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Descartes' Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human
by Paul Bloom
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All humans see the world in two fundamentally different ways: even babies have a rich understanding of both the physical and social worlds. They expect objects to obey principles of physics, and they're startled when things disappear or defy gravity. Yet... ( read more)
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The Wild Boy of Aveyron
by Harlan Lane
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"A brilliantly-researched history that really reads like a novel...a model of living scholarship...It is a unique contribution to the history of medicine, psychology, and education."--Clara Claiborne Park, Washington Post "The Wild Boy of Aveyron... ( read more)
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Genograms: Assessment and Intervention
by Monica Mcgoldrick
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Using famous families as case studies, this book explains how to draw, interpret and apply the genogram, a graphic way of organizing information gathered during a family assessment. It explains how the use of genograms can reveal inter-generational... ( read more)
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One Potato, Two Potato
by Mary Knapp
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Children's folklore--those customs, rhymes, games, jeers, songs, superstitions, stories, and pranks that children play among themselves--serves an important purpose: it helps them deal with feelings and taboo subjects which they are unable to express... ( read more)
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The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands' Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
by Adolescent Mental He
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For the more than 2 million Americans with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the intrusive thoughts and uncontrollable behaviors can take a harsh toll, as author Jared Douglas Kant knows all too well. Diagnosed with OCD at age 11, Jared became ruled by... ( read more)
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Therapeutic Powers of Play
by Charles E Schaefer
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Play therapy has been the most popular form of child therapy for the past fifty years, but the underlying curative elements have remained mysterious. This pioneering book provides a unique understanding of the process of play therapy by highlighting the... ( read more)
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Adolescents at Risk: Prevalence and Prevention
by Joy G Dryfoos
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This book will be essential for social and developmental psychologists, sociologists, policy makers, and interested lay persons.... ( read more)
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Implications of Parent-Child Boundary Dissolution for Developmental Psychopathology: Who Is the Parent and Who Is the Child?
by Patricia K Kerig
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Kerig (psychology, Miami U.) compiles 11 essays by contributors from
the US in psychology, psychiatry, and other fields who discuss
parent-child boundary dissolution, its definition, relationship to
developmental processes and attachment, and... ( read more)
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents
by Kedar Nath Dwivedi
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PTSD is more usually considered as an adult disorder: this volume concentrates on children and adolescents. The introductory chapters are followed by a chapter on assessment and several chapters on treatment. The issues of clinical management in some of... ( read more)
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Children with Autism: A Developmental Perspective (Developing Child)
by Marian Sigman
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A window on the insular world of autism, this book offers a rare close look at the mysterious condition that afflicts approximately 350,000 Americans and affects millions more. As they make sense of the many features of autism at every level of... ( read more)
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Savage Girls and Wild Boys
by Michael Newton
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-274) and index.... ( read more)
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The Autistic Spectrum: A Parents' Guide to Understanding and Helping Your Child
by Lorna Wing
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Parents of autistic children are offered practical advice from a leading medical authority on autism--also the parent of an autistic child--who explains proper diagnostic techniques and ways to teach basic skills, improve communication, expand social... ( read more)
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The Youngest Minds: Parenting and Genetic Inheritance in the Development of Intellect and Emotion
by Ann B Barnet
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What every parents needs to know about what goes on in a child's brain during the critical first months and years of life. Drawing on insights from recent breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychological research, The Youngest Minds offers a fundamentally... ( read more)
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Not the Thing I Was: Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School
by Stephen Eliot
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288).... ( read more)
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Course of Life Infancy Volume 1
by Stanley I Greenspan
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A revised and expanded version of The Course of life: psychoanalytic contributions toward understanding personality development (GPO, 1980). Among the contributors: Anna Freud, Brazelton, Erikson. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc... ( read more)
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The Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing--From a Mother Whose Child Recovered
by Karen Siff Exkorn
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Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorder When Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull... ( read more)
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Treatment of Childhood Disorders
by Eric Mash
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Represents the culmination of several years effort to develop a book
that would be scholarly, yet applied, and would address a perceived
void in the literature. An advanced text on the empirically based
treatment of child psychopathological disorders.... ( read more)
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Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
by David Kirby
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In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule... ( read more)
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Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology
by Cecil R Reynolds
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This work serves as a text for undergraduate and graduate courses in
clinical child neuropsychology and related fields, as a reference for
practitioners and professors, and as a stimulant to research. Major
sections address foundations and current... ( read more)
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Violence in the Lives of Adolescents
by Martha B Straus
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Violence in the Lives of Adolescents provides answers to some of the most pressing questions about today's youth: Why is there so much violence in their lives? Why is so little being done about it? What can be done to shape safer lives for adolescents... ( read more)
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