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Information on the special needs and natures of twins and multiples is often difficult for professionals to obtain. Twin and Triplet Psychology fills this gap, helping professionals to be better-equipped to offer advice to parents and twins alike.
Examining the psychology of twinship throughout the lifespan, the book includes chapters on:
* twins in-utero temperament development and inter-twin behaviour before and after birth
* antenatal and postnatal influences on family relationships
* twins with special needs
* the death of a twin
* twins in secondary school and adolescence.
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twin and triplet psychology
Being I twin myself there were many elements that I recognised in this book. However, some of the more important aspects of the psychlogy of twins were not given enough attention in this book. The need for separateidentities is the most important of these. Especially since this book isaimed at those who work with multiples, a dedicated chapteron this aspectshould have been included.

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In this book, Dr Richard Gardner traces the development of child psychotherapeutic techniques in the 20th century and presents the central elements in the psychotherapeutic process. The work is a compendium of the basic principles of Richard Gardner's psychotherapeutic approaches. It contains useful information derived from 35 years of dedication to the treatment of children. ... Read more

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This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings. Leading researchers and practitioners from diverse and international backgrounds offer critical commentary on these previously unpublished findings gathered from both field and laboratory research. Cross-cultural, clinical, and multi-disciplinary perspectives are provided. The goal is to learn more about why children frequently remain silent about their abuse, deny it, or if they do disclose, do so belatedly and incompletely, often recanting their allegations over time.
 
The book opens with a close examination of the existing literature on disclosure and the difficulties in conducting such research. It then examines the individual and contextual factors that determine whether, when, and how childhood sexual abuse is disclosed. This portion reviews how the interview techniques have a profound impact on disclosure patterns. Details of how reluctant children are interviewed are included. The third section examines the broader implications of disclosure for the child, family and peers, and for the suspect. Child Sexual Abuse examines how the interview strategies influence how, when, or if children disclose abuse, by examining both domestic and international data and by analyzing detailed interviews with children.
 
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Great resource for counselors who are interviewing children!
This book has a lot to offer for people who are interested in child sexual abuse.It was well written and reflected a significant amount of research. ... Read more

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Introducing Child Psychology is for all those who want to find out what psychology can tell us about the nature and development of children.

• A non-technical introduction for all those who want to find out what psychology can tell us about the nature and development of children.
  
• Presents the major topics of child development investigated by psychologists.
  
• Pays particular attention to the most recent research findings.
  
• Consistently relates psychological knowledge to practical situations, showing what psychology has to offer in real life situations involving children.
  
• Learning is supported by study boxes, summaries, definitions and suggestions for further reading.

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Ideal for both novices and advanced practitioners, the new edition of Stanley Greenspan’s classic guide outlines a practical process for observing and interviewing children—and organizing and interpreting their unfolding communications.

Unique and highly acclaimed, The Clinical Interview of the Child uses actual interviews with children to show readers how to apply a developmental, biopsychosocial framework for understanding the inner lives of children at different ages and stages. It outlines proven techniques for helping infants and children to reveal their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors during the clinical interview. Finally, it shows readers how to organize and interpret the interview data by constructing a developmental profile and translating it into DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories.

The third edition has been expanded and revised extensively, with updated theoretical and conceptual foundations; information on higher levels of ego development and reflective and thinking capacities of older children; and a new section on a developmental biopsychosocial model—the developmental, individual-difference, relationship-based (DIR) approach.

An invaluable educational and practical resource, The Clinical Interview of the Child, Third Edition, is an ideal tool for psychiatrists and psychologists, pediatricians, educators, social workers, and judges and attorneys dealing with children and families. ... Read more

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Psychodynamic only
This book will be good if you are interested in psychodynamic, unstructured interview technique and assessment.If your orientation is towards another counseling theory, this book will be less useful. ... Read more

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The Difficult Child : Expanded and Revised Edition (Paperback)by Stanley Turecki (Author), Leslie Tonner (Co-Author)

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The Difficult Child : Expanded and Revised Edition (Paperback)by Stanley Turecki (Author), Leslie Tonner (Contributor)

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Ehhh there are more choices out there
I was recommended this book by a family friend. It is a very generalized book that doesn't offer you real scenarios and how to put things into practice. I didn't find it helpful at all. I ordered The Pocket Parent and am loving it.

Very helpful
My mother read this book 25 years ago when it came out because my sister was a difficult child.It changed our family.It gave my mother a different perspective, a framework, for understanding my sister and it helped her to be more empathic and not to take my sister's behavior personally.At the time everyone criticized my mother and her parenting."There's nothing wrong with your child" (implied: it must be you).This book empowered my mom.There are some simple suggestions, i.e. making a "goody plate" for the picky eater, which my mom was able to implement with success.Long story short, this book improved our family relations and helped my mom manage my sister in a loving way.My sister is a successful adult now with a healthy self-esteem.She still has her temperamental difficulties at times, but we love her!
Today I, myself, have a difficult child and my mother shared this book with me.My son is 3 and a 1/2 years old and has been difficult from birth.This book has truly brightened my outlook. I work in the mental health field as a psychiatric social worker and do not feel my son meets criteria for a major diagnosis.This book, however, gave me a context for understanding him more.It gave me such relief just to know we are not alone in our struggles and that he is not a bad boy.I feel more confident sharing and venting with other moms now.I don't feel ashamed that I am somehow an incompetent parent or that there's something wrong with my son.He is a sweet, loving, intelligent, funny little guy who happens to have a quirky, difficult temperament.I truly appreciate Dr. Turecki's philosophy in viewing our children as "normal".I am confident that my son's persistence will someday bring him great success in life.
I think this book is a great foundation if you have a difficult child.It offers some great ideas for simple changes in your child's life that could have big impact, if you have not already done these things.However, I don't imagine most cases will be fully reigned in just by reading this.We are actually fortunate to live in NY and were able to get an appt w/ Dr. Turecki himself.We are very much looking forward to it.I would suggest some type of follow-up like that, with a child psychiatrist or behavioral pediatrician.I would make sure they are familiar with this book.Many M.D.s these days are quick to label kids w/ ADHD and push meds.Do your own research!You know your kid the best!Good luck and may peace be with you.

our pediatrician recommended
One of the main reasons we chose our pediatrician was that his specialty is child behavior.By age 3, my son was exhibiting some mildly "difficult" tendencies.Our pediatrician recommended this book.

The Difficult Child
This is the most fantastic book if you are having troubles with your child. It helps to see why your child acts the ways they do and how to adjust your reaction and their attitude in a non confrontational way. I bought this book many years ago for myself and now purchased for my daughter who has a difficult child. I would highly recommend this book.

A Real Dragon-Slayer
Often I find that the universe seems to hand me just the book I need when I need it most, and this would be case in point.By the time my daughter was two, I'd worked my way through stacks:the high-need stuff, the strong-willed stuff, the highly-sensitive, the challenging, the high-I.Q., the out-of-synch, the spirited--so much, yet I stopped short of reading "The Difficult Child" because I decided, after reading a couple nasty-spirited books, that I wouldn't read anything with a negative title; semantics mattered, and "challenging" was OK, but "difficult" was not.Ironic, of course, given the fact that Turecki's approach is admirably complex and quite brilliant on temperament, compassionate, humanistic , and attuned to children as individuals.So I was stuck with the marshmallow fluff of "Spirited Child" instead of this meaty one, which of all the books I've read, seems best to "get it" in a wholistic sense.Turecki gets it!He gets that temperament is present at birth; most books on discipline refuse to discuss the child under six, which mystifies me, because if you have a truly challenging child, you're desperate before they turn 6 months.He understands the social isolation, the family complexities, the ever-augmenting dimensions of irony and complexity and difficulty, the maternal and marital pressure.So why did I finally pick up this book?Upon the birth of a second child, I no longer had the leisure of my idealism; if there had been a book titled "Coping With Your Spawn of Satan" I would have picked it up--if I'd had time to read.

Here's why this book is a real "dragon-slayer":Even the most un-neurotic, level-headed, intelligent parent--who knows better!--will at times question whether her robust yet difficult-to-raise child is perhaps brain-damaged (that glass of Champagne I drank at my cousin's wedding during the first trimester!Heavens!), suffering from an undiagnosed mood disorder, in need of special education or therapy or medication or acupuncture.Turecki begins his book with a quiz based on the following tempermant traits:high-activity level, impulsivity, distractibility, high-intensity, irregularity, negative persistence, low sensory threshold, initial withdrawal, poor adaptability, negative mood.I rated my daughter as moderate to extremely high in all categories, which would make her a mother-killer, and that's not including something Turecki leaves out--intellectual giftedness--which adds another dimension.

Here's why I'm glad I didn't read Turecki's book when she was a baby:I adopted an "attachment parenting" philosophy in reaction to her extreme difficulty, including co-sleeping, extended and on-demand breastfeeding, complete access to my person (in six years, I've not been apart from my daughter for an over-night or even more than a few hours).I got into it; it expanded my consciousness, you know, John Holt saying, "Listen to your child as you yourself were not listened to," and the idea that meeting the deepest needs of babies with a YES means their deepest needs are met for a lifetime.I was deeply transformed as a person and mother; if I'd had tools to maintain control--Ha!-- perhaps that wouldn't have happened.And here's what happened:it worked!Attachment parenting worked so well, in fact, that rather ironically, my daughter's difficulty was masked from all but those closest to her, which in a way added to the insanity of the situation my husband and I found ourselves in, as we were worn ragged meeting the needs of our sensitive tyrant, who just seemed shy and sweet to others.Turecki's book is divided into two parts, the theory of temperament (my favorite) and The Plan, which I would have hated when my daughter was a toddler; I'd probably have thrown the book across the room.Though Turecki tries to remain neutral, he's clearly baffled by the "attachment" folks.I still believe in that stuff, but I also believe in change--children grow, and new ways of relating need to come into being in response.

My daughter recently started elementary school in an accelerated public school classroom, which is highly-structured, disciplined and small.I didn't hope for much and saw it as the least bad of bad choices...but my daughter...loves it...and seems to be thriving.I'm baffled, especially as preschool was a nightmare of separation anxiety, topped off by a round of observations by our local special ed program, as the teacher wondered if my intense, creative, brilliant child, who refused to make eye contact with her or speak to her, might be autistic.So, I'll explore Turecki's methods, which are behavioral, tempered with knowledge of temperament, and which emphasize the importance of structure for the child with a difficult temperament.Here is my point:implementing such structure simply would not have worked when my daughter was a baby.I found Turecki's chapter on infants laughable, though I think he's right that colic is temperamental in origin.I likewise found his scenarios/profiles demonstrating how to implement consistent, effective response a bit simplistic.But I am inspired about the possibilities of regaining authority, maintaining neutrality and distancing myself from negative patterns.
(*) I'm going to add a comment almost a year after writing this review.My daughter was recently diagnosed with asthma and off-the-chart allergies to wheat, dairy & eggs, and my naturopathic physician says that in her experience, this trio of allergies corresponds to neurological symptoms, such as anxiety, ADHD, schizophrenia, autism.I'm hopeful that avoidance of allergens for a year, combined with herbal support drops, probiotics, etc. will help abate obsessive thinking, anxiety, etc.There is a deep history of allergies and neuroloigcal symptoms on my husband's side, and I also find it interesting that giftedness is sometimes linked with allergies and asthma.For what it's worth...such topics are not addressed in the book and may be at the root of the matter. ... Read more

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This is the first book to provide objective methods for establishing that a child has been brainwashed by one parent against another. It is based on a ten-year study of 700 cases in the authors' counseling and evaluative work with children of divorced couples.

In clear, straightforward language you will learn about:-- The eight stages of programming and brainwashing: what happens during each stage, the various players and their targets-- Identifying brainwashing techniques: 12 brainwashing syndromes – how they work and strategies for dealing with them-- Uncovering motives and strategies: identifying the driving force – the manipulator’s purpose, rationale, and tactics-- Interviewing children: what to listen for, the questions to ask, and a chart of childrens’ typical statements and what they indicate about the presence of brainwashing-- Determining the type, extent, and degree of social-psychological impact on the child, incuding diagnostic demonstrations and clues-- Intervention: countering the destructive effects on the child – the techniques and methods, whit their risks and limitations

It’s a terrible fact: custody disputes often devolve into guerilla warfare, in which the child is subverted by one parent and turned as a weapon against the other.Children Held Hostage equips you with the understanding and practical direction needed to protect the child and the targeted parent from the results of brainwashing. ... Read more

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The Jewel in the Crown
At the present time, I easily rate this ABA Section of Family Law book as the "jewel in the crown" of all of the currently limited -but reapidly increasing - number of books in this rapidly emerging field of knowledge about a subject that is coming to be called the "parental alienation syndrome," a term coined by Dr. Richard A. Garner.

Unfortunately, this very early book on the subject of "parental alienation syndrome" does not use the "parental alienation syndrome" term.Although this book was published two decades ago, the superlaitve text of this excellent book has never been revised, although the book remains in print.However, if I were to revise this book, the one change I would make in its text is to include the term "parental alienation syndrome" - I suspect that the absense of the "parental alienation syndrome" phrase from the text of this book may be preventing people from becoming aware of this trully indispensible book, particularly for "alienated" parents, typically fathers, who become victims of the "alienating" parent.

I am very disheartened by the fact that AMAZON.com indicates that this wonderful and indispensible book has only been cited in two other books, which indicaes to me that authors in this field are not utilizing and may not be aware of this American Bar Association Section of Family Law book.

Although this book considers the alienation process within the context of child custody cases, I experienced this proceeses long before I became separated from my wife, and this was the only item of contention between my wife and myself throughout our marriage.The analytical diagnostic factors identified in this book are extremely useful for professionals engaged in the field of marital counseling between spouses.

The "parental alienation syndrome" is a young and emerging field, and appears to be powerfully publicized by Dr. Richard A. Gardner, the most prolfic and recognized author in this field.I have only read Ricard A. Garner's book entitled THE PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME, but I have Dr. Garner's other books on order.

At the present time, I am inclined to say that if I had only one book on the parental alienation syndrome, I would choose CHILDREN HELD HOSTAGE: DEALING WITH PROGRAMMED AND BRAINWASHED CHILDREN.However, after saying that, I would also note that Richard A. Gardner's book not only complements the American Bar Association book, but is as indispensible as the ABA book.

One disturbing fact I noted about Richard A. Gardner's THE PARENTAL ALIENATION SYNDROME is that CHILDREN HELD HOSTAGE: DEALING WITH PROGRAMMED AND BRAINWASHED CHILDREN is not included in Richard A. Gardner's bibliogaphy in this book, a glaring omission which makes me wonder whether this was a conscious professional slight by Richard A. Gardner against the ABA book, a book I would chose - if I had only one choice - over Richard A. Garner's book.However, I again have to reiterate, one really needs the insights provided by both books.As I said, I have all of Richard A. Gardner's books on order.

Simply the best reference available
I have firsthand experience with this topic, and I have worked with many victims of this type of brainwashing in my position as director of America's Stolen Children Network. I believe I've read every book on this subject and none compare to this one. This is simply the best reference available. If you are a therapist or counselor, do not consider interacting with clients of this kind without having read this book. This is the real deal!

Children Held Hostage
Children Held Hostage is the very best book for help in understanding and identifying PARENTAL ALIENATION.It should be in the hands of every Lawyer, Guardian ad Litem, Psychologist and any one working with children.It, also, is very beneficial for parents to read, who are suffering from this disorder.Parental Alienation is cruel and breaks the bond-of-love between a parent and child.Before allowing a Guardian ad Litem or others to intervene, he/she should read this book. I cannot praise it enough.
Hazel Davis, Chair
PAS Kids In Distress

Hope for the hopeless
This is the most in depth book on the market for someone in a hostile custody battle involving parental alienation syndrome. The authors have addressed significant issues in great detail. They have provided useful tools to combat the issues at handand given hope to those embroiled in the battle.

data filled book
One of the best studies of the damage of alienating parental behaviour in divorce does to children. This was a pre-cursor to Gardner's terminology of Parental Alienation Syndrome, but all that here discusses is here. This book will help many divorced
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HELP IS HERE

Bipolar disorder has recently been identified as one of the most misunderstood and underdiagnosed conditions affecting children -- and it is dramatically on the rise. The Ups and Downs of Raising a Bipolar Child gives parents the sound advice and expert information they need to cope with this challenging diagnosis, and shows how to provide essential care and support for a bipolar child as well as for the rest of the family. ... Read more

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Ins and Outs of "The Ups and Downs..."
A book originally loaned to us by a professor, we HAD to buy it.This book is so full of really pertinent and useful information!

A Parents Guide to Rasing a Bipolar Child.
Having a bipolar child can be one of the most difficult and rewarding tasks known to man.This book gives parents an insight into the bipolar childs mind.If you don't have experience with a bipolar child they go from one extreame to another.One extream is known as Manic or Mania which is a state of euphoria often followed by severe risk taking and spending in an extream amounty of money in a short amount of time.The other extream is known as depressive.In a depressive state you can actually suffer from insomnia.You can also find yourself with no energy, you can find that you are so drained that you are unable to move.This book gives insight into the mind of a bipolar child that any parent who has even the slightest belief they have a bipolar child.

Growing up as a bipolar child is nearly impossible for both the child and the childs parents.My mother wished she has this book when I was a child it gave her an insight to my mind.

Excellent Book
My son is Bipolar and it has been an extremely difficult journey. He is nine now and he was diagnosed 3 years ago. This book is a Godsend. I highly recommend it.

She is only 4 years old and has the world on her shoulders
Our adopted daughter is only 4 years old. She has FAS, mood disorder NOS, separation disorder and ADHD.I have learned so much from this book and I am only half way through it.I have learned ways to occupy her mind like baking cookies and playing with clay.I learned about the medications and their side effects. We would have started risperdal today but, this book prompted me to call the psychiatrist and request behavioral therapy before we start medications.The doctor agreed that this was a good idea due to her young age.This book showed me that "WE CAN DO THIS".The knowledge and understanding that I have gained from this book will last a lifetime.

A Child Psychiatrist's Review
This book is a godsend for clinicians, bipolar children, and their families. It includes every important experience, concern, quest, and resource I have ever come across in my practice full of many bipolar children and their families.
The book is written in a compassionate style and knowing vantage point that only the author-mother of a bipolar child could achieve. The brief but pointed notes from the psychiatrist at the end of each chapter provide added expertise in an artful and humble way which I think parents can really appreciate. By so placing these comments, the message is clear: we psychiatrists often learn more from our patients than they do from us. Occasionally, we have something relevant to add.
I found each chapter not only incredibly true to life, but extremely informative. Especially useful are the web sites, names of organizations and support groups, and other recources which are usually obtainable only by laboriously researching a vast number of widely varying and often unrelated sources.
To top it all off, the last chapter discusses guardianships, trusts, and other methods of financially protecting bipolar children. These issues are seldom brought up in timely fashion, if at all, by clinicians. Further, families are often totally unaware of the options, and have no guidelines for even posing the necessary questions.
Since reading this book, I have recommended it to every parent of a bipolar child who has walked into my office. For some parents, reading this book has provided a diagnostic revelation, and hope for a future which had seemed hopelessly bleak.
The seal of authenticity offered by the author-parent, as well as by the testimony of the parents who responded to her surveys is the most convincing "selling point" of this book for parents who are otherwise tired of hearing quasi-expert opinions from professionals, family, and friends.
I have also recommended this book to my colleagues, most of whom treat only adult patients. I hope after reading this book, that they will listen with a different ear to their adult patients who describe the particular trials of parenting their children. Perhaps, rather than buying and reinforcing many a parent's guilt ridden self report that their own inconsistent parenting is the identifiable problem, informed clinicians will ask the probing questions which may uncover the real issues, and bring more undiagnosed bipolar children into much needed treatment.
Many thanks for this honest, wonderfully researched, and beautifully readable book.

Anne Fenton, MD
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How to be a victim
After being recommended this book often over the years by different people, I finally purchased it to read on my Kindle. I'm sorry I spent the few dollars it cost me, because the book is pretty much worthless.

First off, the book is poorly organized and the author makes a lot of assertions she doesn't back up with either evidence or cogent argumentation. A chapter heading will make a statement, and then the content of the chapter doesn't contain any information that explains the chapter heading or supports the statement. A lot of the information is hard-to-follow ramblings relating to how therapists treat patients, and has nothing to do with the premise of the book. Some chapters are long and others are maybe a page or two, and ideas don't get fully developed or supported no matter what the chapter length. And the case studies she includes are brief, woefully incomplete, and in many cases have little or no bearing on the premises she's presenting as fact. The inadequate quality of the writing and the poor organization alone make this a difficult and less-than-valuable read.

The second problem I had is that Miller, of course, blames mothers for everything bad that happens in a person's life. A mother's failure to completely and totally accept a baby or child's behavior - any behavior, at all times - has lead to the person cutting themselves off from their feelings, behaving like a "little adult" instead of a child, and driven them to behave destructively as adults to recapture some of their lost feelings they couldn't express as children. I have some problems with this idea, as A. it's illogical and B. most of what Miller asserts has been disproven in the intervening 30 years - by psychological, physiological, and biological research - since she originally published the book. Miller asserts that because small babies and children are dependent on their parents, they quickly learn how to adapt their behavior and mask their emotions so that they get their parents' approval. I would say that this is not an insidious or permanently-damaging human trait, but something driven by evolutionary biology. When I was pregnant with my son, I watched a great series called "The Baby Human" and one episode explained that babies, almost from the day they are born, take cues from their environment and watch people's faces as soon as they are able to focus their vision, so that they can imitate facial expressions and begin fitting in with the world around them. This is an evolutionary-driven trait, which babies developed so that they could begin bonding not only with their parents, but with the "tribe" of people around them, and therefore receive love, food, shelter, etc. It's innate, it's not the product of generations of parental neglect, as Miller says. If small children didn't learn to mimic other people's emotions and mask emotions that weren't acceptable to their society, they would end up as uncontrolled animalistic children - like the "feral children" who were raised with no social interaction or cues. Parents, in turn, teach children acceptable ways of behavior, and of coping with their emotions so that children can fit in with the larger world and be a part of the economy that delivers accolades, food, money, love, etc. To not do so manufactures a child that has no ability to fit in with his or her peers, and becomes an outcast. The exchange of teaching and learning ways to express emotion is rooted in a parent's desire to have their child survive, and a child's desire for survival, and it goes much farther back into human history than Miller seems to realize.

The other problem I had with the book is that Miller talks about people "recovering" memories of parental abuse from INFANCY, which we all know by now is not physiologically possible. The vast, vast majority of humans cannot even form permanent memories until age 3, based on the way the brain develops and basic brain biology and chemistry. The idea that someone could "recover" a memory of something that happened to them as an infant is ludicrous, and given what we know about the veracity of most "recovered" memories I am surprised more people don't have a problem with Miller's discussion of them in this book. Many people who were, in therapy, guided to "recover" memories later realized the therapist had planted ideas in their head that they then took for memories when, in fact, the event they were "remembering" had never happened. Back in 1979 the idea of "therapy-recovered memories" still had currency, but the idea has been almost completely disavowed today.

The reason why I think this book has some merit is in the idea that many parents do not allow their children to "feel" their emotions and believe that their feelings are OK. One thing we are trying to teach our son is that his feelings are his alone, and feelings are not wrong. He is not wrong to feel a certain way about anything. It's okay to be angry, sad, upset, disappointed, etc. Those are natural human emotions. However, there are right and wrong ways to express those emotions - talking about being angry is fine, and hitting a pillow is fine. Hitting another person, or destroying someone's property, is not okay. Those are not our rules; those are the rules of the society we live in. And yes, it is important for him to be able to fit into his society and follow society's rules; otherwise he will be cut off from a lot of good things in life, including satisfying friendships, a meaningful relationship with a partner, gainful employment, etc. I don't think it should be acceptable to teach children they are "bad" or "wrong" for feeling an emotion that comes naturally to them, as that will lead to long-term problems with suppression of emotion and failures to connect with other people. But Miller's theories - as disjointed and jumbled as they are in this book - aren't correct either. She basically says that in infancy and early childhood, children should be allowed to "rule over" their parents, and parents should refrain from doing anything that indicates to a child their feelings (and attenuated behavior) is not acceptable. This wasn't a new idea even in 1979, and the children who were raised under those kinds of ideas turned out to be uncontrollable, near-sociopathic, manipulative misfits. Children need boundaries and structure, and they need adults to teach them how to behave - they cry out for such structure and when they don't get it, only bad things result. To me, parents have a strong obligation to teach children how to form relationships and fit into society, much stronger than teaching them to express every emotion that they have, every moment that they have it.

I did not get much out of this book that was useful. I think a lot of people have latched onto this because it basically absolves adults of any responsibility for their own lives, putting the blame back on their parents. That isn't a healthy paradigm and something that I'm surprised is still perpetuating. I don't recommend this book as a useful tutorial on childhood emotion, but it was useful to me to read it so that I understand why certain people I know love it so much.

Waste of Time
This is nothing more than ramblings that are vague and useless. There are so many better books out there.

Dangerous book
Among the all of theAlice Miller's works this one is her the most dangerouscreation. In the hands, and mind, of an unprepared reader can cause, through the vivid andperfect presentation ( the pure revelation of the truth) a shock, realizing the causes and ways we have lost our souls (lost our qualitiy of governing the personal life) and the price we pay for it.
On the other hand this book is of inestimable value for (any of sincere and persistent searcher of the truth) which can bring to a human being awakening from the state of dreaming, in which is captured all the world of humans.
Do not expect the paradise of the life after reading this book was finished. The result of courage (presented by not throwing the book away, far from us) leads to the point of freedom ofmind and spirit. Such achievement requests aditional effort, contribution of further learning and undertaking responsibilty for personal deeds, no matter how small or big they are. The paradise of freedom rise itself butcan be only the result of continuous awareness directed to the life and respectively correct investment of personal energy. Awareness and purification of deeds from adverse effects of inherited and never explored paterns of behaviour in the everyday life are for people with aspiration for happiness mandatory.
The peace of the intoxicated will be lost. Instead of it one will gain the joy of life.
The mentioned success is reserved for rare. This book must be avoided by suspicious people. Their untrustworthy mental stability can push them into unpredictable and uncontrolable moods of behaviour . The work is reserved just forthe innocent and persistent people whose flawlessness protect them from dangerous attack of the unknown. Good luck to all the braves traveling the hard path of the personal development!

Everyone is sick and refuses the cure!
This book does a fantastic job explaining the very most basic human disease, psychological-disturbance from childhood trauma.If you are unhappy there may be several reasons why.I recommend testing this theory for yourself, it may hold the secret to your chronic torment.Three cheers for Alice Miller!

fascinating...
and compelling.Miller writes pursuasively and well, and she has a strong point of view.This book contains her essential ideas and presents them clearly. ... Read more

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This book offers a unified account of the major research findings and theories on the development of children's thinking from infancy to adolescence; and also considers their practical implications. It examines the change processes through which development occurs, as well as the nature of the changes in language, perception, memory, conceptual understanding, and problem-solving that mark cognitive development. Eight central themes presented in the first chapter integrate and unify the presentation.The authors examine Piaget's theory of development, information-processing theories of development, sociocultural theories, perceptual development, language development, memory development, conceptual development, problem solving, social cognition and the development of academic skills.For anyone involved in the thinking processes and development of children. ... Read more

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Overpriced Text - but aren't they always?
A great book, but it does put a dent in your pockets for a paperback - fortunately it has fantastic resale value as of this review. I didn't use very many chapters of this book for class, but what I did read was very informative. ... Read more

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  The Developing Child gives students the tools they require to organize, retain and apply information from the broad field of child psychology, while offering balanced coverage of theory and application, with a strong emphasis on culture.  Prenatal Development; Birth and Early Infancy; Physical Development; Perceptual Development; Cognitive Development; Development of Language; Personality Development; Development of Social Relationships; Family System; Atypical Development.  For individuals seeking to understand to better understand children.

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Bought for Child Development Class
This book was required reading for a child development class that I recently took. The book had a lot of information but was fairly easy to read. I wouldn't have purchased it if it wasn't required. ... Read more

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An excellent overview of child fire-setting
Dr. Gaynor is one of a handful of true experts on juvenile fire-setting in the United States.She and her colleagues are doing great service by turning out books such as this one, which help us understand and do therapy with juvenile fire-setters.This book was hard to find, but worth the wait. ... Read more

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Child Development is not simple
It never fails to amaze me when people complain about books being "too technical". As an "Almost" PhD, I can say that Michael Cole is brilliant. The readings push the mind as to the true "WHY" questions abouta human child's development. Furthermore, the description clearly states this is a text for graduate level students. Ahem, readers. Guess what? That means Masters Degrees and above. This text was not intended for an entry level child development class.
Finally, if you expect child and human development to be an easy, by the numbers discipline, think again. This is not about naming Piagetian stages and developmental timelines. This is about thinking about why humans have developed, and continue to develop, the way they currently do. If that is too big an endeavor with which to commit your mind, Please. Get a different career. I beg you.

Readings Review
This book was not what I expected. It is too technical to use as a reference guide if your in college. The title of the book is very misleading. It should be titled research and data.

Readings on The Development of Children
This text book was brand new at a unbelieveable price and the shipping was fast aside from the fact that this book was out of stock from the store that i had purchased it from. My book came within a week or so from the day i had purchased it online. This deal was AMAZING, WOW I STILL CANT BELIEVE IT !! Fantastic!!!!!!!!! OH YEA IT WAS FREE SHIPPING TOOO

not what i was looking for
I was very disappointed in this book.I expected it to directly support the text but it was simply a collection of articles.While the articles were useful, I was expecting the "readings" to be more closely tied to the text.

Excellent supplement to an outstanding text.
Gauvain and Cole's "Readings on the Development of Children-3d Edition" is an excellent supplement to an outstanding text. Where so many "workbook" type supplements are little more than an encapsulation of material already covered in the main text, "Readings..." is a collection of classic and contemporary articles that provides an excellent springboard for discussion in graduate level seminars.

I especially like the fact that each reading is followed by discussion questions that encourage studentts to think more broadly about key concepts. ... Read more

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What does a typical three-year-old think about and feel? What can you anticipate from your five-year-old about to begin school? What does it mean that your eight-year-old seems to lie regularly?

Your Child takes you step-by-step through the developmental milestones of childhood, discussing specific questions and concerns and examining more troublesome problems. From choosing your baby's doctor to dealing with steep problems, from helping a child develop selfesteem to discerning when certain behaviors call for professional help -- and how to find it -- this book offers comprehensive and accessible information for parents on the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development of children from infancy through the preadolescent years. Expertly and definitively offering practical advice and invaluable information, Your Child will guide you through every stage of your child's growth and help you meet the daily challenges of parenting.

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Your Child; Emotional, Behavioral & Cognitive Devel
this is a great resource especially if your children are entering or have entered the "twilight Zone" of preadolescence

Book interesting
While the book made for interesting reading (I have a 15 month son), I did not like how inflexible it came across.For example, it would say at 8 months, your baby should be doing this...If my child weren't doing whatever it was at that exact time, and I didn't know better, the book would have scared the crap out of me, making me think something was horribly wrong with my child.Now I have not read the entire book, as I am reading it as my child grows up.

A "must have" for every parent
"Your Child" truly is an essential for every home. Although written by members of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, it's parent friendly to read!

Age groups are broken down in each chapter, which I found helpful to find and very easy to use for my family.

The information I obtained and utilized was priceless. I highly recommend this book.

Inadequate
Like so many other realms, this book lumps children who are not babies or toddlers into a huge group that includes preteens. If you have a baby, fine. Otherwise, find another more focused book for your 6 to 12 year old.

Sorry I wasted my money. I am often left unanswered. ... Read more

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Although there are many case study books that focus on adults diagnosed with various psychological disorders, this is the first casebook/workbook devoted exclusively to major child and adolescent disorders and their common treatments. It organizes disorders according to the DSM-IV, and allows readers to "diagnose" and consider treatment options before seeing how a case was actually diagnosed and treated. It provides detailed descriptions of a range of clinical problems affecting children and adolescents -- recognizing that symptoms and associated features of a disorder may be quite different, at times even seemingly opposite, of symptoms presented by adults -- and illustrates some of the ways these problems can be examined and treated.Section I presents case scenarios along with space for readers to write their ideas about diagnosis and treatment. Section II includes the diagnosis made by the therapist in the case, the rationale behind the diagnosis, and treatment considerations. Presents cases that focus on "classic" symptoms and problematic issues. Stresses the social context in which symptoms occur -- even when these social factors are not directly related to diagnosis.For psychiatric social workers, nurses, and counselors. ... Read more

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Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
This book presents real case studies that challenge the reader to focus on critical attributes to determine the possible psychological disorder the patient is experiencing. In the 2nd part of the book each case is presented with an explaination of the diagnosis and possible steps to take to assist the patient in achieving wellness. In this way the reader is able to first see how well he or she can diagnois the problem and support needed and then read for the actual diagnois and support determined for the patient to check how well he or she did. ... Read more

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A thorough updating of topics including: standards for early childhood programs, the mandates of IDEA, developmental theories, changing demographics, assessments, child care practices and bullying .

For child development courses that cover prebirth through age eight, this widely used text discusses major development theories as they relate to physical, social and emotional, and cognitive domains.  The book contains extensive applications for those who teach and work with young children, making it particularly appropriate for early childhood education programs.

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“This text addresses the basics of developmental psychopathology in a clear manner, with enough detail to facilitate a real understanding of the concepts and their relevance to clinical work with children.”
--Christie P. Karpiak, University of Scranton

This introductory undergraduate text on child and adolescent psychopathology adopts a developmental psychopathology approach to understanding child disorders. The author examines the emergence of disorders over time, pays special attention to risk and protective factors that influence developmental processes and trajectories, and examines child psychopathology in the context of normal development.

The author has four main goals: to show students why an understanding of child psychopathology and its treatment might be important to them as future psychologists, social workers, educators, and/or parents; to introduce students to the developmental psychopathology perspective and how it can help organize understanding of childhood disorders; to help students appreciate the interdependence of psychological research and clinical practice; and to engage students in higher-level thinking necessary to analyze information, critically evaluate ideas, and create solutions to real-world problems based on empirically validated findings.

Key Features

• Links research with clinical practice via a focus on evidence-based therapies for childhood disorders, balancing solid empirical science and clinical insights and thus helping students filter clinically valuable findings from those lacking utility
• Emphasizes the developmental perspective to better understand psychopathology, with use of normal development as a lens through which to view abnormal behavior or emotional problems
• Provides case studies and real-life examples in each chapter, allowing the student to understand how the material relates to specific situations
• Incorporates assessment methods into specific content modules rather than isolating assessment as a separate and discrete chapter
• Utilizes smaller, more focused modules to allow for greater flexibility for instructors and students and to avoid the problem (seen in other texts) of lumping dissimilar problems into longer chapters
• Offers end-of-chapter review questions that help students apply, analyze, and evaluate the information in the chapter, requiring them to critically think about the material
• Includes suggested additional readings describing etiological models, empirical studies, or treatment approaches, as well as current research articles.

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Good balance between research & practice
This book provides a nice introduction to abnormal child psychology. I especially like the way it integrates research with examples of real-world practice. The introductory chapters focus mostly on the principles of developmental psychopathology, ethics in research and practice with children, assessment, and diagnosis. Later chapters focus on specific disorders. Each chapter presents several "case studies" and shows how clinicians might use empirically supported treatments to help children with that specific disorder. Some of the things I liked about this book was that it has specific sections on adolescent substance use problems and pediatric bipolar disorder. I also liked the fact that it gives detailed descriptions of both psychosocial and pharmaceutical treatments and summaries of the research studies that support each treatment's use. Nothing is dumbed-down, but neither is it too difficult to understand. One weakness is a lack of emphasis on pediatric psychology. Still, a good book for undergraduates or beginning graduate students. ... Read more

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In Female Sexual Predators: Understanding and Identifying Them to Protect Our Children and Youths, social worker and therapist Karen A. Duncan helps adults be proactive so children will not fall prey to this violation. Vignettes pulled from news headlines and interviews with female sexual predators Duncan has encountered in her own practice are used to help readers understand these crimes and the women who commit them, as well as the impact these crimes can have on victims.

The women profiled were in positions of authority at churches, schools, sports institutions, and the home. Victims explain how these women exploited their positions of trust, planned their crimes, groomed their victims, deceivedadults into not detecting their behavior, and how they did not stop even when they recognized the danger and the harm to themselves and their victims. Duncan addresses the issue of maternal sexual abuse answering questions about mothers who willingly sexual abuse their own children and at times commit child sexual abuse with other adults, as well as women who sexually abuse girls. Four types of female sex offenders are presented within the emerging research on this topic, along with questions regarding assessment, treatment, and management of female sex offenders in the community. It also addresses the controversial issues of female pedophilia and female sexual deviance within the context of what we know about human sexuality.

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Excellent book
The literature regarding sexual offending has usually focused on male offenders. However, as the scientific research has increased, so too has the knowledge that we have profoundly underestimated the extent and effect of sexually abusive behaviors in women. This book helps to change that.Well written, easy to read for professionals and non-professionals, and well researched.Ms. Duncan does a good job of looking for the truth and publishing it no matter what that truth might be.

This is a book that I feel every social services/mental health agency should read.As a professional who has treated both offenders and victims I wish that more professionals (well everyone really) were aware of the information contained in this book.


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The current volume includes chapters on dysfunctionalparenting, approaches to development assessment, and simple and socialphobias. ... Read more