books about: lifespan     books:       Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behavior: A Guide for Parents of Children with Behavioral, Social, and ...16 reviews Steven E., Ph.D. Curtis Lifespan Press, 2008 An important guide when you need it most Any parent concerned about her child's emotions or behavior has enough to deal with. Navigating the psychotherapy world can be confusing and frustrating. Dr. Curtis provides a very thoughtful and thorough guide to getting the answers and help you need. The Glossary of Terms is especially helpful and the section on Parent Resources is invaluable. As a parent and a child psychologist I highly ...             Autobiography of Alexander Luria: A Dialogue with the Making of Mind9 reviews Michael Cole, Karl Levitin, ... Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005 review of 2005 life story of Alexander Romanovich Luria In this 2005 book, the life of Alexander Romanovich Luria is composed through various attempts to understand and preserve that life. With the additional sections of this book (prologue, epilogue, DVD) that enhance his original autobiography, the reader comes away with the notion that it often takes a few different versions and perspectives to weave together a mosaic of a life and come away with a ...             Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul14 reviews Stuart Brown, Christopher Vaughan Avery, 2009 Evolutionary, Social & Existential Value of Play Explained A clearly presented, detail rich book on evolutionary valence of play. Brown examines the issue from a variety of perspectives: neural plasticity, social norming, existential meaning. Brown offers an excellent blueprint for leveraging meaning, productivity, quality of life and wellness through incorporating play. The book is rich with psychological, social and occupational implications. Brown ...             Theories of Development: WITH Social Psychology (4th Revised Edition) AND Onekey Blackboard Access Card7 reviews William Crain Prentice Hall, 2005 A+ As textbooks go, I found this one very readable - not as dense as most. It was a required text for my ed psych class. It's clear and easy to follow as an introduction to the different theories of developmental psychology.             Beautiful in Black: Conversations With Suicide5 reviews Sara Shai BlueSkyChateau, 2006 Uplifting story of tragedy This is a story not just of suicide but of the courage to create a life out of poverty and family dysfunction to achieve great success and to meet and marry the man of her dreams. Suicide brought an end to the partnership but the story provides the perspectives that allow her to go beyond the tragedy of her partner's mental illness and untimely end to create a life in a new country. It is a story ...             Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill?6 reviews Jonathan H. Pincus W.W. Norton & Co., 2002 A Very Fine Effort The point of this fairly slim volume is to convince the reader that many (perhaps the vast majority) of our most dangerous criminals have neurologic impairments, and that brain dysfunction, along with child abuse and paranoid thinking, is at the heart of much violent behavior. This is not an entirely new message, but it is one Pincus approaches with a great deal of authority -- he's a professor ...             Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training21 reviews Patrick Williams, Diane S. Menendez W. W. Norton & Company, 2007 Very useful for even a novice I am training to become a life coach, and I found this book to be extremely useful. It provides you with just the right answers from the very source of all coaching out there. I highly recommend this book.             Cengage Advantage Books: Human Development: A Life-Span View7 reviews Robert V. Kail, John C. Cavanaugh Wadsworth Publishing, 2009 Nice textbook , useful and not a rip off price I bought this textbook for one of my classes and found it very useful and at a reasonable price, not a rip off like in our UIC textbook store where they do a good business on us, students             Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome: A Guide to Emotional and Behavioral Strengths and Challenges13 reviews Dennis McGuire, Brian Chicoine Woodbine House, 2006 One of the best books in the field. Period. Must own. I work in the healthcare field with persons with Mild Mental Retardation including Down's Syndrome. I'm also a grad student and have taken several courses in this area. This book is a revelation. The first thing that's great is that it's a practical manual specific to just Down's (most caregiver manuals are so broad as to be virtually useless). This book has answers to real world problems culled ...             Becoming A Stepfamily: Patterns of Development in Remarried Families ("Gestalt Institute of Cleveland Book ...4 reviews Patricia L Papernow The Analytic Press, 1993 Comments on Papernow's "Becoming a Stepfamily" I am a stepfamily therapist and researcher, and an invited member of the Stepfamily Association of America's Advisory Council. I have read over 40 lay and clinical books on stepfamilies and stepparenting since 1979. "Bocoming a Stepfamily" is one of the two best ones I have read, on a complex and controversial subject. The other is Margaret Newman's "Stepfamily Realities." A major plus for ...             Essentials of Life-Span Development3 reviews John Santrock McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2007 Book for school. I am really glad I read this book for school. Very easy to understand and learn from.             Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change (Bradford Books)4 reviews Bruce E. Wexler The MIT Press, 2006 Courageous Insights Relevant to Every One of Us The study of psychology has traveled down some interesting roads during the last century. After the long flirtation with the fascinating but flawed theories of psychoanalysis, a dominant theme became the idea that humans were no more than programmable robots. By way of a dozen detours, we then arrived at a new type of robot, one that was pre-programmed by his or her genes with environment ...             Adolescence (Study Guide)2 reviews Paul S. Kaplan, Christine M. Vanchella Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 A very readable and definitive textbook! Dr.Kaplan explains the physical and psychological transformations that occur as a child enters adolescence. She covers the evolution of sexuality and morality, socialization, the problems of modern youths and contemporary issues such as eating disorders.             Human Development4 reviews Grace J. Craig Prentice Hall College Div, 1998 Excellent resource I used the eighth edition of this book for my graduate level course in human development. It is an excellent resource for anyone involved in child-related fields.             The Created Self: Reinventing Body, Persona, Spirit4 reviews Robert J. Weber W.W. Norton & Co., 2001 Exploring the self The Created Self is a traveler's tale, a historical and cultural journey, a psychological meditation profiling that most compelling of characters--Our Self. Weber explores the human persona in all its many forces and forms-- evolutionary, physical, societal and spiritual, in defining what constitutes our creative, ever-changing selves. A fascinating read.             Primary Care Across the Lifespan3 reviews Pamela S. Kidd PhD ARNP CEN FNP-C FAAN, Karen M. Rogers RNC MSN Mosby, 1999 A "must" for any nurse practitioner and/or student Primary Care Across the Lifespan was first recommended to me when I first became a nurse practitioner student at Georgia State University. Numerous books had been recommended throughout my program, but I found this particular text to be most helpful. It is concise, well organized and easy to use. Being a family nurse practitoner student, it was excellent because it focused on "care across the ...             Psychology and the Challenges of Life: Adjustment in the New Millennium3 reviews Spencer A. Rathus, Jeffrey S. Nevid Wiley, 2002 Psychology and the Challenges of Life textbook purchase I was pleased with this purchase, it was delivered quickly and in great condition. It is good that the publisher allowed a look inside the book before I bought it to make sure it was the correct edition of the book. It also came with a study guide, which helped me in my class. Overall, I was happy with my purchase and I would buy from them again.             Onyourown.com: E-mail Messages to My Daughter3 reviews Bruce Bickel, Stan Jantz Barbour Publishing, Incorporated, 1999 thisisamustread.com I purchased onyourown.com on a whim, thinking that it would make a nice impromptu gift for my Pastor who has a daughter away at college. However, as I began skimming through the passages, I was touched and inspired by Bruce and Stan's heartfelt exchanges with their daughters. They said things that I wished my father had shared with me when I was growing up. My parents divorced when I was ...             The Dance of Life: Transform Your World Now!3 reviews Victor Vernon Woolf International Academy of Holodynamic, 2005 Enabling There are many people who are waking up spiritually, realizing the connectedness of all things. Some feel a calling to seek more meaning than physical stimulation, or habitual activity. A subset of those are also looking to reach out to others, assisting an evolution. This is your book! It is extremely technical and laced with very esoteric concepts, so it won't be everybody's Celestine ...             Human Development with PowerWeb4 reviews James Vander Zanden, Thomas Crandell, ... McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006 Buy it I have enjoyed the material that is in the book thus far. It has been very informative.          • Organic foods are produced according to certain production standards, meaning they are grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives. Livestock are reared without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones. 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