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"A monumentally important book for anyone who wants to understand their colleagues, their loved ones-and their very own selves." -Susan Cain, author of the New York Times bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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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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In luminous prose, novelist and psychologist Charles Fernyhough explains how children develop from squalling babies into walking, talking toddlers.

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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.

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She made possible the extension of psycho-analysis to the field of early childhood, and in this way not only made the treatment of young children possible but also threw new light on psychological development in childhood and on the roots of adult neuroses and psychoses.

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Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses ...magic forests and enchanted towers ...little pigs and big bad wolves ...Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But what do they really mean This book presents an exploration of the best-known fairy stories.

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Covers subjects such as child and adolescent development, parenting skills, problems at school, emotional health and wellbeing. This book looks specifically at some of the most distressing problems that young people face, including anxiety and stress disorders, drugs, alcohol, self-harm and psycho-sexual development.

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In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived. This bizarre event signaled the beginning of Lenore Terr's landmark study on the effect of trauma on children. In this book Terr shows how trauma has affected not only the children she's treated but all of us.

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Why we need a daily dose of touch: an investigation of the effects of touch on our physical and mental well-being.

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A complete guide to child development from birth to 16 years.

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Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.