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Alphabet Kids have disorders that are often concurrent, interconnected or mistaken for one another: for example, the frequent combination of ASD, OCD, SID and ADHD. Woliver covers 70 childhood disorders, providing information on causes, cures, treatments and prognoses. Chapters include a list of signs and symptoms, and true-life stories.

Presents a way to strengthen the relationship with the child that simultaneously promotes the parent's own emotional healing and wellness. This book gives parents the skills that they need to begin to set aside special playtimes with their children, during which the process of simply 'being there' in a way that promotes healing, and growth.

Jo Frost comes to the toddler rescue in this essential companion to her No. 1 bestseller, CONFIDENT TODDLER CARE.

Drawing together social and medical history and literary studies, this book shows that medieval and early modern men and women had to negotiate a conflict between opposing cultural ideologies wanting them to procreate and yet remain virginal.

Suitable for parents who need advice from experts, without the jargon and generalizations, this book provides strategies and techniques for children who are intense, highly reactive, and unable to self-calm. It integrates various treatment approaches, and offers the "best kept secrets" from the fields of mental health and occupational therapy.

A guide for men that shows how to be a good dad and a supportive partner. It deals with the issues and the stresses that fathers can face, and looks at the psychological research on child development, parenting, and fathering in particular. It examines topics such as step-fatherhood, changing relationship between partners, and sex after babies.

Observing the brain while in action provides rich information on the behavior of teenagers giving us insight into their emotional and cognitive state. This book combines research from neuroscience and psychology along with common sense and humor to offer parents important strategies to support and guide their teenager.

One man's jouney down the road less travelled - a single gay man adopting and raising his adopted sons. Details the emotional, financial, practical, and social realities of the adoption process for gay men.

Drawing on personal and professional experience, it is the definitive account of modern reproductive technology from a practitioner who has spent his professional life at the forefront of this most fascinating and emotive area of science.

Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum offers strategies for helping children, whatever their ability level, through the changes of the teenage years, and prepares them for adulthood. Using clear examples, practical advice, and supportive insights, it covers how to help teenagers understand puberty and hygiene;

Correcting misconceptions through profiles of diverse families, Rivero uncovers the changing and complex needs of children today. This book addresses the major questions parents are bound to have as they consider the homeschooling option: socialization, curriculum, special needs arrangements, resources, and more.

This concise book contains everything that parents and professionals need to know about ADHD. The author describes the spectrum of ADHD, the co-occurring symptoms, and common difficulties that parents face. The rest of the book focuses on solutions. The role of medication is discussed. The concluding chapter summarizes the information covered.

It offers self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child with emotional and behavioural problems. As well as guidance and ideas to help parents understand their child's problems and learn to distinguish between normal disruption and that which warrants professional treatment.

The personal and emotional stories related in this work realistically illustrate both the positive and negative aspects of adoption. The varied characters and events of each story address many of the unique situations presented by adoption.

Today's children cannot avoid a constant stream of images and accounts of frightening events: wars, terrorist attacks, school shootings, and the threat of nuclear and biological attacks. The omnipresence of the media means that children are intimately exposed to suffering and trauma in a way not experienced by earlier generations.

Can parents send their children to private schools and still live up to their ideals? Can you be a good citizen and a good parent? These difficult questions, and many more, are raised and answered in this insightful and thought-provoking book.

Presents an introduction to child development concepts and the development of anger, examining how hostility and aggression impact the family and illustrating the effects of resistance and oppositional behavior. This book focuses on practical aspects of anger management, including: attachment issues, and antisocial behavior.

This new edition brings up to date the relevant and jargon free information of the best-selling first edition. The authors dispel many of the myths surrounding this puzzling and complex disorder.

Developed from training courses run by the two authors on the subject of dealing with bullying in schools, this book is designed to work as a training manual. It is geared towards the needs of the class teacher, the school management team, the bullied, the bullies and the parents of both parties.

Helps strike the balance between bolstering self-esteem and offering constructive advice. Drawing on her study, Project EAT (Eating Among Teenagers), and her experience as a mother of four, the author offers ideas for instilling healthy eating and exercise habits, educating teens about nutrition and portion size, and talking about body image.

106 Ways Parents Can Help Student Achieve provides a wide array of easy-to-do, parent-tested activities that support student achievement for students at all grade levels. If you'd like a Set of 10 for classroom use, order using ISBN 978-0-8108-4220-5

EuroAmerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. This book argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of 'perinatal mortality' referring to death of either the foetus or the newborn just prior to, during or after birth.

A book of fun activities from the Forest School to get your children outdoors to explore, make things, learn about nature and help them grow up happy and healthy.

The up-to-the-minute word on what's hot and what's not in baby names.

Offers parents, educators, social workers, and those interested in multiracial issues with a framework for understanding healthy mixed-race identity development and to translate those findings into practical care-giving strategies.

From the author of the worldwide bestseller Raising Boys, this bind-up of the parenting classics The Secret of Happy Children and More Secrets of Happy Children by parenting expert and child psychologist Steve Biddulph tells parents everything they need to know about raising happy, healthy, confident children from babyhood to teens.

Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children.