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Jason Aronson, Inc. Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is difficult to simultaneously deliver a meaningful narrative to a mixed audience of parents and professionals, but that is what the author has managed to do here. The short, pithy case vignettes drive home the author's points, which really add to the practicality of his smooth read. This book melts in your mouth. -- Steven G. Gray, PhD, American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology, author of The Maltreated Child: Finding What Lurks Beneath, University of the RockiDr. Becker-Weidman's book is an excellent guide for the therapist using the DDP approach. The core use of the sequential phases as an instructional tool makes the—sometimes intangible and abstruse—concepts a tangible and facilitative guide for the psychotherapist. -- Joseph J. McGuill, Villa Santa Maria, Inc.Table of Contents1 Foreword by Daniel A. Hughes 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 1. Introduction Chapter 4 2. First Things First Chapter 5 3. A Trauma and Attachment Perspective Chapter 6 4. Components of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy Chapter 7 5. Phases Chapter 8 6. Primacy of Parents Chapter 9 7. Parents Are the Keystone Chapter 10 8. Conclusion and Summary 11 References 12 Index 13 About the Authors
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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) The Highly Sensitive Child
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Harmony/Rodale Your Childs Growing Mind
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Springer Theoretical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop GrangeoverSands UK July 412 1991 65 Nato Science Series D
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Springer The Varieties of Orthographic Knowledge II Relationships to Phonology Reading and Writing 11 Neuropsychology and Cognition
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Springer The Self in European and North American Culture Development and Processes 84 Nato Science Series D
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Sakura Book Publishing Ikigai
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Taylor & Francis Development and the Arts Critical Perspectives
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Taylor & Francis Infant Development Perspectives From Germanspeaking Countries
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Taylor & Francis Inc Levels of Cognitive Development
Book SynopsisThe proposed levels theory presented in this book concerns some developmental changes in the capacity to selectively encode information and provide rational solutions to problems. These changes are measured by the behavior exhibited in simple discrimination-learning problems that allow both for information to be encoded either selectively or nonselectively and for solutions to be produced by associative learning or by hypothesis-testing. The simplicity of these problems permits comparisons between infrahuman and human performance and also between a wide range of ages among humans. Human adults presented with these problems typically encode the relevant information selectively and solve the problems in a rational mode. Infrahuman animals, however, typically process the information nonselectively and solve the problems in an automatic, associative mode. How human children encode the information and solve the problems depends on their age. The youngest children -- like the infrahuman animals -- mostly encode the information nonselectively and solve the problems in the associative mode. But between early childhood and young adulthood there is a gradual, long-term, quantifiable increase in the tendency to encode the information selectively and to solve the problem by testing plausible hypotheses. The theory explains in some detail the structure, function, development, and operation of the psychological system that produces both the ontogenetic and phylogenetic differences. This system is assumed to be differentiated into an information-processing system and an executive system analogous to the differentiation of the nervous system into afferent and efferent systems. Each of these systems is further differentiated into structural levels, with the higher level, in part, duplicating the function of the lower level, but in a more plastic, voluntary, and efficient manner. The differentiation of the information-processing and executive systems into different functional levels is presumed to have occurred sometime during the evolution of mankind with the higher level evolving later than the lower one as the central nervous system became increasing encephalized. As for human ontogeny, the higher levels are assumed to develop later and more slowly than their lower-level counterparts. In addition to accounting for a substantial body of empirical data, the theory resolves some recurrent controversies that have bedeviled psychology since its inception as a science. It accomplishes this by showing how information can be both nonselectively and selectively encoded, how automatic associative learning and rational problem-solving can operate in harmony, and how cognitive development can be both qualitative and quantitative.Trade Review"...a scholarly effort to derive a set of simple premises from the simple problem-solving behaviors of humans and rats. The reader of this book will learn much of value about the historical context of the field of cognitive development and will be reminded of the importance of the distinction between physical action and information processing."—American Journal of PsychologyTable of ContentsContents: A Preview. Selective and Nonselective Encoding. Developmental Trends in Information Processing. Developmental Changes in Reasoning. Automatic Learning and Rational Hypothesis Testing. Explaining Learning Sets. A Model of Lower Level Operation. Acquired and Intrinsic Dominance. About Higher Level Processing. An Overview.
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Taylor & Francis Caregiving Systems
Book SynopsisCaregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people needing care and assistance. The responsibility for care typically falls on families at a time when they have limited resources to meet these needs. At a societal level, the need for care for growing numbers of disabled elders poses a major challenge for how to organize supportive services in an efficient and responsive system. Bringing together multiple perspectives on caregiving, the authors' explore informal and formal family caregiving and the pivotal issue of how these systems interface and interact. An overview of this variation is provided by examining family caregiving from three perspectives: * the effects of culture on helping patterns and family responsibility, * how different disabilities affect patterns of family care, and * longitudinal perspectives on the imTrade Review"...provides a scholarly examination of formal and informal systems of care."—FSP Update"...provides readers the opportunity to reflect on where research has been focused....suggests that the challenge for the next generation of caregiving researchers continues to be the interface of the informal and formal systems in the development of implementation, use, and evaluation of successful interventions."—Contemporary PsychologyTable of ContentsContents: K.W. Schaie, Preface. Part I:Informal Systems of Care.S.H. Zarit, Introduction to Part I. E. Yu, W.T. Liu, Z-Y. Wang, P.S. Levy, R. Katzman, M-Y. Zhang, G-Y. Qu, F-F. Chen, Caregivers of the Cognitively Impaired and the Disabled in Shanghai, China. L.C. Yu, Intergenerational Transfer of Resources Within Policy and Cultural Contexts. L.M. Burton, S. Sörensen, Temporal Context and the Caregiver Role: Perspectives from Ethnographic Studies of Multigeneration African-American Families. R. Morycz, Caregiving Families and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. W.R. Avison, R.J. Turner, S. Noh, K.N. Speechley, The Impact of Caregiving: Comparisons of Different Family Contexts and Experiences. A.M. Matthews, Issues in the Examination of the Caregiving Relationship. R. Schulz, G.M. Williamson, R. Morycz, D.E. Beigel, Changes in Depression Among Men and Women Caring for an Alzheimer's Patient. M.A. Smyer, Caregiving Research: Juggling While Walking. L.I. Pearlin, S.H. Zarit, Research into Informal Caregiving: Current Perspectives and Future Directions. Part II:Formal Systems of Care.S.H. Zarit, Introduction to Part II. C. Harrington, Social Health Maintenance Organizations: An Innovative Financing and Service Delivery Model. D. Brannon, Are SHMOs Remedies to Bureaucracy? G. Niederehe, Public Policy Issues Related to the SHMO Demonstrations and Alzheimer's Disease. L. Lévesque, Québec Home-Care Services: A Program at the Local Community Level. C.J. Whitlatch, The Direction of Home-Based Community Care in Québec: The Effects on Caregiving Families. J.T. Mullan, Barriers to the Use of Formal Services Among Alzheimer's Caregivers. M.A.P. Stephens, Understanding Barriers to Caregivers' Use of Formal Services: The Caregiver's Perspective. R.A. Kane, J.D. Penrod, Family Caregiving Policies: Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Study. A.L. Townsend, Methodological Issues Confronting Research on Service Use Among Caregiving Families. S.H. Zarit, L.I. Pearlin, Family Caregiving: Integrating Informal and Formal Systems for Care.
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Taylor & Francis Emerging Cognitive Abilities in Early infancy
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Taylor & Francis Inc Developmental Perspectives on Children With
Book SynopsisThis volume has two purposes. The first is to summarize, substantiate, and extend current knowledge on the development of children with high incidence disabilities--most notably, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and mild mental retardation. The second is to honor the career of Professor Barbara K. Keogh and her contributions to the developmental study of children with high incidence disabilities. Internationally recognized for her accomplishments, Keogh is esteemed for her originality and clarity of thought. For nearly forty years, she has set an extraordinary model of analytic rigor combined with a kind and generous manner that inspires, supports, and sets an exacting standard of scholarship. The contributing authors to this volume represent only a fraction of the students and scholars touched by her distinguished career. In conceiving this volume, the editors sought to represent the topics, problems, and issues to which Keogh has devoted herself. They invited chTrade Review"...this book aims to summarize what is known about the development of children with high-incidence disabilities and to formulate questions for future research. The editors target a broad audience....At the chapter level, the readings are informative and thought provoking....In publishing this volume, the editors pave the way for researchers and policymakers to build on their pioneering efforts. As an added bonus, readers have the opportunity to join the editors and contributing authors in being inspired by the career of Barbara Keogh."—APA REVIEW OF BOOKSTable of ContentsContents: Part I:Developmental Foundations and Extensions.R. Gallimore, Three Parallels Between the Development of Special Education and the Career of Professor Keogh. E.E. Werner, Risk and Protective Factors in the Lives of Children With High Incidence Disabilities. M.K. Rothbart, L.B. Jones, Temperament: Developmental Perspectives. R. Gallimore, L.P. Bernheimer, T.S. Weisner, Family Life Is More Than Managing Crisis: Broadening the Agenda of Research on Families Adapting to Childhood Disability. S. Vaughn, B. Elbaum, The Self-Concept and Friendships of Students With Learning Disabilities: A Developmental Perspective. Part II:Diagnosis, Classification, and Intervention.D.L. MacMillan, D.L. Speece, Utility of Current Diagnostic Categories for Research and Practice. S.R. Forness, K.A. Kavale, H.M. Walker, Identifying Children At Risk for Antisocial Behavior: The Case for Comorbidity. J.K. Torgesen, Reading Disabilities. B.Y.L. Wong, Metacognition in Writing. L.S. Fuchs, D. Fuchs, Performance Assessment Using Complex Tasks: Implications for Children With High-Incidence Disabilities. Part III:Policy.M.J. Kaufman, L.M. Lewis, Confusing Each With All: A Policy Warning. J.J. Gallagher, Knowledge vs. Policy in Special Education. G.R. Lyon, Programmatic Research in Learning Disabilities. Part IV:Biographical.M.S. Faust, C.K. Lindsay, C.E. Smith, A. Tessier, Multiple Perspectives on the Career of Professor Barbara K. Keogh.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Developing Theories of Intention Social Understanding and Selfcontrol
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Taylor & Francis Inc Problems in Second Language Acquisition Second Language Acquisition Research Series
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Taylor & Francis Medium of Instruction Policies Which Agenda Whose Agenda
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Taylor & Francis Nature and Nurture The Complex Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Human Behavior and Development
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Taylor & Francis Inc Childrens Responses to the Screen A Media
Book SynopsisThe past several decades have witnessed thousands of studies into children and the media. Yet, much academic research is still in its infancy when it comes to our knowledge about the uses, preferences, and effects of different media. This distinctive volume moves the field forward in this regard, with its insights into the latest theories and research on children and the media. Author Patti M. Valkenburg explores screen media (i.e., television, films, video and computer games, and the Internet), and focuses her study on the most fundamental topics in the study of children and the media. In each chapter, Valkenburg examines an essential topic on children and the media: the effect of media violence, children's emotional reactions to news and entertainment, the intended and unintended effects of advertising, and the uses and effects of computer games and the Internet. She has structured the chapters to provide an overview of existing theories and research on a particular topic, and supplements the work of others with her own ground-breaking research findings. She provides a careful and even-handed treatment of research in children's media, and includes current and noteworthy studies. As a resource for study in children and media and media psychology, this volume provides a timely and thorough examination of the state of theory and research. It will serve as a valuable reference for scholars and as an engaging text for advanced students.Table of ContentsContents: Preface. Changing Perspectives on Children and the Media. The Development of a Child Into a Media Consumer. Media Violence and Aggression. Fear Responses to News and Entertainment. Children and Advertising. Uses and Effects of Interactive Media.
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Taylor & Francis Inc Human Development from Early Childhood to Early
Book SynopsisData generated from longitudinal studies allow researchers to better understand how context and experience interact with stable characteristics of the developing person over time. This book summarizes a landmark longitudinal study of 200 children, from the ages of 3 to 23. The Munich Longitudinal Study on the Ontogenesis of Individual Competencies (LOGIC) examined the development of individual differences over time and whether it is possible to predict later competencies from earlier ones. Offering a snapshot of theory and data on personality, social, motor, moral, and cognitive development, the contributors help us understand which individual differences can and cannot be altered through schooling and other experiences and how differences seen in the earliest stages are later reflected in adulthood. The results provide valuable insight into the strengths and limitations of early prediction of individual differences. This is the second volume to review the wealth of data geneTrade Review"One has to be thankful and tremendously grateful for the time, energy, and thought that went into this longitudinal study ... for completing this enormous task, as well as for doing it so well." - David Elkind, in PsycCRITIQUES"This book will be of great interest to many scholars, educators and research scientists. … The editors provide a very general and accessible ‘map’ for the reader. … [It’s] an important resource about longitudinal studies. … The contributors are … top-notch." - Melanie Killen, University of MarylandTable of ContentsM. Bullock, W. Schneider, Introduction and Overview: Goals and Structure of LOGIC. W. Schneider, J. Stefanek, F. Niklas, Development of Intelligence and Thinking. J. Ahnert, W. Schneider, K. Bos Developmental Changes and Individual Stability of Motor Abilities from Preschool to Young Adulthood. W. Schneider, M. Knopf, B. Sodian, Verbal Memory Development from Early Childhood to Early Adulthood. G. Nunner-Winkler, Moral Motivation from Childhood to Early Adulthood. J.B. Asendorpf, J.J.A. Denissen, M.A.G. van Aken, Personality Trajectories from Early Childhood through Emerging Adulthood. F.W. Schrader, A. Helmke, Development of Self-confidence from Adolescence to Early Adulthood. M. Bullock, B. Sodian, S. Koerber, Doing Experiments and Understanding Science: Development of Scientific Reasoning from Childhood to Adulthood. W. Schneider, The Development of Reading and Spelling: Relevant Precursors, Developmental Changes and Individual Differences. E. Stern, The Development of Mathematical Competencies: Sources of Individual Differences and their Developmental Trajectories. W. Schneider, M. Bullock, Epilogue: Problems and Potentials of the Munich Longitudinal Study. Bibliography of Publications Stemming from the LOGIC Project.
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Random House USA Inc The Reason I Jump
Book Synopsis“One of the most remarkable books I’ve ever read. It’s truly moving, eye-opening, incredibly vivid.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily ShowNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYNPR • The Wall Street Journal • Bloomberg Business • BookishFINALIST FOR THE BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE FIRST BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYou’ve never read a book like The Reason I Jump. Written by Naoki Higashida, a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, it is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: “Why do people with autism talk so loudly and weirdly?” “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” “Why don’t you make eye contact when you’re talking?” and “What’s the reason you jump?” (Naoki’s answer: “When I’m jumping, it’s as if my feelings are going upward to the sky.”) With disarming honesty and a generous heart, Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself. His insights—into the mystery of words, the wonders of laughter, and the elusiveness of memory—are so startling, so strange, and so powerful that you will never look at the world the same way again. In his introduction, bestselling novelist David Mitchell writes that Naoki’s words allowed him to feel, for the first time, as if his own autistic child was explaining what was happening in his mind. “It is no exaggeration to say that The Reason I Jump allowed me to round a corner in our relationship.” This translation was a labor of love by David and his wife, KA Yoshida, so they’d be able to share that feeling with friends, the wider autism community, and beyond. Naoki’s book, in its beauty, truthfulness, and simplicity, is a gift to be shared.Praise for The Reason I Jump“This is an intimate book, one that brings readers right into an autistic mind.”—Chicago Tribune (Editor’s Choice)“Amazing times a million.”—Whoopi Goldberg, People“The Reason I Jump is a Rosetta stone. . . . This book takes about ninety minutes to read, and it will stretch your vision of what it is to be human.”—Andrew Solomon, The Times (U.K.)“Extraordinary, moving, and jeweled with epiphanies.”—The Boston Globe “Small but profound . . . [Higashida’s] startling, moving insights offer a rare look inside the autistic mind.”—Parade
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Wayne State University Press The Child in the World Embodiment Time and Language in Early Childhood Landscapes of Childhood Landscapes of Childhood S
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Christian Board of Publication Human Development and Faith Second Edition LifeCycle Stages of Body Mind and Soul
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Development of Working Memory
Book SynopsisWorking memory refers to the temporary storage and manipulation of information that is being processed in a wide range of cognitive tasks. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Development brings together research on the development of working memory that arises within two quite different approaches. The first is the neo-Piagetian perspective, which proposes that working memory limitations play an important role in the development of cognitive abilities. Accordingly, a major goal of neo-Piagetian research has been to develop techniques for measuring the capacity of working memory and to chart its development. Papers by Alp, de Ribaupierre and Bailleux, Morra, and Pascual-Leone, illustrate different facets of this approach.The second approach stems from the study of working memory and information-processing in mainstream cognitive psychology, which has suggested the need to distinguish relatively peripheral phonological and visuo-spatial subsy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Birth Of The Family An Empirical Enquiry
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Anthroposophic Press Inc Therapeutic Eurythmy for Children
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Adolescent Psychiatry V. 23
Book SynopsisLaunched in 1971, Adolescent Psychiatry, in the words of founding coeditors Sherman C. Feinstein, Peter L. Giovacchinni, and Arthur A. Miller, promised to explore adolescence as a process . . . to enter challenging and exciting areas that may have profound effects on our basic concepts. Further, they promised a series that will provide a forum for the expression of ideas and problems that plague and excite so many of us working in this enigmatic but fascinating field. For over two decades, Adolescent Psychiatry has fulfilled this promise. The repository of a wealth of original studies by preeminent clinicians, developmental researchers, and social scientists specializing in this stage of life, the series has become an essential resource for all mental health practitioners working with youth. Volume 23 of The Annals begins with the late Richard Marohn''s reexamination of Peter Blos''s concept of prolonged adolescence, followed by contributions on the dTable of ContentsEsman, In Memoriam: Derek Miller, M.D. Weintrob,Foreword. Part I: Developmental Considerations.Marohn, A Reexamination of Peter Blos's Concept of Prolonged Adolescence. Tyson, Developmental Roots of Adolescent Disturbance. Katz, The Role of Family Interactions in Adolescent Depression: A Review of Research Findings. Part II: Psychopathological Issues in Adolescence.Jaffe, Adolescent Substance Abuse: Assessment and Treatment. Schmidt, Lay, Esser, & Ihle, Psychosomatic and Depressive Symptoms from Age Eight to Age Eighteen. Part III: Psychotherapeutic Issues in Adolescence.Katz, Establishing the Therapeutic Alliance. Anthony, Treatment of a Narcissistically Disordered Adolescent: Some Theoretical and Therapeutic Considerations. Perl, Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Success: Self-Destructive Behavior as an Expression of Autonomy in Young Women. Part IV: School-Based and Preventative Programs.Renshaw, Adolescent Sex and AIDS. Mauk, Sharpnack, A Light Unto the Darkness: The Psychoeducational Imperative of School-Based Suicide Postvention. Pearson, Jennings, & Norcross, A Program of Comprehensive School-Based Mental Health Services in a Large Urban Public School District: The Dallas Model. Gottlieb, The Current Crisis in Psychotherapy at Boarding Schools: Protecting the Interests of the Child and of the School.
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Social Life of Children in a Changing Society
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