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Perfect foundation for understanding children's drawings
DiLeo does a great job of treating the subject matter of the interpretation of children's drawings.This is thorough work which gives the reader insight into such crucial aspects of interpretation as development, content, and projective uses.This is a "must read"for any therapist intending to elicit and interpret drawings from childclients. ... Read more

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Feeding problems in children are relatively common, and often resolve themselves with little need for intervention. However, some categories of feeding problem are severe, persistent, and may be life-threatening without skilled involvement by professionals, including medical and surgical intervention. This revised and expanded Second Edition of Feeding Problems in Children deals with these severe and persistent problems, summarising the different kinds of work undertaken with children and their families in a number of countries. It first discusses the theoretical frameworks and perspectives, before moving on to explore clinical and applied research aspects of children's feeding. Finally, a comprehensive Clinical Practice Toolkit has been added to this edition, providing clinical models, checklists, model forms and reports.Featuring contributions from well-known international experts in the field, comprehensive and fully referenced, this book continues to be essential reading for all those practising or training in paediatrics in primary or secondary care, including paediatricians, GPs, gastroenterologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, paediatric nurses, health visitors and allied health professionals.'Given the multi-cultural composition of today's communities, the decision by Drs Southall and Martin to include a chapter on cultural aspects to feeding was most insightful. This book, with its comprehensive coverage of the issues and a practical Toolkit with examples of materials from a multi-disciplinary practice, makes an essential contribution to the education of frontline clinicians dealing with feeding problems in young children.' - from the Foreword by William B CristFrom reviews of the First Edition: 'A detailed guide, extensively referenced'FAMILY MEDICINE'A useful addition to a hospital library or multi-disciplinary paediatric library' PHYSIOTHERAPY JOURNAL ... Read more

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Support for Parents Whose Children are Depressed

Contrary to popular belief, young children do get seriously depressed, and many try to kill themselves. In Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts the authors, Shamoo and Patros, show parents: how to learn to talk, listen, and communicate effectively with a depressed child; what situations can cause a child or adolescent to wish to commit suicide; what signs to watch for; myths and misinformation about suicide; how to determine the risk of suicide; and How to intervene.

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This Second Edition of Child Abuse is devoted to a topic of major social and clinical significance. In this book, the author describes the different types of abuse and discusses the influence they have on development and social consequences in childhood and adolescence. The book uses theory and research to convey the importance of multiple contextual influences that affect abuse and can be used to ameliorate it. ... Read more

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Lots of highlighting but it was all important stuff so it actually helped me. THANKS! Speedy service!

A must read for anyone working with children
Thx for an excellent contribution to the field of child development and in strategies for reducing the epidemic of child maltreatment!

Child abuse. Implications for child development
This is the second edition of a small, but important book on the implications of child abuse for child development and psychopathology. It is written by David A Wolfe, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He has been very active in the field of child abuse and neglect with several books to his name, like �Children of battered women�, �Preventing physical and emotional abuse of children�, �Alternatives to violence� and �Abnormal child psychology�. This book is part of the Sage Series on �Developmental Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry� prepared by experts in clinical child psychiatry, psychology, development and related disciplines. The focus is on the diagnosis, assesment, treatment and prevention of problems in developmental psychopathology that arise in the period from infancy through adolescence. The book is devided into six chapters: What is child maltreatment ?, Normal and abnormal child rearing patterns, A developmental perspective of the abused child, Unraveling the causes with theory, background and multidimentional influences and the last chapter on Prevention and treatment strategies. Since the first edition of this book (1987) there has been an explosion in child abuse research and therefore also more knowledge and background to understand the mechanisms involved. This is taken into account in this book, but also the fact that the author in the meantime had three children of his own has made this book very important for professionals working with abused and neglected children. ... Read more

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Children pay close attention to their parents' moods. When parents feel upset, their kids may become anxious, and when parents wind down, children also get the chance to relax. When you feel overwhelmed and stressed, it can be hard to help your child feel balanced. The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids, written by two child therapists, offers more than fifty activities you can do together as a family to help you and your child replace stressful and anxious feelings with feelings of optimism, confidence, and joy.

You'll learn proven relaxation techniques, including deep breathing, guided imagery, mindfulness, and yoga, and then receive guidance for teaching them to your child. Your child will also discover how taking time to do art and creative projects can create a sense of fulfillment and calm. By completing just one ten-minute activity from this workbook each day, you'll make relaxation a family habit that will stay with both you and your child for a lifetime.

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Great book
I love this book it works for children and adults.I am a professional counselor but it works great for parents as well.

GREAT BOOK!
I use this book in an individual and group counseling setting! This has great activities for any kid! I think it works especially well with kids that have ADD/ADHD, anger, anxiety, and/or impulse control problems.
Use this book to start teaching your child relaxation and self calming skills early!

Helpful resource
This books is an invaluable resource for therapists and counselors seeking practical techniques to help children cope with stress and anxiety. Readers may also be interested in the following books:

Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families: Practitioners Share Their Most Effective Techniques

Creative Interventions for Troubled Children & Youth

More Creative Interventions for Troubled Children and Youth

Ready, Set, Relax : A Research-Based Program of Relaxation, Learning and Self-Esteem for Children

Cool Cats, Calm Kids: Relaxation and Stress Management for Young People

Easy to Use and Extremely Effective
My 10 year old daughter has been experiencing some situational anxiety.She and I began using this workbook together to help her feel more relaxed and in control.At first, she was very skeptical, but we began using the Relaxing through Guided Imagery activities.Within a few nights, she was no longer experiencing the anxiety attacks that prevented her from falling asleep.She now asks for the activities before bed and we have begun to do them as a family. I highly recommend this book.It is easy to use and extremely effective. ... Read more

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With a unique and engaging perspective, Child Development and Education, Fourth Edition is the only comprehensive child development text written specifically for educators. Because it is written by a developmentalist and an educational psychologist team, it provides the coverage and research found in more traditional child development texts but also then helps readers understand how to use this information as educators. Unique features include: how the text illustrates key concepts by using children's and adolescents' schoolwork, artwork, and interview excerpts, as well as case studies and video examples authentic artifacts from children and adolescents; Observation Guidelines tables with educational applications; Development and Practice features with concrete strategies for facilitating children’s development and learning; and extensive coverage of diversity and its implications for helping all youngsters thrive.New to the fourth edition, accompanying each text is an innovative online resource, MyEducationLab, containing “Building Teaching Skills” exercises, practice quizzes, homework and review exercises, videos for analysis, “Understanding Research” exercises (in which students read and interpret research articles), and supplementary readings. All of the many features of the text and its abundant resources help readers actually see development, not simply read about it–preparing educators and those working with children and adolescents to apply development concepts to actual practice.

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AWFUL SERVICE
Seller NEVER responded to Amazon or my repeated e-mails (at least three) when inquiries were made as to the whereabouts of my book.I finally canceled the order and, a week later, I get an e-mail saying it shipped.WTH?????

Awesome book ..
Bought this book for my wife's course in Child Development. I ended up reading while she took breaks and got hooked on to it. Am almost done reading it and its not even my subject. Very insightful, very well explained concepts and fundamentals.

If you are buying this book for your course material - do not hesitate, its worth it. My wife benefited a great deal from this book.

Psst. Amazon prices were cheaper than the college bookstore prices.

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Be Aware, If You Need This as a Text for a College Class...It Contains NO CDs
As other's have mentioned this version is NOT the full blown collegiate text book version, as it has NO cds with it. The 3rd edition, which Amazon stocks, does. Strange.

Great Company!
Book came in on time and in GREAT condition. will definately recommend people to purchase books from THE BOOKCELLAR.

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I was happy with the book. It arrived quickly and in great condition.My only issue is that it did not have the 3 CD's that come with new edition.I emailed customer service with my complaint and they sent me another book, but still without the CD's.After some investigation they figured out that the book they are advertising does not come with the CD's.I was dissappointed :( ... Read more

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Prejudice and, in particular, ethnic awareness in children is a controversial topic, arousing strong opinions in professionals and parents. Many liberal-minded researchers would like to think children in the right environment will be free from prejudice. As this book shows, the evidence is that because of their cognitive limitations, children are almost inevitably prejudiced up to the age of about seven. This has led to a literature on the subject which is too often self-serving or confused. Now, this book provides a complete up-to-date survey of the topic. It explains the conceptual and developmental differences between ethnic awareness, identity and attitudes. Scientific and lay theories are discussed and measured against recent findings. Her conclusions are that up to the age of about seven, children are almost inevitably prejudiced and that after that age their attitudes are open to influence. Parents and teachers have a key role to play in shaping childrens' outlook and behaviour. ... Read more

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Based on the Hospice Foundation of America's second annual teleconference, this book explores three basic themes in children's grief. Firstly, it maintains that children are always developing; therefore their understanding of death and their reactions to illness and loss are also multifaceted and constantly undergoing change. Secondly, children grieve in ways that are both different from and similar to adults. While they may need different therapeutic approaches from their elders, each loss is different and the grief experience will be affected by many of the same factors that affect adults. Thirdly, it holds that they need significant support as they grieve.; Talking to children about loss and and illness is too important to wait until a crisis; rather, it is essential to provide opportunities to discuss loss in times that are not so Emotionally Laden. This Book Aims To Demonstrate That Open Communication between parents and children will lead to skills and understanding that are essential to the child for coping with loss and reaffirming that death is part of the process of living. ... Read more

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Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication.

Volume 2: Cognition, Perception, and Language, edited by Deanna Kuhn, Columbia University, and Robert S. Siegler, Carnegie Mellon University, covers mechanisms of cognitive and perceptual development in language acquisition. It includes new chapters devoted to neural bases of cognition, motor development, grammar and langauge rules, information processing, and problem solving skills. ... Read more

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Christiane Brems, an experienced clinician, supervisor, and educator, presents a metatheoretical yet practical guide to working with children ages 3 to 12 years. She draws heavily on developmental, interpersonal, family systems, and self-psychological schools of thought and integrates the core components of all of these approaches in a clear and concise manner. She stresses the need for intensive assessment to precede conceptualization and treatment planning so that treatment techniques are dictated by the needs of each child and family. Brems has contoured the third edition to meet the practical needs and expectations of students and practitioners. Divided among four sections, the chapters follow the logical development of clinicians, mirroring the natural flow of work with children--from the practitioner's self-exploration, to learning about special aspects of children (such as diversity and development), to awareness about the special needs and demands of children as related to environmental, legal, and ethical issues. Brems prepares clinicians to discover their own personal traits that may facilitate or hinder their work with children. She walks child therapists and counselors through the initial stages of intake, assessment, and conceptualization. The material on assessment instruments is thoroughly updated; discussions refer to the latest versions of instruments, and if new instruments emerged that meet one of the purposes deemed essential to child treatment, they are included. The text contains case examples, each illustrating a specific therapeutic technique. ... Read more

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Perfect!
This product came in PERFECT condition and very promptly. I couldn't have asked for the transaction to go any more smoothly. Thank you! ... Read more

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Observing and Understanding Child Development: A Child Study Manual is a text designed to help students and practitioners alike learn how to gather and interpret data to gain insight into child development. It covers observation, developmental domains including patterns of development, child development theory, and communication. It features a unique and vitally important chapter on art, music, and movement development, and also covers special needs children in every chapter. Combined with many wonderful activities and a CD-ROM that includes guided observations via streaming video, this book will move the reader through theory to application, and will remain a timely and important resource that can referenced again and again. This vital resource is also the perfect reference for the practicing professional and the dedicated parent. ... Read more

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Berk's signature storytelling style invites students to actively learn beside the text's "characters" who share their influential experiences and developmental milestones. Students are provided with an exceptionally clear and coherent understanding of child development, emphasizing the interrelatedness of all domains--physical, cognitive, emotional, and social--throughout the text narrative and in special features. Focusing on education and social policy as critical pieces of the dynamic system in which the child develops, Berk pays meticulous attention to the most recent scholarship in the field. Berk helps students connect their learning to their personal and professional areas of interest and their future pursuits as parents, educators, heath care providers, counselors, social workers, and researchers. ... Read more

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Great
Book was fun and interesting to read. Had easy to read charts and was informative. Highly Recommended!

Just in time!
Arrived just in time (test next week :/). Thanks!! Only side note is there is a lot of hight lighting in the book. But, that's the price you pay for a used book.

Wonderful
The purchase was suppose to be just good or acceptable, but I was impressed by how good it was. It is highlighted, but those highlights were originally apart of the book, so it was practically new and not hardly used. It's easy to read and just what I needed for class! I would have liked to know how big it was going to be though. Thanks!

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This book is on great condition and arrived promptly to my home even on a holiday weekend.

Good product. What I ordered is exactly what I was expecting.
I received the book in a decent time frame and I was not disappointed with the book. I would buy from this person again. ... Read more

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Thorough. Accurate. Reliable. Engaging.These are just a few of the words used by adopters and reviewers of John Santrock’s Child Development.Child Development is widely considered the most accurate and up-to-date topically-organized text in the field. Used by hundreds of thousands of students over eleven editions, its learning goals-driven learning system provides a clear roadmap to student understanding of the content. The fully revised twelfth edition reinforces the highly contemporary tone and focus by featuring hundreds of new citations. ... Read more

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Good book
If you're paying this much, probably some teacher is making you buy the book, and you don't really care how good it is or not... but just in case:

Great book.Well written, interesting concepts.Easy to self-teach out of.Clear and concise, well organized.I'm an engineer, and took this class as my very last elective before I graduated, and the book kept me interested.

Excellent Condition
Recieved book in excellent condition, in a timely manner, and at a reasonable price. Very satisfied with this purchase. ... Read more

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Professor of psychology Dr. Ellen Winner examines the latest scientific evidence about the biological basis of giftedness as well as the role played by parents and schools in fostering exceptional abilities. Winner castigates schools for wasting resources on weak educational programs for the moderately gifted. Instead she advocates elevating standards for all, while strengthening programs for the extremely gifted. ... Read more

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Winner is a winner!
If you are working with or parenting a highly to profoundly gifted child, you should read this book. The case studies are fascinating. Winner seamlessly weaves together anecdotes and information from Terman,Piaget,Kohlberg, and many others whose names will be familiar to those who have studied child development. Myths and Realities is absolutely stuffed with information on truly amazing children. I especially enjoyed the photos of children's art in the section on gifted artists.

A Great Gift
Have you ever had the feeling that you were different from your classmates-- that although you were in the advanced classes, you just didn't feel like you should have been there? Did you find yourself frustrated and bored because your teachers were explaining gravity, and you add to her lesson by talking about centrifugal force, and the teacher gives you a blank look? And were you one of those kids who teachers just didn't know what to do with?

I am a student getting her Master's in Early Childhood Education, and we discussed Gifted Education in our Special Needs class. I chose this book to used as a basis for a project because it seemed to be very interesting.

Not only did it inspire me to want to pursue further studies in Gifted Education, I finally recognized students like me in the book. I was not a prodigy, but I was gifted, and mislabeled by my teachers as "easily distracted," "uncooperative," and just plain mysterious. I was not scoring well in Math, so I could not be placed into the classes for gifted (whereas I tested on a senior level in Verbal abilities in the 4th grade), and so I was bored. This book helped me to understand who I was (am), and my persona was less of a mystery. My self-confidence has increased dramatically and has helped me to recognize who I am.

If you have a child in your class that you suspect may be gifted, read this book. If you think you have a child who has not been identified as gifted or whom you think may not be in classes that are at his or her instructional level, read this book. And if you are just curious, and are like me, read this book. I swear you will feel much better when you do.

Nine myths about giftedness
Gifted Children. Myths and Realities by Ellen Winner. New York: Basic Books,1996.
This book addresses nine myths about giftedness including the myth of global giftedness, the myth regarding the driving parent, the myth regarding glowing psychological health, and the myth that all gifted children become creative adults. Subsequent chapters deal in depth with each of the myths. This is not a book for a newcomer to the field, but someone who has some background, parent or educator.

a first and last book on this subject to read
For a few years now, this is the basic book I push on friends and others who want to know how those professionals who care, but who aren't pretentious and don't promise to be fix-its, see giftedness.

Such professionals want to tell you how to identify a gifted child with high confidence, and also how a gifted child differs from the general population in the course of a usual childhood.

Winner does this well.It's hard to ask for more from a basic book.

Rather than find another book on raising gifted children, one should look for those gifted adults who meet Winner's criteria, decide on their trustworthyness, and ask for their help.

Then you'll be setting up a pattern the child can follow for life, and with a next generation of gifted children. An extended family-led pattern.

To check if Winner's criteria are met, a simple trick is to teach a child to play chess.It's a game that rewards precocity, one's own drummer, and a rage to master very immediately.

Networks of kids who play chess have many kids who satisfy Winner's criteria, whose parents might want to share tips.

A small caveat to the book is that it should be updated for the Internet, which spans across school systems, to connect child to child, parent to parent, and child to adult, at low cost.

The Internet may not be better than libraries below a certain age.But after that age, a gifted child will find it on his or her own.

An Excellent Overview of the Study of Giftedness
"Gifted Children: Myths ad Realities," by Ellen Winner, is an excellent overview of what is currently known about gifted children, including their heredity, information about their early childhood, their learning patterns, their educations, and many more things. I recommend this as an introduction to the study of gifted children, or to anyone who wants to acquire a basic knowledge and understading of ths topic.
There is a good balance in this book between individual examples and case studies and more general theories and studies. The author makes her points of view on this topic manifest in many parts of this book; it is not a dry textbook that pretends to be equally accepting of all beliefs.
It also has a marvelous bibliography. I recommend to readers reading the bibliography of every chapter that you found interesting. ... Read more

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Focusing on developmental and clinical issues in children's adjustment to adoption, the authors introduce this volume with an overview of historical and contemporary perspectives, then explore various theories that have addressed the issue of psychological risk associated with adoption.

Following a review of empirical research on factors that influence the adjustment process, the authors discuss different types of adoption, analyze methodological problems, and discuss clinical and assessment issues that commonly arise in work with adoptees and their families. ... Read more

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This book presents an in-depth look at evidence-based programs for training parents of children with behavior problems. Authors Mark D. Shriver and Keith D. Allen review the empirical support for four major programs, as well as some more popular programs that lack strong empirical support. Throughout this review they teach readers how to identify the best research in parent training, how to prepare for parent training sessions, and finally show how to translate this research into everyday practice.

Parents usually are the most influential people in a child's life. So when child problems like noncompliance, hyperactivity, sleep problems, feeding problems, toileting problems, academic problems, and adolescent-parent conflict arise it is important for parents to take on the primary role in their resolution. This book explains what parents are taught when collaborating with a psychologist or counselor and how they are taught effectively. Practitioners, whether they are experienced, new to parent training, or students of the field, will find this book to be a valuable resource for taking interventions developed under tightly controlled research conditions and adapting them to the conditions of day-to-day practice, where resources are more limited and presenting problems are often more complex. ... Read more

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A guide for training parents to better deal with their children
Behavior problems with children are always a touchy subject for many, having to face the parents if they do something to offend them. "Working with Parents of Noncompliant Children: A Guide to Evidence-Based Parent Training for Practitioners and Students" is a guide for training parents to better deal with their children and their behavioral and attitude problems that so often come up. Teaching valuable techniques for any psychologist or other professional, and enhanced with appendixes, bibliographies, and more, "Working with Parents of Noncompliant Children: A Guide to Evidence-Based Parent Training for Practitioners and Students" is a must for community library psychology collections.
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David Foulkes is one of the international leaders in the empirical study of children's dreaming, and a pioneer of sleep laboratory research with children. In this book, which distills a lifetime of study, Foulkes shows that dreaming as we normally understand it--active stories in which the dreamer is an actor--appears relatively late in childhood. This true dreaming begins between the ages of 7 and 9. He argues that this late development of dreaming suggests an equally late development of waking reflective self-awareness.

Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytic over-interpretation or neurophysiological reductionism.

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Fascinating, accessible
This book questions the very deep assumptions made about dreaming by both psychologists and members of the folk at large.Apparently, according to the best available evidence -- in the form of two very detailed studies of children over decades -- dreaming requires a relatively sophisticated cognitive achievement that takes place gradually and much later than people assume.Four and five year olds, Foulkes finds reason to believe, almost never dream -- and when and if they do, their dreams are much more static and absent of human agency or emotional content than adult dreams are.

"But wait!" you say."My son or daughter sometimes wakes up from scary dreams!"Maybe.But, and here is the point: your day-to-day activities offer only anecdotal evidence, subject to various interpretations and possible biases; this is a psychological question, and psychological methodologies are those best-equipped to answer it.That's what this book is about.

Foulkes outlines his methodology and results in clear layman's terms; I am not a psychologist, but I found his descriptions and explanations compelling and lucid.Anyone interested in a real understanding of what dreaming is -- and not just what people think it is -- would do well to buy and read this book.Highly recommend.

(I should add one caveat: in addition to the fascinating and plausible conclusions Foulkes draws about dreaming, he also advertises some striking claims about consciousness.These, I think, are much less developed and convincing.But perhaps I merely misunderstood.) ... Read more

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This practical guide offers mental health professionals adetailed, step-by-step description on how to conduct Parent-ChildInteraction Therapy (PCIT) -- the empirically validated trainingprogram for parents with children who have disruptive behaviorproblems. Drawn from their own experience in treating hundreds offamilies, the authors include several illustrative examples andvignettes as well as an appendix with several assessment instrumentsto help parents to conduct PCIT. An exclusive feature of this volumeis a thorough discussion on how to teach parents to do behavioral playtherapy and to effectively implement timeout procedures with highlyaggressive preschoolers. ... Read more

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Excellent Guide for Child Therapists
I am a licensed child psychologist who specializes in parent training for young children with behavior problems. There are many excellent therapist manuals but this one stands out. It offers excellent guidance from initial assessment to treatment implementation to monitoring treatment progress and outcome. The handouts in the appendix are particularly good. Overall, the authors are very effective at integrating the best information that research and practical experience have to offer. ... Read more

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Using popular children's literature such as Alice in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh to illustrate key points, this accessible introduction to psychologist Jean Piaget's unique and groundbreaking ideas guides readers through the fascinating world of a growing child's mind and shows adults how to create an environment that will enhance and accelerate a child's intellectual development. Cartoon illustrations. ... Read more

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Good insight into Piaget.
Piaget's theories are complex and hard to understand without interpretation. This is exactly the book I needed as it was advertised. Often Piaget's words were of his own coining...since he was a pioneer in child development....or he uses different
definitions not available in a dictionary. Also, this book uses examples from children's literature to illustrate points. Excellent resource.

At last!
At last, Piaget's concepts are presented in an enjoyable, memorable manner. For decades, teachers have drilled themselves on mastering the concepts of this famous psychologist as they diligently sought to help children make the most of their capacities to learn. This author explains many of Jean Piaget's ideas by using examples from children's literature. It's even illustrated with cartoons. Writers for children have used this book to help them connect their writing to memories of how they thought as children.

Accessible Piaget
This is a very nice book that uses children's literature, popular comics, and very good writing to demystify Piaget for beginners.I tried to read parts of Piaget's How a Child Thinks and had to put it down.The authors recognize the difficulty in reading Piaget's original works and have written this book for non psychology students.This was a very useful book for a research paper on Piaget for a special education graduate course.

Clever use of comics and stories for illustration
Piaget is the most influential figure in child psychology ever known. However, it can be rather daunting to plough through his monumental works. So we have books like A Piaget Primer that come to our rescue-books that help to explain the concepts in simpler, more reader-friendly terms. Of course, we cannot expect such books to do justice to the scope and breadth of the original works, but for a thin volume like A Piaget Primer, it has done reasonably well to introduce the most essential concepts of Piaget's theory on child development. Among the essential ideas are assimilation and accommodation, various stages of development, play, language development, number concept, and moral development. There is also a last chapter on the implications and applications of Piagetian theory in the education of our young. What I find most impressive about this volume is its witty use of comics such as Peanut and stories such as Alice in the Wonderland to illustrate many of the confusing concepts. Wish I had this book when I was doing my psychology course.

Wonderful book!
The author provides very clear explanations of Piaget's theory of thought and play. Complete with comic strips about children, this book is a must for new teachers who are learning about Piaget and also for parents who donot know how children think and learn thru' play. You won't want to put thebook down after picking it up, because the contents are so simple yetinteresting. ... Read more