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Health & Personal DevelopmentChildren with Behavioral Problems
A Guide for Parents of Children with Rude, Angry, or Aggressive Behavior
by Walter Matthys/ Christine Boersma
Parents as well as those working with children can find themselves confronted with questions about children’s rude, angry, or downright aggressive behavior. This book seeks to inform parents, teachers, and other caregivers about behavioral issues, how to get to the bottom of the problem and evaluate whether external help should be sought. It provides practical tips that help reduce harmful behavior. This title can also be used in youth mental healthcare for psychoeducation. Target Group: Parents, caregivers, teachers
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Health & Personal DevelopmentClinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs for Children and Adolescents
by Dean Elbe, Kalyna Z. Bezchlibnyk-Butler, Adil S. Virani
Quick and comprehensive information on psychotropic drugs for children and adolescents. The “Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs for Children and Adolescents” is a unique resource to help you make the right choices about psychotropic medications for younger patients. The ffth edition of this widely acclaimed reference has been fully updated and expanded. • Updated information on psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents • U nique comparison charts (dosages, side effects, pharmacokinetics, interactions …) that allow you to see at a glance which medication is the most suitable for each patient • Instantly recognizable icons in full color throughout, a llowing you to quickly fnd all the information you seek • G eneral information on medications, availability, and indications • D rug action, dosing, pharmacokinetics, and related areas• Warnings and precautions • P atientrelated information, such as lab monitoring recommendations, nursing implications, and patient advice• Clearly written patient and caregiver information sheets as printable PDF fles
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Children's & YAThings. My 200 Picture Book
by Magdalena Skala
The very smallest children can identify and name objects from their homes in this award-winning, large-format board book. Magdalena Skala’s fantastic illustrations use bright colours and clear forms to depict the most important objects from the nursery, kitchen, garden, lounge, bathroom – in short from children’s everyday worlds: a great start into the world of words – and books! Magdalena Skala was awarded the 2019 Meefisch Prize and the Marktheidenfeld Prize for picture book illustration for THINGS. MY 200-PICTURE BOOK.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentApril 2016Learning with Children
by Fabian Grolimund
The school years are a major challenge, not only for your child but also for you as a parent. You may be asking yourself questions like: • How can I motivate my child to study and learn? • How should I handle homework conflicts? • How can I help my child to become more independent? • What learning strategies are appropriate for primary school children? • How can I help if my child has problems with math, reading, or spelling? Answers to these and many other questions about homework, learning, and studying can be found in this book. It describes practical methods and effective strategies, and shows how providing just a little support can be a big help to your child. Target Group: psychologists, education specialists, parents.
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MedicineThe Breastfeeding Book for Special Children
Breastfeeding and Caring for Premature, Ill, or Disabled Newborn Babies
by Brigitte Benkert
The practical handbook for nurses, midwives, and breastfeeding counselors that explains breastfeeding problems that may be encountered with premature and newborn babies, and shows how these special children can be breastfed successfully. The author defines and describes how the time of birth affects a premature baby’s development and explains the concept of “gentle care for premature babies,” presenting it as a resource-oriented, development-supporting approach to care. She explains what is required in order to breastfeed successfully, clearly distinguishing between various difficult starting scenarios for breastfeeding. Target Group: Nurses, midwives, and breastfeeding counselors
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2023In the company of wolves
Werewolves, wolves and wild children
by Sam George, Bill Hughes
In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres. We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children - often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals - and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion.
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2020Nutritional Practice Infants, Children, Adolescents
Concise advisory knowledge
by Dr. Ute Alexy, Dr. Annett Hilbig and Frauke Lang. Edited by Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich
Anyone giving responsible advice about questions on nutrition must have sound expert knowledge. This must not only be scientifically reliable, but must at the same time be relevant and practicable in the individual context. The concept behind the book series Nutritional Practice is to provide the necessary translation of current research results and guidelines into recommendations suitable for everyday use. In accordance with this consistent, practical approach, the focus is on the individual person in his or her particular stage in their life. The present volume is based on the various stages in life between infancy and adolescence. It therefore covers all questions about nutrition in health and disease from the first day of life to young adulthood
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024A book of monsters
Promethean horror in modern literature and culture
by David Ashford
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.
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October 2020Birds in the Mind
Life Stories from Adolescents with Mental Health Issues
by Bernd Gomeringer,Jessica Sänger, UlrikeSünkel, Gottfried M.Barth, Max Leutner
Mental health problems in children and adolescents are a taboo subject. “As ever, there are social misgivings”, says child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Robin Funke. “Many families find it tough when they first come to us. They feel this is a failure.” But what is it like living with depression, compulsive behaviour, anxiety and panic attacks, or with eating disorders, bulimia or anorexia? Schirm e. V., the friends association for child and adolescent psychiatry in Tübingen (Germany), asked young patients to share their stories. A moving book was created about living with mental health problems, about the dayto- day routine in psychiatric practice and the power of confidence.
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Humanities & Social SciencesPreparing Children for School Through Play
by Astrid Wirth, Efsun Birtwistle, Anna Mues, Frank Niklas
Playful learning is an excellent way to help children acquire skills from an early age. This book illustrates ways to promote the development of preschool- age children through play in everyday family and kindergarten life – entirely without expensive resources! Promotion of (written) language development and mathematical development forms a focus of this book, while preparing your child optimally for the two school subjects English and Mathematics. For:• parents and guardians• interested laypeople• educational specialists (such asteachers, childcare workers, socialworkers)
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MedicineCognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety in Children and Adolescents
A Treatment Manual for Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Specific Phobias, and Separation Anxiety
by Sigrun Schmidt-Traub
This title provides a semi-structured guide for an evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment of children and adolescents between the ages of 9 and 17 who suffer from panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias, or separation anxiety. It describes each step of the therapy in details, pays special attention to fear management, and enables the children to largely cope with the fears by themselves. The treatment modules can be used in the context of short-term therapy in individual or mixed individual and group setting. The manual allows for the therapy to be adjusted to the individual needs of the child or adolescent and some parts can be used also when working with younger children. Parents are trained to be co-therapists, supporting their children during the confrontational exercises but also insuring that parents do no unknowingly enable their child to maintain the anxiety disorder. All necessary worksheets can be found on the accompanying CD-ROM. Target Group: child and adolescent psychotherapists and psychiatrists, students and teachers of psychology, pediatricians, psychotherapists, specialists for psychosomatic medicine, school psychologists
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Humanities & Social SciencesHelping Children and Adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
by Sigrun Schmidt-Traub
Obsessive-compulsive disorders usually cause a high degree of suffering and can significantly impair the quality of life of the affected child or adolescent. The new edition of this guidebook describes the manifestations of obsessive thoughts and compulsive acts as well as the causative, triggering and perpetuating conditions, considering current findings in obsessive-compulsive research. Part I of the guide is aimed at adult readers and Part II at affected children and adolescents, who receive the most important information on obsessive-compulsive disorders in easy-to-understand language. The case studies make it comprehensible how an individual disorder model can be developed, how goals for coping with the compulsions can be derived from it, and finally how the treatment of the obsessive-compulsive disorder can be planned and carried out. The children and adolescents as well as their parents and educators receive concrete advice on how to help themselves and how to cope with compulsions. For:• affected children and adolescents• parents• teachers• therapists• relatives
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PsychologyDeveloping the Potential of Children with Special Needs
A Skill-based Perspective on Early Childhood Movement Development
by Jeremy Krauss
Jeremy Krauss, one of the last students of Mosché Feldenkrais, has been practicing the Feldenkrais Method for over 40 years and has developed the Jeremy Krauss Approach (JKA) during the past 15 years in his work with children with special needs. This interprofessional approach can provide skill-based support for children with a variety of developmental delays. Krauss looks back on treatment successes with atypically developed individuals whose difficulties are located in the neurological, psychological, or socioemotional domain. Using numerous case studies, Krauss reflects on his experiences, which are connectable to topics such as motor learning, neuroplasticity and developmental psychology. Didactically, JKA is based on close observation of movement sequences and individual movement patterns. The focus is on variations in the dynamic transition from one position to another and the associated individual developmental steps.
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Children's & YASilver Flood (1). The Mystery of Ray´s Rock
by Alex Falkner/ Torben Weit
The seven children are completely cut off from civilisation, mobile phones don’t work anymore and there’s no sign of help. Strange things happen on the island. Plants and animals grow unnaturally fast, their supplies are raided ... And as other groups of school children emerge, a life and death race begins for Eddie, Milla and their classmates to be rescued from the island. The first instalment of the ‘Silver Flood’ duology: a dangerous adventure with exciting plot twists and scare-factor. For all readers of survival and adventure stories aged 10+. Fast-paced reading for boys and girls, for outdoor kids and all those on their way! The final volume 2, GONE MISSING ON RAY’S ROCK, will be published on 7th April 2020!
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PsychologyGrandpa's Star
A Consolation Book for Children and Parents
by Julia Weißflog, Steffen Ortmüller, Daniel Wende
Saying goodbye to a loved one is always hard. Jon, the little hero of this story, serves as an example of how children can deal with the pain of loss. When Jon’s grandfather dies, he becomes a star. Jon decides to look for his grandfather’s star to say goodbye, and begins a journey through space and through his own grief. He soon realises that this is no easy search. His feelings alternates between disappointment, euphoria, anger, and sadness. Fortunately, the man on the moon explains to the little astronaut the special nature and uniqueness of the stars for the relatives on earth. Only there do the stars twinkle and shine for grandchildren, children, and everyone else who misses the deceased. Jon finally understands that his grandfather is dead, but is not simply gone, because in his memory, in his thoughts, and in the starry sky his grandfather is still there and makes his star shine for everyone who thinks of him. For: • children (ages 6–12) who suffer from the fear of losing a close family member or who have lost a family member• parents, relatives• therapists
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