This book presents theories and clinical practices for dealing with children diagnosed with pervasive developmental disability or PDD. These are children who have a wide range of disabilities that affect their participation in even the most routine events of daily life, such as …
A memoir of the author's childhood experiences living with an upper-class Leeds family after having escaped from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport in 1939.
In 1939, on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland, seven-year-old Edith Milton (then Edith Cohn) and her sister Ruth left Germany by way of the Kindertransport, the program which gave some 10,000 Jewish children refuge in England. The two were given shelter by a jovial, upper-c…
Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have on creativity and imagination? In this book, two wise and long-admired observers of children's make-believe look at the cognitive and moral potential--and …
by International Program on Chemical Safety, Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals, World Health Organization., Collaborating Centre for Immunotoxicology and Allergic Hypersensitivity, International Labour Organisation, World Health Organization
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"Over one billion people under the age of eighteen live in territories affected by armed conflict. Despite this, scholars and practitioners often lack a comprehensive knowledge of how children both struggle within and shape conflict zones. Children and Global Conflict provides t…
"Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients: multiply traumatized adolescents, whose understandable hostility, resistance, even obstructiveness, render them poor candidates fo…
Playing Hard at Life brings contemporary relational thinking to bear on the psychodynamic treatment of a notably difficult group of young patients. Working with New York City teenagers who have survived the wars of inner-city life and Israeli teenage soldiers who have survived t…
