"In the age of high-pressure parenting, when so many of us we feel like we've got to get everything exactly right the first time, Dr. Aliza Pressman is the compassionate, reassuring expert we all need--and the one whose advice we can all use. Already beloved by listeners of hit podcast, Raising Good Humans, Dr. Pressman distills it all with a handful of strategies every parent can use to get things right often enough: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation,...

Este libro tuvo su germen histórico en 1985, y verá el lector cómo se va desplegando el pensamiento de Silvia Bleichmar a lo largo del curso que dictó a un grupo de profesionales, a pedido de Unicef, en ocasión del terremoto de México acontecido aquel año.

When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers. In this edited volume, nine experts on play show how play transactions are an important dynamic of play across cultures, age groups, even species. A rich array of play contexts is evident across the nine chapters, encompassing varied continents, age groups, and sorts of players. The play processes of giant pandas, of home-visiting...

Posee movimiento y deviene palabras, imágenes, trazos, velocidades, fuerzas, volúmenes, texturas; se niega a adoptar un formato establecido y único. Travieso, caótico, juega con nosotros. En lugar de sostenerse sobre pilares fijos y estáticos, los recrea; fiel e infiel a la rebeldía, transgrede la clasificación. La rebeldía de la infancia no es un libro teórico ni uno práctico; no es una guía ilustrada ni un artefacto para jugar o contemplar,...

Tuni's father began sexually abusing her when she was just four years old. Her mother, though aware of the abuse, was a silent witness, one either incapable or unwilling to intervene, and the abuse continued until Tuni was eleven. Three years later, when Tuni was fourteen, she was raped by an adult actor who was part of her cast in a professional theater production. These traumas would go on to shape much of her life. “Underwater Daughter” follows...

A powerful examination of the effects of divorce told by kids for kids that the whole family will benefit from. Witness insightful testimonies as the kids face the initial trauma, work through the pain, learn how to heal and be happy.

What are the signs of low self-esteem in a child? What destroys a child's confidence? How do I change my child's negative mindset? Throughout this book we will look at a wide variety of factors that influence self-esteem. Along with defining exactly what it is, we will look at why it is so important. We will also break it down and look at the various life stages that children go through and how self-esteem is important, and developed, during each...

Ce guide d'intervention cognitivo-comportementale, l'un des seuls en langue française, veut aider les intervenants œuvrant auprès des enfants et des adolescents. Ce second tome porte sur des troubles de nature extériorisée : le trouble déficitaire de l'attention avec hyperactivité, les comportements antisociaux graves, les tics et le syndrome Gilles de la Tourette et les troubles du spectre autistique.

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using games with rules and organized activities. From the early 1970s, that approach began to be replaced by playwork, a nondirective way of working. Playwork...

I did come to Daytona Beach, Florida, in 1947. My mother woke my brother and me one night and said, "We are running far away from your father." He was very, abusive and would beat, her black and blue many, times. Mom was afraid that he would, kill her one day, when he, would come home drunk. She saved us all. To all you boys, please remember that a good man will never strike a woman or hurt her in any way! Many of these experiences are, taken from...