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Book SynopsisFrom the 1950s to the 1980s, the New Zealand government took more than 100,000 children from experiences of strife, neglect, poverty or family violence and placed them under state care in residential facilities. In homes like Epuni and Kingslea, Kohitere and Allendale, the state took over as parent. The state failed. Within institutions, children faced abysmal conditions, limited education and social isolation. They endured physical, sexual and psychological violence, as well as secure cells, knock-out sedatives and electro-convulsive therapy. This book tells the story of 105 New Zealanders who experienced this mass institutionalisation. Informed by thousands of pages of Child Welfare accounts, letters, health reports, legal statements as well as interviews, Stanley tells the children's story: growing up in homes characterised by violence and neglect; removal into the State's 'care' network; daily life in the institutions; violence and punishment; and the legacy of this treatment for victims today. This book contains personal, first-hand accounts, allowing its subjects to speak for themselves.

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Book SynopsisAn original ethnography looking at childhood socialisation in schools and in families, under the Welfare StateTrade Review'This detailed empirical study of how Danish children are brought up, or 'civilised' - whether within families or public institutions - is a major contribution to our understanding of Scandinavian welfare states, a powerful argument for the role of ethnography in comparative policy debates, and a must-read for anyone interested in childhood' -- Richard Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield'Makes a valuable contribution to the anthropological study of childhood' -- Peace NewsTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. On Civilising: A Perspective on Childrearing, Conduct and Distinctions 2. Society’s Children: Institutionalisation and Changing Perceptions of Children and Upbringing 3. Civilising the Youngest: An Ambiguous Endeavour 4. The Not-Yet-Civilised: Negotiating the Kindergarten’s Civilising Project - Karen Fog Olwig 5. Social Children and Good Classes: Moulding Civilised Communities during the First Year of School 6. The Impossible Bilingual Boys: Civilising Efforts and Oppositional Forms in a Multi-Ethnic Class 7. The Decent Citizens: Lessons on Moral Superiority and the Immorality of Wealth in a Class of Privileged Youth 8. The Civilised Family Life: Childrearing in Affluent Families - Dil Bach 9. Civilising Institutions: Cultural Norms and Social Consequences Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisComprehensive coverage of evidence-supported interventions and guidelines for those helping children in early education settings.Table of ContentsContributors Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Importance of Early Childhood Development, Education, and Intervention Vincent C. Alfonso and George J. DuPaul I. ASSESSMENT 1. Assessing and Evaluating Young Children: Developmental Domains and Methods Vincent C. Alfonso, Joseph R. Engler, and Janice C. C. Lepore 2. Considerations and Methods in Assessing Early Learning and Social–Emotional Development in Young Children Robin L. Hojnoski and Kristen N. Missall II. PREPARING FOR SCHOOL: ENSURING ACADEMIC SUCCESS 3. Addressing Socioeconomic Disparities in School Readiness With Preschool Programming and Professional Development Support Karen L. Bierman, Michael Sanders, and Leslie C. Ho 4. Coming of Age: Evidence-Based Early Literacy Teaching Kathleen Roskos and Lisa Lenhart 5. Early Number Knowledge and Skills Gena Nelson and Michèle M. M. Mazzocco 6. Self-Regulation in Young Children: A Skill Set for Lifetime Success Amanda M. Dettmer, Amanda B. Clinton, and Heather A. Mildon 7. The Utility of Play for Later Academic Achievement Darlene DeMarie and Jennifer Bugos 8. Leveraging the Developmental Strengths of Young Children in Context Rebecca Bulotsky-Shearer, Jenna Futterer, Jhonelle Bailey, and Chelsea Morris III. HIGH-QUALITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 9. Principles and Practices That Promote Positive Guidance in Early Childhood George J. DuPaul and Courtney L. Cleminshaw 10. Creating Successful Early Learning Environments Timothy W. Curby 11. Creativity and Creative Potential in Early Childhood Education Pablo P. L. Tinio, Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro, and Baptiste Barbot IV. SPECIAL POPULATIONS 12. Promoting Social Competence in Young Children With Disabilities Tina L. Stanton-Chapman and Eric L. Schmidt 13. Working With Young Children Who Are Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Amber Radzicki, Tammy L. Hughes, Ashley Schoenenberger, Marissa Park, and Yadira Sánchez 14. Working With Young Children Living in Stressful Environments Tammy L. Hughes and Cydney V. Quinn V. ADVOCACY FOR EARLY EDUCATION 15. National Policies and Laws Affecting Children’s Health and Education Tara C. Raines, Celeste M. Malone, L. Morgan Beidleman, and Noelita Bowman Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisLying is a healthy and inevitable part of child development. But when do lies become a problem? In this book, psychologist Victoria Talwar presents practical, science-based strategies to address lying and foster truthfulness in children, from early childhood to the teenage years.Trade ReviewVictoria Talwar is the leading authority on the development of lying and deception in children. I’m a huge fan of her work. The Truth About Lying: Teaching Honesty to Children at Every Age and Stage is especially for parents, but I recommend it to anyone interested in the topic. -- Timothy Levine, PhD, University of Alabama Birmingham, author of Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and DeceptionTalwar is a renowned researcher of children’s deception, and this book will enhance her reputation among scholars and, what’s more important, explain the nuances of lying to a lay audience. It is chock full of evidence-based insights for parents and children. There is nothing quite like it, and both parents and students will benefit immensely from reading it. -- Stephen J. Ceci, PhD, Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and Past President, Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: We Can Teach Honesty to Children I. What You Need to Know About Children’s Lies 1. Keeping Things in Perspective: Adult Behavior 2 How Lying Develops as a Normal Part of Child Development 3. Why People Lie II. Teaching Honesty to Children 4. Stay Calm and Address the Motivation 5. Use Positive Discipline 6. Talk to Children About Honesty 7. Acknowledge and Recognize Honesty 8. Walk the Talk 9. Encourage Open Communication 10. Build a Foundation for Character Development III. The Gray Zone 11. Secrets and Tattles 12. When Lies Are a Symptom of Other Problems Final Thoughts References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisHow the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future successFor decades, parents across America have asked their kids, If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you? The answer is, Duh, yes. Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they're largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story about kids; peers can also affect adult behaviorthey affect what we do and who we are well into old age. Noted sociologists Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin call this the peer effect. In their book, they take readers on a tour of how our peers, and the peer cultures they create, shape our behavior in schools and the workplace. Ali and Chin begin their look at the peer effect at the high school from which they both graduated: New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, arguably the best public high school in the Trade Review"The Peer Effect offers persuasive and refreshing perspectives on some of the toughest cultural conversations today—from school demographics to diversity initiatives in corporate America, racism in law enforcement to the (who knew?) futility of hands-on parenting. Syed Ali and Margaret Chin combine academic authority with a forthright style that makes them seem like people who’d actually be a joy to have as peers." * Ada Calhoun, New York Times-bestselling author of Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis *"Ali and Chin knock down the myth that parents determine everything for kids and break down how peer pressure is not only about things that affect kids negatively. The Peer Effect helps readers understand segregation, economics, and one of the most valuable lessons of our pandemic era: that how we succeed in the world depends on the reinforcing success of our peers. A must-read for any parent, educator, or former student for understanding, not just schools, but how we can socialize one another into being better people." * Steven W. Thrasher, author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide *"Ali and Chin have written a stunning book on the power of our peers in shaping who we are and how we interact in the world. Challenging the myth that change comes from heroic individuals, willpower, or top-down commands, Ali and Chin argue that peer cultures encouraging positive norms can help fix pressing social problems. The Peer Effect is a rare book—cutting-edge research written with verve, humor, and committed to improving the world." * Victor Ray, author of On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care *"By asserting that peers make all the difference, The Peer Effect introduces a provocative idea into a stale discourse. Surprisingly intuitive, exhaustively researched, and delightfully written, it has profound implications for everyone and every part of life. A must-read for anyone who belongs to anything!" * Lisa Wade, author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus *"With an engaging mix of biography and research expertise, Ali and Chin present strong arguments for the connections between inequality, communities, and individual well-being. Peers matter. This is a really witty and compelling read!" * Prudence L. Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools *"Ali and Chin write with passion about the influence of peers in a variety of domains—education, policing, and the workplace. They bring a wide range of sociological insights and a good dose of humor into this wide-ranging book." * Natasha Warikoo, author of Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools *"The Peer Effect is a refreshingly honest evaluation of political and family dynamics that have driven personal and systemic educational decisions in NYC and around the country. This is a must-read for anyone interested in better understanding the educational landscape." * Akil Bello, Senior Director of Advocacy and Advancement at FairTest *"There's a certain allure to agency—to the idea that we make our own destinies or, in the case of parents and educators, that we can dictate how our kids' lives will turn out. The reality, however, as The Peer Effect, with its propulsive style and its engaging blend of personal anecdotes and research-based evidence makes clear, is that our agency is both created and constrained by the groups to which we belong." * Jessica McCrory Calarco, author of Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School *"Whether you’re an educator, policymaker, or organizational leader, this book will challenge you to account for the social dynamics that shape our lives and transform the places where we learn and work." * Sam M. Intrator, co-author of The Quest for Mastery: Positive Youth Development Through Out-of-School Programs *"This highly convincing and totally readable book gives readers an inside tour of the ups and downs of the U.S. educational system." * Robert Crosnoe, author of Fitting In, Standing Out: Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education *"Authors Ali and Chin take on the issue of school reform and diversity initiatives and weave an argument around how the effect of individual peers has greater influence than top-down structural attempts at change." * Hillary Anger Elfenbein, John K. Wallace, Jr. and Ellen A. Wallace Distinguished Professor, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis *

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Book SynopsisHow popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America “The children are our future” goes the adage, a proclamation that simultaneously declares both anxiety as well as hope about youth as the next generation. In The Digital Is Kid Stuff, Josef Nguyen interrogates this ambivalence within discussions about today’s “digital generation” and the future of creativity, an ambivalence that toggles between the techno-pessimism that warns against the harm to children of too much screen time and a techno-utopianism that foresees these “digital natives” leading the way to innovation, economic growth, increased democratization, and national prosperity. Nguyen engages cultural histories of childhood, youth, and creativity through chapters that are each anchored to a particular digital media object or practice. Nguyen narrates the developmental arc of a future creative laborer: from a young kid playing the island fictions of Minecraft, to an older child learning do-it-yourself skills while reading Make magazine, to a teenager posting selfies on Instagram, to a young adult creative laborer imagining technological innovations using design fiction. Focusing on the constructions and valorizations of creativity, entrepreneurialism, and technological savvy, Nguyen argues that contemporary culture operates to assuage profound anxieties about—and to defuse valid critiques of—both emerging digital technologies and the precarity of employment for “creative laborers” in twenty-first-century neoliberal America. Trade Review"Josef Nguyen offers a compelling, timely examination of how entangled digital media have become with childhood and creative expression. This is an illuminating and useful read for youth and media researchers, educators, and professionals working in informal education that gets beyond binary thinking about the goods or ills of digital media and instead digs into these forms as play and creative practice."—Carly A. Kocurek, author of Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade"The Digital Is Kid Stuff is a brilliantly argued, engagingly written, and insightful unraveling of the discursive tensions between youth, digital media, and the neoliberal logics informing how and why we value young people’s capacity for creativity. Josef Nguyen offers a rich contextualization and analysis of the ideologies that shape how contemporary society imagines young people's position within creative economies."—Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, author of Worried About the Wrong Things: Youth, Risk, and Opportunity in the Digital WorldTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: What We Are to Make of Creative Digital Youth1. Minecraft and the Building Blocks of Creative Individuality2. Make Magazine and the Responsible Risks of DIY Innovation3. Instagram and the Creative Filtering of Authentic Selves4. Design Fiction and the Imagination of Technological FuturesConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen inclusion into the fold of citizenship is conditioned by a social group's conceit to ritual violence, humiliation, and exploitation, what can anti-citizenship offer us? The Promise of Youth Anti-citizenship argues that Black youth and youth of color have been cast as anti-citizens, disenfranchised from the social, political, and economic mainstream of American life. Instead of asking youth to conform to a larger societal structure undergirded by racial capitalism and antiblackness, the volume's contributors propose that the collective practice of anti-citizenship opens up a liberatory space for youth to challenge the social order. The chapters cover an array of topics, including Black youth in the charter school experiment in post-Katrina New Orleans; racial capitalism, the queering of ethnicity, and the 1980s Salvadoran migration to South Central Los Angeles; the notion of decolonizing classrooms through Palestinian liberation narratives; and more. Through a range of methodol

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Book SynopsisThe first one thousand days of human life, or the period between conception and age two, is one of the most pivotal periods of human development. Optimizing nutrition during this time not only prevents childhood malnutrition but also determines future health and potential. The Politics of Potential examines early life interventions in the first one thousand days of life in South Africa, drawing on fieldwork from international conferences, government offices, health-care facilities, and the everyday lives of fifteen women and their families in Cape Town. Michelle Pentecost explores various aspects of a politics of potential, a term that underlines the first one thousand days concept and its effects on clinical care and the lives of childbearing women in South Africa. Why was the First One Thousand Days project so readily adopted by South Africa and many other countries? Pentecost not only explores this question but also discusses the science of intergenerational transmissions of health, disease, and human capital and how this constitutes new forms of intergenerational responsibility. The women who are the target of first one thousdand days interventions are cast as both vulnerable and responsible for the health of future generations, such that, despite its history, intergenerational responsibility in South Africa remains entrenched in powerfully gendered and racialized ways.Trade Review"The Politics of Potential examines a powerful new intervention that seeks to alter the future by tinkering with the present conditions of the unborn. Pentecost provides a riveting and at times dystopian account of how epigenetic interventions layer on to other global health interventions in disadvantaged communities in post-apartheid South Africa. From this laboratory of poverty, will it indeed be possible to finally break the cycle of violence and deprivation into which such communities seem locked?" -- Vinh-Kim Nguyen * author of The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS *"This nuanced ethnography of South Africa’s First 1000 Days program offers brilliant insights about how global health’s long-standing obsession with maternal-child health is being reinvented under new scientific demands for epigenetic modeling and their temporal gymnastics in a place with a particularly fraught history of social injustice. Pentecost troubles the simplistic assessment of intervention success and failure by reminding readers of how recognition of a responsibility toward historic injury unveils the individualizing, situated, and justice-effacing effects of such programs." -- Vincanne Adams * editor of Metrics: What Counts in Global Health *Table of ContentsForeword by Lenore Manderson Introduction 1 The First 1000 Days: Origin Stories 2 Situated Biologies: The View from Khayelitsha 3 The Traveling Technology of Mother and Child 4 Life Between Protocols 5 Intergenerational Transmissions: The Work of Time 6 Ambivalent Kin: On Gender and Violence Conclusion: The Politics of Potential Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNow updated with new material throughout, Alicia F. Lieberman’s The Emotional Life of the Toddler is the, detailed look into the varied and intense emotional life of children aged one to three.Anyone who has followed an active toddler around for a day knows that a child of this age is a whirlwind of explosive, contradictory, and ever-changing emotions. Alicia F. Lieberman offers an in-depth examination of toddlers’ emotional development and illuminates how to optimize this crucial stage so that toddlers can develop into emotionally healthy children and adults. Drawing on her lifelong research, Dr. Lieberman addresses commonly asked questions and issues. Why, for example, is “no” often the favorite response of the toddler? How should parents deal with the anger they might feel when their toddler is being aggressively stubborn? Why does a crying toddler run to his mother for a hug only to push himself vigorously away as soon as she be

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times notable pick, rattled the psychological establishment when it was first published in 1998 by claiming that parents have little impact on their children''s development. In this tenth anniversary edition of The Nurture Assumption, Judith Harris has updated material throughout and provided a fresh introduction.Combining insights from psychology, sociology, anthropology, primatology, and evolutionary biology, she explains how and why the tendency of children to take cues from their peers works to their evolutionary advantage. This electrifying book explodes many of our unquestioned beliefs about children and parents and gives us a radically new view of childhood.

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries that help children feel safe and settled. In short: What looks like misbehavior is actually your children’s signal that they’re feeling lost, that they are trying to find direction and looking to you to guide them back on course.   Payne gives parents heartwarming help and encouragement by combining astute observations with sensitive and often funny stories from his long career as a parent educator and a school and family counselor. In accessible language, he explains the relevance of current brain- and child-development studies to day-to-day parenting. Breaking the continuum of childhood into three stages, Payne says that parents need to play three

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Book SynopsisCommunication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS), yet an Asperger marriage requires communication more than any other relationship. Thousands of people live in Asperger marriages without knowing the answers to important questions such as `What behaviours indicate that my spouse has AS?' `Is it worthwhile to get a diagnosis?' `Is there hope for improvement?'Katrin Bentley has been married for 18 years. Since receiving her husband's diagnosis of AS, their marriage has improved substantially. They learnt to accept each other's different approaches to life and found ways to overcome problems and misunderstandings. Today they are happily married and able to communicate effectively.Alone Together shares the struggle of one couple to rescue their marriage. It is uplifting and humorous, and includes plenty of tips to making an Asperger marriage succeed. This book offers couples hope, encouragement and strategies for their own marriages.Trade ReviewThis book could change your relationship and your life. -- Tony Attwood, author of The Complete Guide to Asperger's SyndromeA really honest and accurate account of what it is like living in a relationship with a man who is affected by Asperger syndrome. There will be something in this book for any one living in such a relationship and it will provide an invaluable guide to professionals who wish to develop their understanding of Asperger relationships. Katrin describes very honestly both the ups and downs of living with her husband Gavin and shows the difference that awareness, understanding and commitment can make towards the success of living with this complex syndrome. -- Maxine Aston, author of Aspergers in Love and The other half of Asperger SyndromeKatrin Bentley has been married for 18 years. Communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by people with Asperger's Syndrome yet Asperger marriages require communication more than any other relationship.Alone Together shares the struggle of one couple to rescue their marriage. Since receiving her husband's diagnosis of AS, their marriage has improved substantially. They learnt to accept each other's different approaches to life, and found ways to overcome problems and misunderstandings. The book includes tips on making an Asperger marriage succeed. -- Autism UsBentley is lively and informative regarding life in an AS (Asperger Syndrome) household and practitioners would gain insight into the realities by reading this book. -- Therapy TodayTable of ContentsForeword by Tony Attwood. Preface. Acknowledgements. The Cactus and the Rose (poem).1. Becoming Aware of Asperger's Syndrome. 2. Meeting the Handsome Stranger. 3. The Wedding. 4. The First Real Argument: I Married you for Fun, Not for Problems. 5. Travelling to Australia: The White Board. 6. The Honeymoon: Rigid Thinking! 7. Sexuality, Intimacy and Love. 8. Making Friends. 9. Starting a Family: Empathy and Theory of Mind. 10. Babies and New Mothers are Unpredictable: Coping with Change. 11. Arguments Need to be Resolved: Being Married to a Non-Communicator. 12. A Family Requires Teamwork. 13. The `Girlfriend'. 14. Dealing with Sickness: Associative Thinking Causes Stress. 15. The Car Accident: Dizzy Spells can be Fatal! 16. Being There in Body but Not in Soul: Alone Together.17. The Energy Theory: My Way of Dealing with Tantrums. 18. Bringing Up Champions: How to Handle Criticism. 19. A Good Day Turns Bad in a Matter of Seconds: How We Fix Arguments. 20. How a Diagnosis Helps: Resources and Opportunities for Improving the Relationship. 21. The Stress Factor: Understanding Each Other. 22. Our Life Today. Epilogue by Gavin Bentley. Useful contacts and Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisPaley introduces a new rule—“You can't say you can't play”—to her kindergarten students and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule. The struggle that ensues presents a great teacher with her greatest challenge and speaks to some of our most deeply held beliefs.Trade ReviewVivian Gussin Paley’s book You Can’t Say You Can’t Play is arresting in its title, magical in its appeal, and inspiring in its message… [It] illustrates how the teacher’s art can attack the evil of exclusion at its childhood root. Now, Mrs. Paley, we need your help in weeding out the pernicious practices that afflict the adults of our exclusionary society. -- Derrick Bell * New York Times Book Review *In instituting the [‘you can’t say you can’t play’] rule, Paley was challenging the assumption that cruelty in childhood is to be expected and that children should fend for themselves when it happens—notions she believes unfairly relieve adults of their duty to intervene. And she rejects the idea that children could benefit from such experiences. -- Theresa Defino * Washington Post *[Paley] is an esteemed kindergarten teacher whose previous writing has been about using children’s stories and fantasies as vehicles for learning. Here she interweaves her private reflections, her conversations with children, and a story she spins, to tell what happened when she instituted a radical new order in her classroom. Her new rule prohibited children from excluding someone who wanted to play. The implications of such a non-exclusion rule are profound; most of the children resisted at first, but with discussion began to adjust their behavior and truly experience the benefits of making no one a stranger. Paley makes a powerful statement in this slim book: to teachers, parents, and society at large. * Booknews *In this brief, ethereal and tender account of social relations among children, Paley…explores how to keep students from being ignored by their classmates. Woven throughout Paley’s lessons is a parable about loneliness and rejection, which enables readers to share a child’s view of the world. What the kids have to say is enchanting and surprisingly wise. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsYou Can't Play: The Habit of Rejection The Inquiry: Is It Fair? Will It Work? The New Order Begins It Is Easier to Open the Door

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Book SynopsisReviews of the first editionâœNot only does the clarity of the authorsâ writing make the book very accessible, but their argument is also illustrated throughout with a broad range of empirical material â undoubtedly a strong contribution to the study of both contemporary youth and âlate-modernâ society.âYouth JusticeâœA very accessible, well-evidenced and important book â It succeeds in raising important questions in a new and powerful way.âJournal of Education and Workâœthe book will be very popular with students and with academicsâ..The clarity of the organization, expression and argument is particularly commendable. I have no doubt that Young People and Social Change will rightly find its way onto the recommended reading lists of many in the field.â Professor Robert MacDonald, University of Teesside A welcome update to one of the most influential and authoritative books on young people in modern societies. With a fuller theoreticalTable of ContentsIntroduction The risk society Change and continuity in education Social change and labour market transitions Changing patterns of dependency Leisure and lifestyles Health risks in late modernity Crime and insecurity Politics and participation The epistemological fallacy of late modernity Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisFirst Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings is a collection of pioneering classics that provide a framework for understanding current work in each of the basic areas of language acquisition: morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Collects classic works that provide the foundation for current research in the field of first language acquisition. Includes selections from Noam Chomsky, Jean Piaget, Eric Lenneberg and Roman Jakobson, as well as others who contributed groundbreaking discoveries, insights, concepts, and methods. Presents framework for understanding current work in each of the basic areas of language acquisition: morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Provides valuable resource for students and scholars of language acquisition, cognitive development, and cognitive science. Trade Review"This volume is undoubtedly an outstanding compilation of classic papers on first language acquisition." The Linguist List "An excellent selection of the classic readings in the science of language development, one that I have dearly missed until now. It is a perfect set of background readings for students and researchers interested in the intellectual roots of the field." Steven Pinker, Harvard University, and author of The Language Instinct and Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language "A well-chosen treasure-house of key readings. They provide a superb grounding for anyone studying child language." Jean Aitchison, University of Oxford "This reader is a great addition to the field, bringing together some of the classic literature that has stimulated debate on the nature of language acquisition for years. Its depth and breadth, in both philosophical and linguistic approaches to the problem, ensure that this volume will soon be a classic itself." Katherine Demuth, Brown University "An excellent collection of classic works, highlighting contributions taking a linguistic approach to the subject of language acquisition." Diane Lillo-Martin, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsIntroduction: Barbara C. Lust (Cornell University) and Claire Foley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Part I: Theory of Language Acquisition:. 1. Selections from Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use: Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2. A Review of B.F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior: Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3. Selections from The Psychology of the Child: Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder. 4. Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky: Massimo Piattelii-Palmarini (editor). 5. Selections from Comparative Linguistics and Language Acquisition: Hermine Sinclair (late of University of Geneva). Part II: The Nature-Nurture Controversies:. Nature: Biology. 6. Selections from The Biological Foundations of Language: Eric H. Lenneberg (late of Harvard University). 7. Language and the Brain: Norman Geschwind. 8. Selections from The Bisected Brain: Michael S. Gazzaniga (Dartmouth College). 9. The Linguistic Development of Genie: Susan Curtiss (UCLA), Victoria Fromkin (late of UCLA), Stephen Krashen (USC), David Rigler, & Marilyn Rigler. Nurture: Role of the Input. 10. Derivational Theory and Order of Acquisition in Child Speech: Roger Brown (late of Harvard University) and Camille Hanlon (Connecticut College). 11. Talking to Children: A Search for Universals: Charles A. Ferguson (late of Stanford University). 12. Learning by Instinct: James L. Gould (Princeton University) & Peter Marler (University of California, Davis). Mechanisms of Development. 13. Selections from Language and Experience: Evidence from the Blind Child: Barbara Landau (Johns Hopkins University) & Lila R. Gleitman (University of Pennsylvania). 14. Selections from Language Learnability and Language Development: Steven Pinker (Harvard University). 15. Selections from Learnability and Cognition: Steven Pinker (Harvard University). 16. Selection from Language Acquisition and Cognitive Development: H. Sinclair-deZwart (late of University of Geneva). 17. Selections from Cognitive Prerequisites for the Development of Grammar: Dan I. Slobin (University of California, Berkeley). Part III: Areas of Language Knowledge:. Morphology. 18. The Child’s Learning of English Morphology: Jean Berko (Gleason) (Boston University). 19. Selections from A First Language: Roger Brown (late of Harvard University). Phonology. Speech Perception. 20. Speech Perception in Infants: Peter D. Eimas (Brown University), Einar R. Siqueland (Brown University), Peter Jusczyk (late of Johns Hopkins University), and James Vigorito. Speech Production. 21. The sound laws of child language and their place in general phonology: Roman Jakobson (late of MIT). 22. Universal Tendencies in the Child’s Acquisition of Phonology: N.V. Smith (University College London). 23. The acquisition of phonemic representation: David Stampe (University of Hawai'i, Manoa). Syntax. 24. Selections from The Problem of Serial Order in Behavior: K.S. Lashley (late of Harvard University). 25. The Study of Adam, Eve, and Sarah: Roger Brown (late of Harvard University). 26. Syntactic Regularities in the Speech of Children: E.S. Klima (University of California, San Diego) and Ursula Bellugi (Salk Institute for Biological Studies). 27. The Reduction Transformation and Constraints on Sentence Length: Lois Bloom (Columbia University). Semantics and Pragmatics. 28. The young word maker: A case study of innovation in the child’s lexicon: Eve V. Clark (Stanford University). 29. Strategies for Communicating: Eve V. Clark (Stanford University). Index

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Book SynopsisThis fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides the full set of tools for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) through drama.Cindy B. Schneider explains how the central processes in acting - including making and interpreting inferences from non-verbal cues, taking another's perspective, and formulating language - can be highly effective ways of addressing social cognition deficits in children with AS. Acting Antics contains a wide repertoire of activities and ideas for immediate application at home, in the classroom, in therapy workshops or social groups, ranging from initial warm up techniques, through paired activities, to larger group scenes and staging a show. Helpful appendices provide questionnaire forms to enable both the child and the program leader to assess and monitor the child's understanding of their roles, along with reproducible scripts and suitable scene designs.This complete, practical program provides a wealth of enjoyable educational ideas for parents, teachers, and therapists of children with Asperger Syndrome.Trade ReviewAs the use of 'kids' and 'teens' in the title might suggest, it is a fun book. It briefly explains how the central processes in acting - including making and interpreting inferences from non-verbal cues, taking another's perspective, and formulating language - can be highly effective ways of addressing social cognition deficits in children with Asperger's syndrome. -- NAPLICThe ideas are excellent and well laid out. This is an innovative approach to social skills training for students with Asperger's Syndrome who will tolerate acting, and for a group leader with energy and commitment to drama. -- Speech and Language Therapy in PracticeSchneider's enthusiasm for the subject and her passion to improve life skills of young people is very evident and encourages the reader to progress. As a catalogue of practical ideas with built-in resources, this is a useful book for support groups and families wishing to create a theatre group. Acting Antics has an easy-to-read format and includes activities that can be initiated with minimum preparation and resources. -- Children Now MagazineIf you're interested in implementing a drama therapy program for tweens and teens with Asperger Syndrome, this is the book to buy. -- About.comTable of ContentsForeword. Preface. 1: Introduction. 2: Who? What? Where? 3: Getting Started. 4: Paired Activities. 5: Scripted Partner and Group Scenes. 6: Whose Line Is It Anyhow? 7: Starting Your Own Troupe. 8: Ready or Not, Here They Come! 9: Antics Summer Camp. 10: The `Really Big Show'. 11: It's a Wrap! Appendices: A. Sample Schedules and Activity Lists. B. Photocopiable Forms. C. Photocopiable Partner Scripts. D. Group Scripts. References. Resources. Indexes.

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Book SynopsisIn Group Filial Therapy (GFT), therapists train parents to conduct play sessions with their own children to help meet children's therapeutic needs, and to transfer appropriate skills to family life. Based on parents' application of Child-Centred Play Therapy, taught and supervised by filial therapists, this evidence-based method is highly effective for working with families from diverse backgrounds and locations. This book provides an accessible guide to the theory and practice of GFT, and for the first time offers step-by-step guidelines for implementing the GFT program developed by Dr Guerney, the co-creator of Filial Therapy. Important practical considerations are addressed by Dr Guerney and Dr Ryan, such as how to determine the composition of groups and the duration of programs, and how to conduct Filial Therapy intakes. The facilitative attitudes and skills needed to be an effective Filial Therapy group leader are also described, and comprehensive instructions for implementing Dr Guerney's 20-week model of GFT are provided. The book closes with examples of how the program may be adapted to meet the needs of special groups. Replete with examples and dialogues bringing to life the group process, this definitive guide will enable therapists already familiar with the method, as well as those wishing to learn it, to maximise the fulfilment of therapeutic goals for participating families. Practitioners in mental health, social services and counselling, as well as parenting experts, play and filial therapists and therapists in training will find that this book expands and enriches the services they can offer their clients.Trade ReviewGroup Filial Therapy is an extraordinary read on so many levels. -- BACP Children & Young PeopleGroup Filial Therapy is truly a masterpiece! Guerney and Ryan have detailed a vast amount of sage and practical information guaranteed to heighten practitioners' effectiveness when working with children and their families. Comprehensive, theoretically-grounded, and empirically supported, Group Filial Therapy is a compelling and pragmatic reference that is a must-read for any clinician, at any experience level, working with children, families, and groups of families. It features Filial Therapy as originally conceived and refined during the past 50 years by its founders, Bernard and Louise Guerney. This much-anticipated work will be a classic in the fields of Filial Therapy, play therapy, child psychotherapy, and family therapy. It is a fabulous gift from the authors, and it deserves to be read cover-to-cover. -- Risë VanFleet, Ph.D., RPT-S, CDBC, President, Family Enhancement & Play Therapy Center and author of Filial Therapy: Strengthening Parent-Child-Relationships Through Play, Pennsylvania, USAFilial therapy, co-developed by Louise Guerney, is the most significant happening in the field of mental health in the past 50 years because this innovative approach has the potential to improve a society. Group Filial Therapy is a long-awaited and much-needed book that provides insight into the dynamics of filial therapy and a practical how-to approach for implementing the intricacies of the process. Mental health professionals will want to return to this book again and again for helpful instruction. -- Dr. Garry L. Landreth, Regents Professor, Counseling and Higher Education Department, University of North TexasI am delighted that a very practical, step-by-step manual for conducting the Guerney model of Group Filial Therapy is now available! Kudos to Drs Louise Guerney and Virginia Ryan for preparing this comprehensive, clearly-written handbook which will serve to both improve the practice and strengthen the research base of Filial Therapy. -- Charles E. Schaefer, Ph.D., RPT-S, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey and Co-founder of the Association for Play Therapy, Fresno, CaliforniaThis book is a must-have for all clinicians who work with families. What a gift as a therapist to be able to assist and empower a parent to help and support their child as well as enhance their parent/child relationship via play. This book breaks down why Group Filial Therapy is advantageous for families, how to set up a parent group that is needs-balanced with the optimal number of children and parents, clinical goals, supervision issues to address, how to create play kits, etc. Essentially, the GFT clinician can use this resource from intake to group closure. Case illustrations connect theory with practice and the book ends with additional resources that the GFT clinician can seek out for further information. This will be the book that all clinicians want in their office. -- Theresa Fraser, CYW, M.A., CPT-S, Trauma and Loss Clinical Specialist and President of the Canadian Association for Child and Play TherapyThe book provides detailed guidance, problem solving and resources on how to set-up and run a GFT group... If you work with families where children are traumatised, have emotional difficulties, conduct disorder, poor family relationships, are adopted/fostered, then filial therapy could provide an intervention which effects change where other parenting programmes may not. -- Ms R. Rayner, Independent Clinical social worker * Professional Social Work *The aim of this book is to provide a complete guide to the theory and practice of Group Filial Therapy (GFT)... this book goes into vast amounts of detail and appears to consider every possible problem which may arise... This book would be useful for educational psychologists who work (or are interested in working) therapeutically with parents or carers of children for whom attachment difficulties, early trauma, serious anxiety or emotional regulation have made other interventions problematic. -- Emma Birch, Trainee EP * Debate - British Psychological Society *Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. An Overview of Filial Therapy and Group Filial Therapy. 2. The Selection of Suitable Participants and the Intake Process for GFT. 3. Guidelines for Conducting Successful GFT Groups. 4. The Main Skills Parents Learn in GFT. 5. Starting the GFT Program: Meeting 1. 6. Starting Play Demonstrations and Skills Learning: Meeting 2. 7. Continuing Demonstrations and Skills Practice: Meeting 3. 8. Continuing Demos and Skills Practice: Meeting 4. 9. Mock Play Sessions and Preparation for Practice Play Sessions: Meeting 5. 10. Beginning Practice Play Sessions: Meeting 6-7. 11. Parents' Second Practice Play Sessions: Meetings 8-10. 12. Transition to Home Play Sessions: Meetings 11-12. 13. Early Home Play Sessions: Meetings 13-15. 14. Generalizing Play Session Skills and Preparation for Ending: Meetings 16-19. 15. Ending the GFT Program: Meeting 20. 16. Applications of the 20 Week GFT Program. References. Appendices 1-21. Index.

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Book SynopsisAlongside the world of everyday reality, the young child develops a rich imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic. This book charts the imaginative development of children, conveying the importance of art-making, pretense play and fantasy in early childhood years, and highlighting the potential that imaginative behaviors hold for cognitive, affective and aesthetic development.Divided into three parts, the book begins by examining the development of child art and how children express themselves through art. Part two looks at make-believe play and suggests ways that these methods of play can be utilized effectively in play therapy. Finally, the author explores children's perceptions of fantasy and fiction as expressed in dreams, story-telling and magic. The Creation of Imaginary Worlds highlights the significance of imaginary worlds in children's lives, their role in fostering creativity and abstract thinking, and how adults can gain valuable insights into children's cognitive and emotional well-being.This enlightening book will be of interest to students of child development, art therapists, play therapists, counselors and child psychologists, as well as parents, teachers and anyone else who wishes to gain a better understanding of childhood imagination.Trade ReviewThis is a perceptive and well researched study of children's art and imaginative play and their relationship to child development. It is scholarly but very readable.The book's first section traces the development of child art from the early stages to adolescence, while the second section charts the evolution of play from infancy onwards... The third section has a useful discussion of dreams, nightmares, storytelling and the emotions, describing the role of imaginative play in confronting fears and exploring emotions.The book is informative and helpful. A rich and well-developed imagination has a lasting effect on the child's sense of self and emotional wellbeing. The study helps parents to understand and to nurture the child's imaginative development; it is enlightening and reassuring. -- HEAS BulletinIn this beautifully written book, Claire Golomb produces an eloquent account of three extraordinarily important practices that constitute an envisaging of children's pursuit and construction of imaginary worlds. Golomb, a noted psychologist and researcher, puts forth a compelling introductory text that works to provide parents, educators, and students of early childhood development with a persuasive and articulate rendering of the unwavering grasp that worldmaking has on young children, and the developmental trajectories, milestones, and slippages that compose the landscapes of their enduring quests for the alternative. Reading this book is like listening to a gifted storyteller; Golomb's seamless writing style moves you in and out of theoretical terrains, but in ways that refrain from the imposing weight and limitations of an overly esoteric writing style. Amidst the rise and fall of Golombs' narrations there is a healthy balance of imagery and transcription that further emphasizes and carries forward the thoughts and problematics that are generated throughout the text. -- International Journal of Education & the ArtsThe appearance of a new book by Claire Golomb is always important to educators, especially those concerned with the developmental dimension of children's art from early infancy through childhood. This highly accessible book is a very good introduction to children's art in many of its forms.''What remains invaluable in this book is the obvious delight the author takes in the art of the child, and the importance, in developmental terms, she attaches to it. Children's art, in all its forms is shown to be a spontaneous outpouring of expression, representation and symbolism (no matter what contemporary curriculum guides tell you its all about), and as such deserve the most attuned and sensitive support. Claire Golomb's book is essential reading. -- John Matthews, University of PlymouthThis book successfully highlights the significance of imaginary world in children's lives and their role in fostering creativity, critical and abstract thinking. This book therefore, provides practitioners with invaluable insight into children's cognitive and emotional wellbeing. -- eye (early years educator)this book provides interesting insight into the way in which childhood art, play, dreams and storytelling are a visual representation of their psychological development and also provide important tools to help them deal with complex emotions. -- Young Minds MagazineTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. Preface. 1. The Evolution of Child Art. Representational art and early models. Child art blossoms. The socio-cultural milieu. 2. Play: A Wellspring of the Imagination. Antecedents and the emergence of pretense behavior. Symbolic play. Make-belief play flourishes. The socio-cultural milieu. Play therapy. The school-age child and beyond. 3. Between Fantasy and Fiction. Dreams. Daydreaming or waking fantasy. Story telling. Fairytales. Magic. Concluding comments. 4. Epilogue. Notes. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe needs of parents and carers of children on the autism spectrum are not met by conventional parenting strategies. This resource for trainers and facilitators offers the best available knowledge and theories to help them develop an understanding of how their child perceives the world and ultimately improve their family life.The manual is divided into ten sessions that introduce a topic related to autism and Asperger Syndrome, for example, 'mindblindness' and the social world, and strategies to manage individual behaviour. During each session parents are introduced to a new topic and are invited to participate in exercises and group discussions that serve to reinforce the key messages discussed earlier. Each session closes with recommended reading and 'homework'.This manual is a valuable resource for professionals working with parents of children and young people with autism and Asperger Syndrome and is an effective complement to How to Live with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, which is referenced throughout the resource.Trade ReviewTen sessions to introduce parents and other carers to the less conventional approaches to parenting strategies needed with children who have autism. -- BILD NewsletterA resource for professional facilitators and trainers working with parents to explain the different parenting strategies needed for children who have ASD. -- Current Awareness ServiceThis resource for trainers describes how to run groups for parents on the autism spectrum. It includes handouts, activities and discussion points. -- Children & Young People NowTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Participants. Session 1. An Introduction to Autism and Mindblindness. Session 2. Getting the gist. Session 3. Language and communication. Session 4. Preoccupations, Sensory Interests and Repetitive Behaviours. Session 5. Imagination, Time Perception, Planning and Memory. Session 6. Managing Behaviour. Session 7. Exploring Individual Problems and Developing Strategies for Managing Behaviour (1). Session 8. Strategies for Managing Behaviour. Session 9.Visual Guides/Social Storiesâ"¢ Workshop. Session 10. Exploring Individual Problems and Developing Strategies (2) and Strategies for Managing Behaviour (2) Session 11. Consolidation, Questions and Party. Appendix 1A. Appendix 1B. Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4. Appendix 5. List of figures, handouts and OHPs.

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Book SynopsisWritten specifically for siblings of children with Tourette Syndrome (TS), Why Do You Do That? is an age-appropriate source of information for children and adolescents aged 8 to 16.Uttom Chowdhury and Mary Robertson describe tics and Tourette's in clear, child-friendly terms and provide a simple explanation of the biological causes. Other chapters focus on living with someone who has TS, associated features such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and aggression, and what siblings can do to help. The authors also offer practical tips on how to deal with issues such as problems at school and bullying.This book will prove invaluable for brothers and sisters of children with TS, as well as parents and other family members.Trade ReviewTourette Syndrome (TS), with its involuntary tics, can provoke embarrassment, confusion, fear or laughter. For those wishing to understand it, the condition is clearly detailed in this neat little book. Although presented in an easy to read style, liberally sprinkled with drawings, poems and humour, to appeal to a younger audience, supporting adults will find it invaluable, too.The book is packed with necessary facts to promote understanding and acceptance together with practical ideas for everyday living and support. -- The TeacherThe text is written in easy, accessible language, thereby ensuring the children who read it would gain a sound understanding of the issues and descriptions covered. The personal accounts are particularly engaging and would appeal to both young people with TS, their family members and friends. -- Support for LearningTo school age children, fitting in is extremely important; anything that separates them from the crowd is likely to be a source of concern and anxiety. Eye blinking, making faces, shoulder shrugging, barking or nodding are all common tics or signs of TS. They are also behaviours that make children stand out and can promote bullying. This book educates children about TS and tics and reassures them that they are not alone. -- Autism UsWritten by two experienced doctors, this book is designed to help young people understand Tourette syndrome. It uses simple language to explain about tics and other symptoms. The book explains the support and treatment available and includes first hand accounts of how young people cope. The book is aimed at eight- to -16 year olds and is useful for siblings and friends of young people with the syndrome. -- Young People NowYoungsters with Tourette Syndrome will find comfort and good humour in this superbly written book by Professor Mary Robertson and Dr Uttom Chowdhury, recognized experts in the treatment and scientific research of Tourette Syndrome. Their compassion and deep understanding of their patients and their families are unparalleled. -- Judith Ungar, President and Sue Levi-Pearl, VP, Medical and Scientific Program, Tourette Syndrome (USA) AssociationI am delighted to recommend this book, which is devoted to helping young people understand TS. It is not only written by two highly experienced doctors but also includes an interesting collection of personal experiences of people affected by the syndrome. Young people more than anyone may feel they are alone in facing the challenges of life and this book is a very valuable source of support and information for all families affected by TS. -- Jeremy Stern, Chair of Tourette Syndrome (UK)" Why do you do that?" is a good resource for children and young people with Tourette Syndrome and their siblings. Written by two highly experienced doctors, this book describes Tourette in plain language with key information prominently listed, to allow you to refer to it with ease. -- The Green LeafletHelpful references and further suggested readings are included at the end of the book. The authors' upbeat approach and skilful explanation make this an invaluable companion for children, young people and their siblings. -- The Green LeafletTable of ContentsForeword. Acknowledgements. 1. What is Tourette Syndrome? 2. What have research doctors found out about Tourette Syndrome? 3. Are there any other problems associated with Tourette Syndrome? 4. How do doctors treat and support young people with Tourette Syndrome? 5. How will I cope in school? 6. What are the life stories of brothers, sisters, parents and young people around the world with Tourette Syndrome? 7. What can I do for my brother or sister with Tourette Syndrome? 8. What is the future for a young person with Tourette Syndrome? Appendix I. Useful resources. Appendix II. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisA pioneering, field-defining collection of essential texts exploring girlhood in the nineteenth centuryTrade Review"This sparkling reader defines the field of girls' history and gathers its emerging canon. There are no better scholars than Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris to have a pulse on the scholarship, anticipate its future directions, and provide a model of academic collaboration."--Eileen Boris, coeditor of The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Dialogues, and Intersections"Some of the finest scholarship in the field. . . . Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsCredits ix Introduction 1 1. The Life Cycle of the Female Slave 15Deborah Gray White 2. "Grown Girls, Highly Cultivated": Female Education in an Antebellum Southern Family 31Anya Jabour 3. "Oh I Love Mother, I Love Her Power": Shaker Spirit Possession and the Performance of Desire" 69Susan McCully 4. Women on the Town: Sexual Exchange and Prostitution 80Christine Stansell 5. "If We Get the Girls, We Get the Race": Missionary Education of Native American Girls 104Carol Devens 6. "Rosebloom and Pure White," Or So It Seemed 120Mary Niall Mitchell 7. The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America 149Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 8. Psychosomatic Illness in History: The "Green Sickness" among Nineteenth-Century Adolescent Girls 179Nancy M. Theriot 9. The Caddie Woodlawn Syndrome: American Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century 199Anne Scott MacLeod 10. The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America 222Miriam Forman-Brunell 11. Inscribing the Self in the Heart of the Family: Diaries and Girlhood in Late-Victorian America 242Jane H. Hunter 12. Reading Little Women: The Many Lives of a Text 270Barbara Sicherman Contributors 301 Index 305

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Book SynopsisIf children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round—never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What You’re Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others.Trade ReviewIn Trusting What You’re Told, Harris argues that the longstanding idea that kids should be self-learners who gain knowledge mainly from their own explorations and observations is flawed. In the book’s introduction, Harris notes that we adults could barely get through the day without information from other people. It’s the same with kids, he says… Harris’ book explores lots of interesting ideas, including the impact of a mother’s level of education on a child’s inquisitiveness and why kids trust what they learn from their parents. -- Julie Rasicot * Education Week blog *Harris provides an important contribution by emphasizing that children, contrary to the view of thinkers like Piaget, do not develop only into a fixed rationality. Rather, children, from a very young age, are able to negotiate the empirical world alongside the supernatural, as well as develop through the tension created by attempting to balance truth and fantasy. Harris emphasizes the notion of testimony as a means to demonstrate the agency of the child and as a central tool through which a child is able to engage in thinking about the world. -- J. A. Helfer * Choice *The importance of learning from others was oddly neglected by too many of the twentieth-century pioneers of child psychology. In Trusting What You’re Told, Paul Harris reviews his and his colleagues’ beautiful work demonstrating just how entwined culture is with children’s development. -- Peter J. Richerson, author of Not by Genes AlonePaul Harris has given us an intricate and beautifully detailed picture of children as budding anthropologists. They don’t just learn about the world on their own, but rather from and through ‘informants’ who provide testimony—which naturally raises issues of trustworthiness. This is a really terrific book from a researcher acutely attuned to children’s inner lives. -- Michael Tomasello, author of Why We Cooperate

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Book SynopsisDescribes the nuts and bolts of play therapy and provides fifteen of the most popular materials and activities practitioners can use with children today. Some are classics in the field, including sand, block, and role play, while some are relatively new approaches, such as electric game play and virtual reality play.

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Book SynopsisChild laborers in South Asia, child soldiers in Sierra Leone and Uganda, Chinese youth playing computer games to earn virtual gold, youth involved in sex trafficking in the former Soviet republics and Thailand: these are just some of the young people featured in the news of late. The idea that young people are more malleable and the truisms that "youth are the future" or "children are our hope for the future" give news stories and scholarly accounts added meaning. To address how and why youth and children have come to seem so important to globalization, the contributors to this book look at the both the spatial relations and the temporal dimensions of globalization in places as far apart as Oakland, California, and Tamatave, Madagascar, in situations as disparate as the idealization of childhood innocence and the brutal lives of street children. Discourses of, and practices by, youth and children, from the design of toys to political mobilization, are critical sites through which people everywhere conceive of, produce, contest, and naturalize the new futures.

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Book SynopsisWritten for parents of children from toddlers to teens, this book gives parents a science-based plan to help their children grow up to be emotionally healthy adults. To build healthy and lasting parent-child relationships, parents need practical strategies that meet their child''s needs and address the circumstances that affect their families.A parent''s job unfolds and shifts over time. Concerns about sleep become worries about tantrums; anxieties about sharing become fears about grades and acting out in school. These concerns are natural, but many parents struggle to handle it all. Some feel drained, some lash out, and some feel like the worst parents in the world. This book shows parents how to use a six-step program to build a stronger relationship with their child. It teaches parents how to set parenting goals, prioritize their own emotional health, and create a structure for their family. Having laid that three-step foundation, parents learn the impTrade ReviewA wise look at building a strong parent-child relationship…there are myriad worksheets to help parents put the methods into practice. This will be a boon to parents overwhelmed by a chaotic home life. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Why Read This Book? Chapter 1: Holistic, Long-Term Parenting: From Toddlers to Teens Chapter 2: Goals: Knowing What Matters in Parenting Chapter 3: Health: An Essential Ingredient in Parenting Chapter 4: Structure: The 4Rs of Being a Family Chapter 5: Accept: Less Is More Chapter 6: Contain: Effective Discipline Is Selective Discipline Chapter 7: Lead: Would You Follow You? Chapter 8: Next Steps: Building Your Own Parenting Plan References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisMore children than ever are crossing international borders alone to seek asylum worldwide. In the past decade, over a half million children have fled from Central America to the United States, seeking safety and a chance to continue lives halted by violence. Yet upon their arrival, they fail to find the protection that our laws promise, based on the broadly shared belief that children should be safeguarded. A meticulously researched ethnography, Precarious Protections chronicles the experiences and perspectives of Central American unaccompanied minors and their immigration attorneys as they pursue applications for refugee status in the US asylum process. Chiara Galli debunks assumptions about asylum, including the idea that people are being denied protection because they file bogus claims. In practice, the United States interprets asylum law far more narrowly than what is necessary to recognize real-world experiences of escape from life-threatening violence. This is especially true for children from Central America. Galli reveals the formidable challenges of lawyering with children and exposes the humantoll of the US immigration bureaucracy.Trade Review"One of the most impressive ethnographic studies. . . .theoretically inspiring, methodologically rigorous, empirically rich, and politically significant. This brilliant book will be foundational to future studies of refugees and asylum seekers." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Exclusion and Protection in US Immigration Law and Policy 2. Central American Youths Escape from Violence 3. Enter the Bureaucratic Maze: The Legal Socialization of Unaccompanied Minors Begins 4. Access to Legal Representation: Representing Eligible Youths or Choosing the “Compelling” Case 5. Lawyering with Unaccompanied Minors: Helping Youths Apply for Asylum and Protections for Abandoned, Abused, or Neglected Children 6. Coming of Age under the Gaze of the State 7. Beyond Precarious Protections: Lessons for Humane Immigration Reform Methods Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisToy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children’s violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the kinds of enactments of infant distress we would normally associate with post-psychoanalytic modernity, creating a ripple effect in the literary texts that nest them: regressing developmental narratives, giving new value to wooden characters, exposing Realism’s solid objects to odd fracture, and troubling distinctions between artificial and authentic interiority. Toy Stories is the first study to take these scenes of anger and overwhelm seriously, challenging received ideas about both the nineteenth century and its literary forms. Radically re-conceiving nineteenth-century childhood and its literary depiction as anticipating the scenes, theories, and methodologies of early child analysis, Toy Stories proposes a shared literary and psychoanalytic discernment about child’s play that in turn provides a deep context for understanding both the “development” of the novel and the keen British uptake of Melanie Klein’s and Anna Freud’s interventions in child therapy. In doing so, the book provides a necessary reframing of the work of Klein and Freud and their fractious disagreement about the interior life of the child and its object-mediated manifestations.Table of ContentsPreface: A Toy Is Being Beaten | ix Introduction: Child’s Play | 1 1 Proper Objects | 27 2 Possible Persons | 54 3 Our Plays | 82 4 Bildung Blocks | 110 Conclusion: Toy Stories | 137 Acknowledgments | 147 Notes | 149 Works Cited | 189 Index | 205

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Book SynopsisGames make up a huge part of childhood, and memories of specific games stay with us throughout our lives. They form an integral part of growing up and stimulate imagination and creativity. From hide and seek to complex card and board games, street games that require no equipment to elaborate rainy day amusements, we all have experience of entertaining ourselves as children.In this fascinating trip down memory lane Caroline Goodfellow explores the history of childhood games and how they have changed throughout the ages. From ancient board games to childhood pastimes of the Middle Ages through to the street games of the 1950s and ’60s and the experiences of children in the current decade, she delves into the differences between games over time and region.Bound to awaken pleasant memories, Games of Childhood Past transports the reader to another time, providing a nostalgic look at how we played.

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Book SynopsisThe first history of childhood in Tudor EnglandTrade Review“Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme invites us to embrace a new way of engaging with the past.”—Joanne Paul, Times (UK)“Tudor Children is the first general study of the subject. It is crisp and factual and, with lots of enlivening illustration (prints, portraiture and pages of illuminated manuscript), beautiful to regard. . . . Mr. Orme has . . . done a yeoman’s job here of sleuthing out the details of childhood from an epoch that doesn’t seem to have been terribly interested in recording them.”—Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal“Lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced by Yale for a non-specialist audience, it was the product of 50 years’ research, drawing on Orme’s many earlier books.”—Ian Sansom, The Telegraph“As Nicholas Orme shows in this elegant and hugely enjoyable book, once Tudor youngsters stepped out of the frame and into real life, they could be as cheeky and inappropriate as their modern counterparts.”—Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times“That sense of the ordinary seized by strangeness—or, conversely, of strangeness punctured by recognition—captures exactly the experience of Tudor Children. . . . Encountering his subjects feels like time traveling in a double sense: they are versions of ourselves five hundred years ago and yesterday. Telling their stories takes enterprise, imagination, and tact—a capacity for hovering on the verge of childhood, looking as closely, sympathetically, and unsentimentally as possible without disturbing the scene. Orme does it beautifully, and he allows us to join him at it.”—Catherine Nicholson, New York Review of Books“Orme paints a vivid picture of every aspect of 16th-century children’s lives.”—Ian Sansom, The Telegraph, Summer reading list“Nicholas Orme’s book sets a precedent: historians overlook children to their own loss.”—Anna Parker, Times Literary Supplement“I loved this book for its pin-sharp glimpses of what really went on in the daily lives and minds of children.”—Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Daily Mail“The latest work by one of the most original and perceptive historians of English life writing today. [Orme’s] earlier books on childhood and education broke new ground and this one continues the tradition.”—Jonathan Sumption, The Spectator“The content [is] endlessly eye-opening . . . precise and colourful details . . . rich and compelling study.”—David Robinson, Country Life“Generalities regarding Tudor children are problematic: a child’s life chiefly depended on their status. . . . Yet Orme paints an intriguing world in flux.”—Bess Twiston Davies, The Tablet“Tudor Children is that rare thing: a book that will delight specialists and generalists in equal measure.”—Elizabeth Goldring, Literary Review“Orme’s is the first—and much overdue—survey of the period. His succinct and readable style and far-reaching scope will make the book an obvious choice for future undergraduate reading lists.”—Gabriel Bynge, Church Times“A captivating and visually stunning account, embellished with beautiful illustrations that enhance the reader’s understanding of the subject matter.”—Marc Daniel Rivera, KristiyaKnow“An endlessly fascinating and impeccably researched exploration of what it was like for children of all ages and backgrounds to grow up in sixteenth century England. This brilliant book provides the missing piece of the Tudor jigsaw.”—Tracy Borman, author of The Private Lives of the Tudors“Lavishly illustrated, this book is a joy to dip into or fully read. Professor Orme draws on a wide range of written and visual sources to give us vivid and varied descriptions of children’s lives from their birth to early deaths or adulthood.”—Susan Doran, author of Elizabeth I and Her Circle“This book offers the first modern compendium, from a wide range of primary sources and scholarly literature, of sixteenth-century English childhood. Delightfully illustrated and written in very readable style, the book gives a vivid sense of children’s experience. It shows that we gain a much richer understanding of Tudor society if we include its children.”—Glenn Richardson, author of The Field of Cloth of Gold“Wonderfully compelling, Nicholas Orme provides the first comprehensive account of Tudor childhood. Tudor Children is filled with fascinating examples from all levels of society and disproves, once and for all, any notion that childhood did not exist in the sixteenth century.”—Elizabeth Norton, author of The Lives of Tudor Women“A fascinating, detailed insight into Tudor childhood, full of pathos. Glimpsed at play and prayer, among family and avoiding peril, these children’s lives speak vibrantly across the years. Orme’s extensive research brings their distant lives closer in a rich and fulfilling study.”—Amy Licence, author of Anne Boleyn

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Book SynopsisThis book describes perfectionism's mental health costs and effects on achievement.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Perfectionism in Childhood and AdolescencePart I. Perfectionism: A Multifaceted Construct Chapter 1: Core Themes and Definitions Chapter 2: Perfectionism in Children and Adolescents: A Historical Perspective Chapter 3: The Emergence and Prevalence of Perfectionism in Children Chapter 4: The Comprehensive Model of Perfectionistic Behavior in Children and Adolescents Chapter 5: Keys to Understanding Perfectionistic Children Chapter 6: Measures of Perfectionism Part II. The Development of Perfectionism and its Expression in Academic and Social Contexts Chapter 7: The Development of Perfectionism Chapter 8: Perfectionism and Problems in Learning, Performance, and Achievement Chapter 9: Interpersonal and Psychosocial Aspects of PerfectionismPart III. Clinical Considerations Chapter 10: Perfectionism and Depression Chapter 11: Perfectionism and the Suicidal Adolescent Chapter 12: The Treatment of Perfectionism in Children and Adolescents Chapter 13: Building Adaptability and Resilience in the Perfectionistic Child References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisHow do I implement effective strategies for treating traumatic stress in this particular child or adolescent?Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents combines guidance for personalizing and implementing effective treatment approaches with practical materials to use in session. It describes the potential impact of trauma on children and adolescents, outlines core principles of effective treatment models, and provides practical guidance for tailoring treatment strategies to the specific needs of the individual. The featured worksheets and practical resources are designed to be compatible with evidence-based treatment models including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Prolonged Exposure, Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competence (ARC), and Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). Replete with adaptable, ready-made materials, this convenient resource will help any clinician working with trauma exposed 8-18-year-olds to implement effective treatment strategies in practice, as well as to take a tailored approach that engages them with creative, therapeutic activities.Trade ReviewDamion Grasso has developed a resource which will be helpful for developing and experienced clinicians. This is a highly flexible resource which provides a range of tools for working with traumatized children, adolescents and their families, and which can be drawn upon and incorporated into the intervention that the clinician is using. I liked the breadth of this work, with ideas for all stages of the therapeutic journey with the children and their carers. This resource is visual, creative and attractively set out. A good book to have on the shelf when fresh ideas are needed. -- Kim S. Golding, Clinical Psychologist, UKDr. Damion Grasso has created an extraordinarily valuable resource for all therapists working with children, adolescents and families in the aftermath of traumatic experiences. The clinical ideas, therapeutic exercises and helpful forms provided in this text reflect Dr. Grasso's exceptional creativity, clinical sensitivity and dedication to supporting the effective implementation of evidence-based treatments with this vulnerable population of children. -- Esther Deblinger, PhD, Co-Director of the Child Abuse Research Education and Service (CARES) Institute, Professor of Psychiatry, Rowan University, New Jersey, USAThis book provides outstanding practical guidance and exercises to augment clinical work using evidence-based models of therapy for traumatized children and adolescents. It is vital addition to the libraries of practicing clinicians, and the book will be of great benefit to trainees. I recommend it highly. -- Joan Kaufman, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Child and Adolescent Research and Education (CARE) Program, and Director of the Child Welfare Unit, Zigler Center for Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University, USAThis Workbook is a unique and invaluable resource for clinicians and clinical trainees who treat traumatized children. It will be required reading for every therapist and trainee whom I supervise in the UConn Child Trauma Clinic, and should be required reading in every children's mental health clinic and every graduate training program preparing mental health, social work, and counseling professionals to work therapeutically with children and teens. -- Julian D. Ford, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Graduate School Faculty, University of Connecticut Health Center, USATable of ContentsPart I. Getting Started. 1. What is Trauma Work? 2. Evidence-Based Models. 3. How to Use this Workbook. 4. Making a Problem List and Monitoring Progress. Part II. Preparing Children for Trauma Work. 5. Enhancing Social and Personal Resources. 6. What is Trauma and How Does it Affect Us? 7. How Will Psychotherapy Help? 8. Regulating Intense Emotion from the Bottom Up. 9. Regulating Intense Emotion from the Top Down. 10. Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices. 11. Emotional Vocabulary and Awareness. 12. Tolerating Trauma Work. Part III. Trauma Work with the Child. 13. Starting the Trauma Work. 14. Indirect Therapeutic Exposure. 15. Low-Level Therapeutic Exposure. 16. High-Level Therapeutic Exposure. 17. Trauma Memory Processing. 18. In-Vivo Exposure. Part IV. Working with the Caregiver. 19. What Does the Caregiver Bring to the Table? 20. What is Trauma and How Does it Affect My Child? 21. How Will Psychotherapy Help My Child? 22. Bringing it Home. 23. Managing Difficult Behavior. 24. Engaging Families with Barriers to Treatment. 25. Additional Resources. Worksheets and Handouts.

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