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  • Human Security

    Some Reflections

    by W.E. Blatz ...
    Series series Heritage
    During his lifetime, W.E. Blatz was so much occupied with the development of the University of Toronto’s Institute of Child Study that he was able to devote little time to writing. This is his first book to appear in twenty-one years, and his first complete exposition of his famous Theory of Security.The Theory of Security is radically different from the theories promulgated by Freudian ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Never in Anger

    Portrait of an Eskimo Family

    In the summer of 1963, anthropologist Jean Briggs journeyed to the Canadian Northwest Territories (now Nunavut) to begin a seventeen-month field study of the Utku, a small group of Inuit First Nations people who live at the mouth of the Back River, northwest of Hudson Bay. Living with a family as their “adopted” daughter—sharing their iglu during the winter and pitching her tent next to theirs in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mon enfant et ses dessins

    Le langage des symboles

    Mon enfant et ses dessins s’applique à montrer, à travers des dessins d’enfant, leurs conversations et leurs inventions diverses, l’importance de leur vie symbolique dans toutes leurs productions. Le lecteur, surpris peut-être de la richesse rencontrée à chaque instant dans les paroles de ces enfants, sera-t-il conduit à prêter, à leurs propos, une oreille plus attentive ? ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • So the Witch Won't Eat Me

    Fantasy and the Child's Fear of Infanticide

    by Dorothy Bloch ...
    In So the Witch Won't Eat Me Bloch draws on 25 years of psychoanalytic practice. Her book is both a summary of her experience as a therapist and a disclosure of what she has learned about the inner workings of the human mind. She believes that the fear of infanticide, which originates in our vulnerability as infants, is later compounded by the magical thinking that leads us as children to blame ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • L'enfant

    Pourquoi s’intéresser à l’enfant dans la littérature française et, en particulier, dans le roman ? Jusqu’au 19e siècle, la littérature française ne fait guère de place aux enfants. Dans la seconde moitié de ce siècle, les enfants apparaissent dans de nombreux romans, c’est de ce changement qu’est témoin notre littérature. Les travaux présentés ici sont d’une grande diversité de genre, de méthode ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Things

    Domestic Symbols and the Self

    The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Why Delinquency?

    Series series Heritage
    In this lucid, original, and provocative study, Professor Cusson advances a theory of delinquent behaviour that is both disarming and convincing. Delinquent behaviour, he reminds us, is fairly widespread among young people of all classes and backgrounds – it is not it is not, as some would like to believe, exclusively a lower-class phenomenon. Most adolescents, at one time or another, commit acts ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Learning How to Learn

    For almost a century, educational theory and practice have been influenced by the view of behavioural psychologists that learning is synonymous with behaviour change. In this book, the authors argue for the practical importance of an alternate view, that learning is synonymous with a change in the meaning of experience. They develop their theory of the conceptual nature of knowledge and describe ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Spinning Inward

    If you have ever wished you could show children and teenagers how to enrich their lives with meditation and visualization, this book will delight you. It presents simple exercises in guided imagery designed to help young people ages three through eighteen to relax into learning, focus attention and increase concentration, stimulate creativity, and cultivate inner peace and group harmony.The use of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Childhood

    A Study of the Growing Child

    The author traces human development through childhood. She describes the spirit and soul as the child incarnates and how the individual comes to expression in various ways, including the particular temperament; the unique formative forces that give shape to the physical body; the development of consciousness; natural transitions in the child's life; and the child's destiny and relationship to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Children of Alcoholism

    The Struggle for Self and Intimacy in Adult Life

    In this sensitive and richly rewarding book Barbara L. Wood, a clinician with many years' experience working with adult children of the chemically dependent, gives clinicians informed and practical advice on how to treat the damaged self of these individuals. She offers strategies for intervention, along with step-by-step principles that tell the therapist how best to create an environment to help ... Read more

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  • Encountering the Self

    Transformation & Destiny in the Ninth Year

    It is between the ages of nine and ten that children begin to experience themselves as "I" for the first time--as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers and essentially alone. This inner experience is sometimes precipitated by the child's first encounter with death and the first notion that earthly life is fragile and temporary.In this insightful book, Koepke offers the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Spiritual Life of Children

    by Robert Coles ...
    **A look at faith through the voices of children from varied religious backgrounds, by the Pulitzer-winning author of The Moral Intelligence of Children.A New York Times Notable Book**What do children think about when they consider God, Heaven and Hell, the value of life in the here and now, and the inevitability of death? Child psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Harvard professor ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Motivating Humans

    Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs

    Motivating Humans represents an excellent integration of different motivational constructs. . . . The main purpose of Ford′s book and his theory, motivational systems theory (MST), is to provide an integrative and coherent model of motivation that synthesizes the various constructs from the different theories into one comprehensive framework. . . . It represents an important addition to the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Behavior Analysis of Child Development

    First published in 1961, Sidney Bijou's Behavior Analysis of Child Development is a seminal work in the field of child development. Intended for the student with a limited background in psychology who is embarking on a study of child development, the book offers a concise introduction to the natural scientific approach to child psychology. It defines basic behavioral terms and principles, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Psychotherapy With Children of Divorce

    A comprehensive treatise on the dynamic and adaptive problems which children and families encounter in their experiences of separation and divorce. The book offers guidelines for therapeutic treatment of these problems. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Childhood and Society

    The landmark work on the social significance of childhood.The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals' growth and historical change, his now-famous concepts of identity, growth, and the life cycle, have changed the way we perceive ourselves and society. Widely read and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Family Therapy in Clinical Practice

    by Murray Bowen ...
    When Bowen was a student and practitioner of classical psychoanalysis at the Menninger Clinic, he became engrossed in understanding the process of schizophrenia and its relationship to mother-child symbiosis. Between the years 1950 and 1959, at Menninger and later at the National Institute of Mental Health (as first chief of family studies), he worked clinically with over 500 schizophrenic ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Play Therapy in Action

    A Casebook for Practitioners

    This book brings together in a single volume concrete applications of play therapy by seasoned clinicians from various theoretical perspectives. The goal is to reflect the broad spectrum of approaches that now exist in the field. The major psychopathologies in children present the therapist with different problems and therefore require different approaches. Another guiding belief underlying this ... Read more

    $181.99 USD

  • Adult Personality Development

    Volume 1: Theories and Concepts

    Why do we, as adults, have the personality characteristics we do? No one explanation is accepted by all; however, in this greatly expanded version of his earlier book, Personality Development in Adulthood, Wrightsman helps us understand and organize the three broad theoretical approaches to explain psychological changes during the period from adolescence to the onset of late adulthood. Each of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • How to Help Children with Common Problems

    In this immensely practical manual, two leading child psychologists provide specific, down-to-earth advice for effectively handling the everyday problems of children from early childhood through adolescence. ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Handbook for Treatment of Attachment Problems in C

    An Historical Compendium of Pitching, Pitchers, an

    by Beverly James ...
    Attachment Disorder occurs when a child has difficulty establishing new attachments if old ones are severely disrupted, and it is typically seen in victims of various types of trauma. This text seeks to explain how best to treat these children so that they can love and trust again and form lasting relationships. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Family Play Therapy

    Play therapy and family therapy both are well established therapeutic paradigms. Often, however, play therapists have minimal contact with the nuclear family of which their child patient is a member. Similarly, family therapists frequently view young children as disruptive and exclude them from family sessions. By combining both play and family treatment modalities as this unique book Family Play ... Read more

    $111.99 USD

  • Advances in Child Development and Behavior

    Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 25 offers perspectives on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD