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"Presents a teen-level view of stresses and joys behind digital screens, including peer relationships, conflict, digital footprints, and civic life"--

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Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller pleads for awareness of society's role in child abuse and for recognition of the victim.

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An interdisciplinary group of scholars from the fields of psychology, communication, sociology and linguistics examine the effect of media experiences on children's social, cognitive, familial and consumerist experiences. Social policy implications of media effects are also considered.

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"A novel attempt to explain why teens and adults often struggle with scientific explanation even thought young children clearly possess impressive causal reasoning skills"--

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Brings together some of the author's works contributing to our understanding of the minds of children. This title includes essays that range in topic from 'The Concept of a Healthy Individual' and 'The Value of Depression' to 'Delinquancy as a sign of Hope'.

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An exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridley's The Red Queen and Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct.

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A book where John Holt uses anecdotal observations that question assumptions about how children acquire knowledge and learning skills.

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How children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes.

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In this third and final volume John Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his much acclaimed work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health.

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Demonstrates the growth of Klein's work and ideas between 1921-45. Papers range from her early preoccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development, to her final paper on the Oedipus complex - the basis for her conceptualizing of the paranoid-schizoid position in young babies.

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The book that started the computer revolution in education -- updated for a new generation.

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This indispensable book will help you help your child face their anxieties and develop problem-solving strategies.

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The first years of human life are more important than we ever realized. Karr-Morse connects psychology, neurobiology, endocrinology, immunology, and genetics to demonstrate how chronic fear in infancy and early childhood--when we are most helpless--lies at the root of common diseases in adulthood.

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Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and development revolutionized the treatment of the young. This book offers an overview of her entire career, displaying the richness, variety and originality of her thinking.

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Surely, Shirley is a book about not knowing. Shirley finds it difficult when things become uncertain. She talks about her worries and explores new ways to deal with the challenge of uncertainty.

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Your child doesn't need a perfect parent, but a present one. Amy and Jeffrey Olrick draw on experience, research, and Jeffrey's work as a child psychologist to help parents discover the power of relational connection. With compassion, faith, and humor, The 6 Needs of Every Child offers insight and tools that will sustain your child for a lifetime.

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Outlining a five-step plan that parents can use to help their children achieve lifelong happiness, the co-author of Driven to Distraction emphasizes the role of connection, play, practice, mastery, and recognition in raising youngsters with a healthy self-esteem, moral awareness, and spiritual value

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"Written for therapists and those whose lives have been touched by autism, this book by Mira Rothenberg, a psychotherapist who changed the face of treatment for autism in the 1950s, provides a personal account of the summer of 1958, when she and two colleagues successfully treated twelve severely disturbed children on an island in upstate New York."--Provided by publisher"

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Multidisciplinary perspectives on the cultural and evolutionary foundations of children's attachment relationships and on the consequences for education, counseling, and policy.

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Looks at how fear, and other such uncomfortable emotions as shame and anxiety, becomes a key factor in shaping our lives in a negative fashion and explains how to overcome fear to accomplish our best in love, work, and life.

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Friendship issues top the list of parents concerns. Unkind or exclusive behaviour appears to be starting sooner than ever even at nursery. Tanith Carey analyses the increasingly complex social pressures changing the face of childhood and offers solutions for building your childs social skills for a happier, more carefree childhood.

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What may happen now that so many more children are denied exposure to wilderness than at any other time in human history

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Explains psychological, neuroscientific, and philosophical developments in our understanding of very young children, transforming our understanding of how babies see the world, and in turn promoting a deeper appreciation for the role of parents.