Description
Book SynopsisAn easy-to-read guide on raising emotionally healthy children that is based on sound psychological research. The book's format makes it a good choice for students, parents, or practitioners.
- Focuses on seven key areas of child development in raising psychologically healthy children
- Paints an overall picture of the skills children need to become functioning adults through translating the latest scientific research into workable guidelines
- Explores how early cognitive and social development is linked to universal issues of tolerance, sexism, and racism
- Written in a language suitable for the student or general reader
- A useful resource for clinicians to share with families under their care
Trade Review?The blood vessels feeding the substance of the book flow copiously with a nourishing abundance of information pertaining to psychological health and children.? (
Metapsychology, September 2009)
?Informative and practical, Raising Kids in the21st Century proves an invaluable guidebook and resource for parents, educators, students and clinicians.? ( Change, Houston Edition, August 2009)
Well written and geared to a broad audience, this straightforward, jargon-free book offers a detailed, step-by-step guide to promoting good psychological health in children from infancy to late adolescence. Many researchers that Hall (Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake) cites will be familiar to those well versed in developmental psychology. The author grounds her advice on commonsense values and reinforces them with relevant research. Vignettes of real-life family situations at the beginning of each chapter are charming. This will be an excellent introductory resource both for those beginning their studies in developmental psychology and for new parents anxious to do the right thing for their child. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers, all levels. -- D. J. Winchester, Yeshiva University (Choice, February 2009)
Table of ContentsPreface.
1. Raising Kids in the 21st Century.
2. Early Cognitive Growth.
3. Cognitive Growth Outside of the Home.
4. A Part of the Family: How Belonging Promotes Growth.
5. Social Growth and Peer Relationships.
6. Well-Armed: Transmitting Values to Children.
7. Fun Raising.
8. Tolerance and Social Activism.
Appendix A. General Resources.
Appendix B. Books for Children.
Appendix C. Books for Adults.
Notes.
References.
