique to children of first-generation immigrants, by virtue of their being caught in a world of their parents' culture of origin and their social experience in the United States.

Hermeneutical Theology and the Imperative of Public Ethics is a groundbreaking attempt to present constructive missional theology in an integrative and interdisciplinary framework as it provocatively utilizes and contextualizes Reformation theology and hermeneutics concerning ethical theology embedded within the wider horizon of World Christianity.