GCSE Child Development for AQA covers every unit of the AQA specification with a range of teaching and learning features including: Getting Started, Key Terms, Case Studies, Over to You, Investigate and a range of diagrams to explain key concepts and engage students. Knowledge Check features help to[...]

"My kid is smart, but..."
It takes more than school smarts to create a fulfilling life. In fact, many bright children face special challenges: Some are driven by perfectionism; Some are afraid of effort, because they're used to instant success; Some routinely butt heads with authority figures; [...]

The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fifth Edition, is fully revised to meet the changing needs of mental health professionals. This time-saving resource now reflects DSM 5 diagnostic suggestions and detailed evidence-based treatment plan language required by many public funding sources, priv[...]

Written by experienced practitioners and academics, this is a core text about the practice of residential child care. It takes as its starting point the fact that residential child care involves workers and children sharing a common lifespace, in which the quality of interpersonal relationships is k[...]

During her lifetime Francoise Dolto revolutionized the psycho-analytic understanding of childhood. As an early pioneer, she emphasized that the child is to be recognized from birth as a person. As a gifted and innovative clinician, Dolto developed her ideas about the unconscious image of the body. A[...]

Before the "Age of Reason" higher learning was transmitted through archetypal characters in stories and fairy tales. In modern times these all-important stories have been relegated to a secondary position as suitable only for children. The whimsical art and familiar characters of the INNER CHILD CAR[...]