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2008.
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English
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Includes material on "genocide survivors, witnesses to their own parents' murders, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence ... explains what happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress, and he reveals how today's innovative treatments are helping ease children's pain, allowing to become healthy adults.
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2014.
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English
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The completely updated and expanded new edition of this well-established text incorporates DSM-5 changes as well as other new developments. The all-in-one guide covers the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children - from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and anxiety, to autism spectrum disorders, nonverbal learning disabilities, Tourette's, sensory integration problems, and...
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Español
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Este libro habla de la mirada que podemos tener desde la clínica psicoanalítica para que, en lugar de infancias y adolescencias patologizadas, haya sujetos con proyectos y esperanzas. Nuestra tarea hoy debe incluir la defensa de la subjetividad en contra de todo intento de desubjetivizar y maquinizar al ser humano. En el trabajo con niños, niñas y adolescentes se nos plantea la cuestión ética de sostener un abordaje que los ubique como sujetos...
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Childhood obesity in the United States has tripled in a generation. But while debates continue over the content of school lunches and the dangers of fast food, we are just beginning to recognize the full extent of the long-term physical, psychological, and social problems that overweight children will endure throughout their lives. Most dramatically, children today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, something never before seen in the...
6) Bilan neuropsychologique de l'enfant: Un guide pour analyser les difficultés cognitives des enfants
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Français
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Évaluer les troubles cognitifs de l'enfant au moyen de la neuropsychologie.
La neuropsychologie a connu un essor considérable. Chez l'enfant, cette approche théorique a montré tout son sens dans l'étude des troubles cognitifs liés à des atteintes cérébrales acquises, certaines pathologies génétiques ou métaboliques, ou encore des troubles développementaux, y compris les troubles d'apprentissage.
Cet ouvrage est un guide pour la pratique...
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Les enfants nés après 2010 forment la génération alpha ou "la génération de verre", faisant référence aux écrans, à la transparence et à la fragilité du verre.
Comment appréhender cette nouvelle génération née dans un monde entièrement digitalisé et confrontée quotidiennement aux guerres, à l'urgence climatique et aux pandémies ? Comment les éduquer aux réseaux sociaux et à la surinformation ? Comment gérer leur anxiété...
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This book was written to help others and to show there is a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. There was little information when I desperately needed help. I decided to tell my story, so victims and their loved ones need to know they are not alone. It is imperative they get help soon. If this is not possible, it can be beneficial just being encouraged to talk to someone in a safe environment. Child sexual abuse affects the lives of the victims....
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Votre enfant vous semble parfois en difficulté avec ses camarades ? Vous avez l'impression qu'il traverse d'intenses tempêtes émotionnelles ? Vous vous demandez s'il n'a pas de trouble du spectre autistique (TSA) ? Mais comment en avoir la certitude ? Vers qui se tourner ? Vous souhaitez également comprendre ce qu'est l'autisme ?
Si toute ces questions se posent à vous, ce livre est fait pour vous ! Dans cet ouvrage, l'objectif de l'auteure...
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Practical and compassionate strategies to help your child with autism spectrum disorder thrive
Get the guidance you need to meet the challenges of raising an exceptional child. Parenting a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder offers several approaches to help you effectively and respectfully manage everyday situations.
Cut down on stress with practical advice drawn from clinical knowledge. Whether building a personal support network, creating safe...
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A year in the desperate life of a boy transformed by OCD from a bright ten-year-old into a stranger in his own skin. Although Laurie Gough was an intrepid traveller who had explored wild, far-off reaches of the globe, the journey she and her family took in their own home in their small Quebec village proved to be far more frightening, strange, and foreign than any land she had ever visited. It began when Gough's son, shattered by his grandfather's...
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In a remarkable memoir that reads like a novel, Jill Root's mind shattered without warning one morning, and a strange child's voice crashed like a stone through the surface of her apparently normal life. Beneath that surface lay an abyss of confusion and denial that ripped Jill's consciousness into unrecognizable pieces that would take years of work with three very different therapists to reassemble.
The mystery of her symptoms unfolds layer by layer,...
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Chloe Silverman is an associate professor in the department of English at Pennsylvania State University.
How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autism
Autism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation. Understanding Autism, a social history of...
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Autism is epidemic! In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control reported that 1 in 45 children is, identified with autism spectrum disorder. Yet, the phrase Autism Spectrum Disorder is simply a label; the underlying causes of the symptoms are rarely, diagnosed. Conventional doctors are unable to help because they are, restricted by the guidelines of the American Medical Association. So what is a parent to do? Beating Autism is the personal story of Anne...
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Diagnostics et psychothérapies pour les enfants victimes de troubles de l'attention.
Malgré les nombreuses connaissances sur le TDAH, de nombreuses questions restent ouvertes en la matière. L'hyperactivité existe-t-elle vraiment ou est-ce un phénomène de mode? Quelles sont les conséquences sur la personne TDAH et son entourage? Existe-t-il une prise en charge efficace pour ce trouble?
Cet ouvrage se propose d'expliquer la nature de ce trouble,...
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A compassionate and accessible guide for parents whose children have experienced traumatic or life-threatening events written by one of the foremost authorities on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children and adolescents. Dr. Scheeringa understands the desperation many parents feel and explains the impact of trauma, simplifies the science into layman's terms, debunks the myths, and provides direction on navigating the confusing maze of the...
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La génération Internet, autrement appelée génération iGen, est arrivée.
La génération Internet, autrement appelée génération iGen, est arrivée.
Nés à partir de 1995, ces jeunes ont grandi avec un téléphone portable au creux de la main, avaient un compte Instagram avant d'entrer au lycée et ne se souviennent pas de l'époque avant Internet. L'omniprésence du smartphone parmi les adolescents a engendré des répercussions dans tous...
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When six-year-old Lucinda suffers horrendous abuse, her mind splinters, and she dissociates so that she doesn't have to deal with the pain. As memories reappear, like flashes of lightning in a black sky, she writes them down, and realizes that she is broken. Like a jigsaw puzzle with pieces missing, she must put herself back together.
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Were you raised by a narcissist? This essential guide will show you how to stop feeling invisible, quiet your critical inner voice, and start living life on your own terms.
Did you grow up with a mother who was controlling or manipulative? Was she emotionally or psychologically abusive toward you? Did she make you feel ashamed, rejected, or "crazy?" Was it all about her, all of the time? When your mother is a narcissist, it can damage and invalidate...
20) Lillian: A True Story of Multiple Personality Disorder: Based on a memoir by Jean Baker Reynolds
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For most of us, the varied parts of our personalities are woven together and unified by our memories. But what happens when we have no memories? What happens when the components of memory (facts, feelings, and body states) are split apart and no longer relate to each other?
When this story began more than 40 years ago, doctors and psychiatrists were mystified by patients with more than one personality. The diagnosis at the time was Multiple Personality...
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