For children whose only language is not talking, therapists need a language that doesn't depend on words. This book offers an innovative approach to treatment of clients who won't or can't respond to... (more)
This volume explores how joint attention first arises, its developmental course, its role in communication and social understanding, and the ways in which disruptions in joint attention may be... (more)
Child sexual abuse has been the subject of professional and public interest. This text provides a knowledge-base for understanding child sexual abusers, which is focused on practice but rooted in... (more)
Beginning with the premise that there are many different models of what knowledge and reasoning are, and of how they develop, this text aims to provide theoretical convergence towards a generally... (more)
Capturing the complexities of working with abused children, this text traces the interplay of neurobiological and psychological facets of behaviour, to show how abuse de-rails normal development and... (more)
The ability to express, understand and regulate emotions is a crucial element in individual functioning and interpersonal interaction. This volume looks at early child development by exploring the... (more)
A sixteen-year-old writes powerfully about the physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents and grandmother. 256 pages. (more)
Victims, survivors, and their supporters want to know how and why people can sexually assault and terrorise children who love and trust them. This book provides a vivid and reliable answer and is an... (more)
A practical manual of counselling skills for working with children with chronic medical and physical conditions. The book explores the child's understanding of their body and illness, how to... (more)
This is a reference work on child development up to the age of eight years. Covering the main features of physiology, cognitive, emotional, and language development in normal children, using an... (more)
At sixteen weeks the unborn child shies away from light. At twenty weeks there is a response to speech patterns. At twenty-five weeks the baby can kick in time to music. And at six months the unborn... (more)
In this new book the author demonstrates that newborn children are fully cognitive human beings with the ability to discriminate and experience the world in sophisticated ways. He shows that not only... (more)
The "continuum" is the whole of our environment, from family to society to species. Liedloff's encounters with South American Indians lead her to redefine western people's relationship to their... (more)
This work shows how primary schools can cost-effectively enable children from damaging backgrounds to have real access to a full curriculum through 'nurture groups'. It draws on experience of these... (more)
By regulating the order and number of conditions to be recorded in the treatment of a psychiatric patient, ICD-10 - a multiaxial framework - provides for internationally comparable descriptions of... (more)
This textbook aims to provide a selective, but representative, review of work in cognitive development, grouped around themes that are familiar from textbooks of adult cognition. The book focuses on... (more)
Written by expert practitioner-researchers, this co-authoured book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its 'expert' knowledge to turn social marginalism into pathology. 208... (more)
This work focuses on children with specific language impairments within the context of language comprehension, but also examines normal development. It provides a research and theory framework that... (more)