5 Oct, 2011

The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children and Helping Them Heal Helps raise confidence, increases social skillsPresents information on various anxiety disorders Anxiety in children decreases their intellectual, emotional, and social development, as well as physical health. Author Paul Foxman believes there are three interacting ingredients that contribute to anxiety in children — biological sensitivity, personality, and stress overload. The Worried Child shows that anxiety is preventable — or can be minimized — by raising children’s self-confidence, increasing social and self-control skills, and teaching them how to play, relax, and communicate their feelings and needs….. Click Here to Read More
4 Oct, 2011

Contextual risk and parenting as predictors of effortful control and social competence in preschool children This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Using a short-term longitudinal design (6 months), this study examined cumulative contextual risk as a predictor of effortful control (EC) and social competence in a community sample of children (N=80, ages 33-40 months at time 1). Maternal parenting was examined as a mediator of contextual…. Click Here to Read More
1 Oct, 2011

Cognition in Children Best Prices Textbooks.com Marketplace$ 12.07+ $ 3.99…. Click Here to Read More
29 Sep, 2011
A few Children Psychology products I can recommend: Growing Up Children How to Get 5 – 12 Year Olds Behave and Do As Theyre Told provides a practical down-to-earth strategy Growing Up Children Helping Children With Dyslexia Ebook Sir Richard Branson wrote the foreword, It is the first book that allows parents to tackle their child’s dyslexia head on. It provides practical solution on how to deal with schoools and gives parents an instant action plan to follow. Helping Children With Dyslexia…. Click Here to Read More
26 Sep, 2011

Endangered Children: Homicide and Other Crimes, Second Edition (Pacific Institute Series on Forensic Psychology) People are horrified when parents kill their children, yet this act occurs daily on a global basis. Endangered Children: Neonaticide, Infanticide and Filicide, Second Edition provides a psychological, sociological, and criminological perspective of these acts, as the authors answer the many questions that arise from these crimes.With an emphasis on neonaticide in terms of motives, alternatives, defenses offered, and penalties imposed, this book will be of interest to everyone from social workers to attorneys. A secondary area of focus is infanticide and filicide, again with…. Click Here to Read More
21 Sep, 2011

Children With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (Child Psychology) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a major psychiatric disorder affecting more than four million Americans. OCD is a strange and serious sickness of ritual and doubt run wild and is much more common than formerly believed. There may be more than one million Americans younger than 18 years of age with this disorder. OCD is also an adult illness. Between one-third and one-half of adult cases of OCD have their onset in childhood. Obsessions and compulsions vary in frequency and intensity. Many individuals have habits that cause minimal or no disruption in their lives. However, when the thoughts and rituals of OCD are…. Click Here to Read More
19 Sep, 2011

John Stossel, reporting for ABC News’ 20/20, shows pictures of white and non-white men to 3 groups of day camp children and asks “Who do you like better ?”. The majority of the children respond in a similar manner. Broadcast Date: September 15,…. Click Here to Read More
18 Sep, 2011
DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire life span. This field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other psycho-physiological processes; cognitive development involving areas such as problem solving, moral understanding, and conceptual understanding; language acquisition;…. Click Here to Read More
12 Sep, 2011

by ATIS547 Violence against Children Article by Sheryar Ahsan Khan Violence against children has always been a concern worldwide especially in the third world. The purpose of this article is to know what constitutes or amounts to violence and what can be done to prevent it from happening.The word violence means to assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.Is the use of physical force against persons that potentially causes fear, injury or death. Damage, in some contexts, is also considered a form of violence.The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.The intentional use of physical force or…. Click Here to Read More
8 Sep, 2011

Behavior Problems in Preschool Children, Second Edition: Clinical and Developmental Issues This volume provides a comprehensive clinical-developmental framework for understanding and treating behavior problems in early childhood. Susan B. Campbell offers a highly readable account of the developmental tasks and transitions that young children face in cognitive, social, and family domains, and examines why and what happens when development goes awry. Particular attention is given to the critical question of how certain children manage to successfully overcome difficult transitions, while others face the risk of serious, ongoing problems. Empirically supported prevention and treatment…. Click Here to Read More
21 Aug, 2011

by romana klee No real damage enuresis in children Article by Aki Many children wet the bed not because of injury or malformation of the body but due to psychological factors. Common disease in children lacking personality, shy, and afraid to communicate with family conflicts.Approximately 20% of children with bedwetting problems, mental health, especially for young girls and wet the bed both day and night. With no real damage bedwetting children, parents often do not know what to bring to the examinations and treatment where, any specialty. Bed-wetting child is not treated early often have not developed a good personality, there is psychological stress, anxiety, sadness,…. Click Here to Read More
19 Aug, 2011

by romana klee Military Schools for Struggling Children in Nevada Article by Kshitiz Mahajan There are numbers of families suffering from poor relations with troubled children. Their disobedient kids don’t listen and respect them. Teenagers suffering from behavioral, emotional and psychological problems need special treatments, before and after care programs for successful recovery. It has been seen that if parents find their kids to be involved in uncommon activity or negative interests they respond very strictly. It makes troubled adolescents more opponent and rude. It is very important for the parents to decide best of the programs for unmotivated child. If the teenagers are on…. Click Here to Read More