Best Medical Child Psychology Books
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1. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Author: by Daniel J. Siegel
0553386697
Bantam
English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book. Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.Harvey Karp, M.D.
In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.
The authors explainand make accessiblethe new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. The upstairs brain, which makes decisions and balances emotions, is under construction until the mid-twenties. And especially in young children, the right brain and its emotions tend to rule over the logic of the left brain.
No wonder kids throw tantrums, fight, or sulk in silence. By applying these discoveries to everyday parenting, you can turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and foster vital growth. Complete with age-appropriate strategies for dealing with day-to-day struggles and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child shows you how to cultivate healthy emotional and intellectual development so that your children can lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives.
2. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
Author: by Hunter Clarke-Fields MSAE
English
184 pages
1684033888
A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting. Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A kinder, more compassionate world starts with kind and compassionate kids. In Raising Good Humans, you’ll find powerful and practical strategies to break free from reactive parenting habits and raise kind, cooperative, and confident kids.
Whether you’re running late for school, trying to get your child to eat their vegetables, or dealing with an epic meltdown in the checkout line at a grocery storebeing a parent is hard work! And, as parents, many of us react in times of stress without thinkingoften by yelling.
But what if, instead of always reacting on autopilot, you could respond thoughtfully in those moments, keep your cool, and get from A to B on time and in one piece? With this book, you’ll find powerful mindfulness skills for calming your own stress response when difficult emotions arise.
You’ll also discover strategies for cultivating respectful communication, effective conflict resolution, and reflective listening. In the process, you’ll learn to examine your own unhelpful patterns and ingrained reactions that reflect the generational habits shaped by your parents, so you can break the cycle and respond to your children in more skillful ways.
3. No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Author: by Daniel J. J. Siegel
034554806X
English
288 pages
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The pioneering experts behind The Whole-Brain Child and The Yes Brain tackle the ultimate parenting challenge: discipline. A lot of fascinating insights … An eye-opener worth reading. ParentsHighlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tearswithout causing a scene.
Defining the true meaning of the d word (to instruct, not to shout or reprimand), the authors explain how to reach your child, redirect emotions, and turn a meltdown into an opportunity for growth. By doing so, the cycle of negative behavior (and punishment) is essentially brought to a halt, as problem solving becomes a win/win situation.
Inside this sanity-saving guide you’ll discover strategies that help parents identify their own discipline philosophyand master the best methods to communicate the lessons they are trying to impart facts on child brain developmentand what kind of discipline is most appropriate and constructive at all ages and stages the way to calmly and lovingly connect with a childno matter how extreme the behaviorwhile still setting clear and consistent limits tips for navigating your child through a tantrum to achieve insight, empathy, and repair twenty discipline mistakes even the best parents makeand how to stay focused on the principles of whole-brain parenting and discipline techniques Complete with candid stories and playful illustrations that bring the authors’ suggestions to life, No-Drama Discipline shows you how to work with your child’s developing mind, peacefully resolve conflicts, and inspire happiness and strengthen resilience in everyone in the family.
4. 1-2-3 Magic: Gentle 3-Step Child & Toddler Discipline for Calm, Effective, and Happy Parenting
Author: by Thomas Phelan Ph.D.
SOURCEBOOKS
English
320 pages
“Everywhere you go, you keep overhearing other moms say to their misbehaving children, ‘That’s one.That’s two. That’s three.’ And then you watch in disbelief as their kid actually stops!” PopSugar MomsAre you the parent of a strong-willed child?
Is bedtime a nightly battle? Are you looking to get your kids to behave without yelling? Whether you have a toddler, preschooler, or school-aged child, this parenting book can help you create a calm, happy home.”Phelan’s method has a proven track record of ending the negotiations and getting kids back on track…
1-2-3 {Magic} is the gold standard of child discipline for good reason. ” Library Journal-STARREDSince kids don’t come with a manual, 1-2-3 Magic is the next best thing. Dr. Thomas Phelan has developed the #1 selling child discipline book in the country – a quick, simple, and scientifically proven way to parent that actually works!
Using his signature counting method, Dr. Phelan helps parents to quickly, calmly, and effectively stop behaviors like tantrums and meltdowns, whining and pouting, talking back, sibling rivalry and more in toddlers, preschoolers, and middle schoolers. He guides parents through drama-free discipline methods that will help with:Getting kids to listen Dealing with difficult/spirited children How to discipline a toddler What to do about sibling rivalry No drama when you disciplineDr. Phelan also covers how you can easily establish positive routines with children ages 2 12 around: Bedtime Dinnertime Homework Getting up and out in the morning and tips for strengthening your relationship with your kidsMillions of parents from all over the world have used the award-winning 1-2-3 Magic to raise happier families and put the fun back into parenting, combining love and logic to make you a more peaceful parent with a happy kid.”1-2-3 Magic simplifies everything I’ve read in other books, which makes it very easy to follow.
5. Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges
Author: by Mona Delahooke
PESI Publishing
English
315 pages
A NEW approach to solving behavioral challenges. In Beyond Behaviors, internationally known pediatric psychologist, Dr. Mona Delahooke describes behaviors as the tip of the iceberg, important signals that we should address by seeking to understand a child’s individual differences in the context of relational safety.
Featuring impactful worksheets and charts, this accessible book offers professionals, educators and parents tools and techniques to reduce behavioral challenges and promote psychological resilience and satisfying, secure relationships. Neuroscience-based effective tools and strategies for children labeled with: – Conduct Disorder – Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) – Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD) – Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) – Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) – Anxiety & Depression – Autism & Developmental or Learning DifferencesAnd children who experience or have experienced: – Aggressive, confusing and unpredictable behaviors – Tantrums and meltdowns – Disconnection or shutdown – Adverse childhood experiences – Trauma and toxic stress
6. CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents: Over 200 Worksheets & Exercises for Trauma, ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Depression & Conduct Disorders
Author: by Lisa Phifer
PESI Publishing & Media
English
230 pages
The CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents gives you the resources to help the children in your life handle their daily obstacles with ease. Inside this workbook you’ll find hundreds of worksheets, exercises, and activities to help treat: – Trauma – ADHD – Autism – Anxiety – Depression – Conduct Disorders Written by clinicians and teachers with decades of experience working with kids, these practical and easy-to-use therapy tools are vital to teaching children how to cope with and overcome their deepest struggles.
Step-by-step, you’ll see how the best strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy are adapted for children. Client Activities are created for the child to do themselves either in-session or as homework. Whether supervised by the therapist or their caregiver, they will be able to do the activity at any age or stage in the treatment process.
7. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity
Author: by Nadine Burke Harris M.D.
Mariner Books
English
272 pages
An extraordinary, eye-opening book. People 2018 National Health Information Awards, Silver Award A rousing wake-up call … This highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of childhood adversity and toxic stress.
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diegoa boy who had stopped growing after a sexual assaultwho galvanized her journey to uncover the connections between toxic stress and lifelong illnesses.
The stunning news of Burke Harris’s research is just how deeply our bodies can be imprinted by ACEsadverse childhood experiences like abuse, neglect, parental addiction, mental illness, and divorce. Childhood adversity changes our biological systems, and lasts a lifetime. For anyone who has faced a difficult childhood, or who cares about the millions of children who do, the fascinating scientific insight and innovative, acclaimed health interventions in The Deepest Well represent vitally important hope for preventing lifelong illness for those we love and for generations to come.
8. No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
Author: by Janet Lansbury
English
162 pages
1499351119
Janet Lansbury is unique among parenting experts. As a RIE teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, her advice is not based solely on formal studies and the research of others, but also on her twenty years of hands-on experience guiding hundreds of parents and their toddlers.
No Bad Kids is a collection of Janet’s most popular and widely read articles pertaining to common toddler behaviors and how respectful parenting practices can be applied to benefit both parents and children. It covers such common topics as punishment, cooperation, boundaries, testing, tantrums, hitting, and more.
No Bad Kids provides a practical, indispensable tool for parents who are anticipating or experiencing those critical years when toddlers are developmentally obliged to test the limits of our patience and love. Armed with knowledge and a clearer sense of the world through our children’s eyes, this period of uncertainty can afford a myriad of opportunities to forge unbreakable bonds of trust and respect.
9. Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary "Executive Skills" Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential
Author: by Peg Dawson
Guilford Press
English
314 pages
There’s nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your smart but scattered child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger.Drs.
Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great news: there’s a lot you can do to help. The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial executive skills-the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions.
Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines. Small changes can add up to big improvements-this empowering book shows how.
10. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, 4th Edition: A Step-by-Step Program for a Good Night's Sleep
Author: by Marc Weissbluth M.D.
0553394800
Ballantine Books
English
The perennial favorite for parents who want to get their kids to sleep with easenow in a completely revised and expanded fourth edition! In this fully updated fourth edition, Dr. Marc Weissbluth, one of the country’s leading pediatricians, overhauls his groundbreaking approach to solving and preventing your children’s sleep problems, from infancy through adolescence.
In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child’s natural sleep cycles. Rewritten and reorganized to deliver information even more efficiently, this valuable sourcebook contains the latest research on the best course of action for sleep problems: prevention and treatment common mistakes parents make trying to get their children to sleep different sleep needs for different temperaments stopping the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to her internal clocknaturally handling nap-resistant kids and when to start sleep-training why both night sleep and day sleep are important obstacles for working moms and children with sleep issues the father’s role in comforting children how early sleep troubles can lead to later problems the benefits and drawbacks of allowing kids to sleep in the family bed Rest is vital to your child’s health, growth, and development.
11. The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activitis to Nurture Developing Minds
Author: by Daniel J Siegel
ISBN: 978-1936128747
Published at: PESI Publishing & Media; Workbook edition (June 1, 2015)
A Personalized Workbook to Help You Deepen, Reflect On, and Apply Whole-Brain Principles.Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson speak to audiences all over the world about their immensely popular best-sellers, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline. The message Dan and Tina continually receive from their audiences, whether live or virtual, is that people are hungry for the opportunity to take the Whole-Brain ideas and go deeper with them.
Thanks to this new workbook, they now can. The Whole-Brain Child Workbook has a unique, interactive approach that allows readers not only to think more deeply about how the ideas fit their own parenting approach, but also develop specific and practical ways to implement the concepts – and bring them to life for themselves and for their children.
Dozens of clear, practical and age-specific exercises and activities. Applications for clinicians, parents, educators, grandparents and care-givers!
12. Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility
Author: by Foster Cline
NavPress
English
272 pages
A time-tested parenting book with over 900,000 copies sold! Now updated to address technology use, screen time, and social media. Designed for preschool and beyond, this helpful and practical psychology-based parenting method is an invaluable guide for all parents! Teach your children healthy responsibility and encourage their character growth from a young age.
Learn to establish healthy boundaries with your children through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats, nagging, or power struggles. Trusted by generations of parents, counselors, and teachers to lovingly raise responsible children, Parenting with Love and Logic includes solutions for dozens of specific topics such as: Tantrums Managing screen time Grades and report cards Chores Getting ready for school Peer pressure Cyberbullying Navigating crisis situations and grief And much more!
Each issue is indexed for easy reference. Learn how to tame tempers and re-establish a calm, healthy relationship and positive communication with your child today! This is as close to an owners manual for parents as you will find. Now, parents can embrace mistakes as wonderful learning opportunities to raise respectful, responsible, and caring children.
13. The Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: Includes DSM-5 Updates
Author: by David J. Berghuis
1118067843
Wiley
English
The bestselling treatment planning system for mental health professionals The Adolescent Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fifth Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies.
New edition features empirically supported, evidence-based treatment interventions including conduct disorder, substance use, low self-esteem, suicidal ideation, ADHD, and eating disorders Organized around 36 behaviorally based presenting problems, including peer/sibling conflict, school violence, sexual abuse, and others Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventionsplus space to record your own treatment plan options Easy-to-use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA
14. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Author: by Gordon Neufeld
Ballantine Books
English
352 pages
International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling author Gabor Mat, M.D., to tackle one of the most disturbing trends of our time: Children today looking to their peers for directiontheir values, identity, and codes of behavior.
This peer orientation undermines family cohesion, interferes with healthy development, and fosters a hostile and sexualized youth culture. Children end up becoming overly conformist, desensitized, and alienated, and being cool matters more to them than anything else. Hold On to Your Kids explains the causes of this crucial breakdown of parental influenceand demonstrates ways to reattach to sons and daughters, establish the proper hierarchy in the home, make kids feel safe and understood, and earn back your children’s loyalty and love.
This updated edition also specifically addresses the unprecedented parenting challenges posed by the rise of digital devices and social media. By helping to reawaken instincts innate to us all, Neufeld and Mat will empower parents to be what nature intended: a true source of contact, security, and warmth for their children.
15. Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger
Author: by Janine Halloran
ISBN: 978-1683731221
Published at: PESI Publshing & Media; Workbook edition (March 20, 2018)
Dealing with stress, anxiety and anger are important skills to learn, but not all kids learn those strategies naturally. The Coping Skills for Kids Workbook can help teach children to calm down, balance their energy and emotions, and process challenging feelings.
Author Janine Halloran, LMHC, share over 75 innovative, fun and engaging activities developed from her experience in schools, outpatient mental health clinics and as a mother. Loved by counselors, educators and parents alike!!
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The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: Includes DSM-5 Updates
Author: by David J. Berghuis
1118067851
Wiley
English
A time saving resource, fully revised to meet the changing needs of mental health professionals The Child Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fifth Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third party payors, and state and federal agencies.
New edition features empirically supported, evidence based treatment interventions including anxiety, attachment disorder, gender identity disorder, and more Organized around 35 behaviorally based presenting problems including academic problems, blended family problems, children of divorce, ADHD, and more Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventionsplus space to record your own treatment plan options Easy to use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to the requirements of most third party payors and accrediting agencies including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA
