The Book Company: New Products - Developmental

Positive Aging (A Guide for Mental Health Professionals and Consumers)

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 01:12:27 +0000

Retirement, senility, disability, and death were all notions previously associated with growing old. Today, with the average life span of men and women in the United States exceeding 76 years, the words successful, optimal, and positive dominate the lexicon of scientists and, increasingly, the ge..

Price: $27.95

Parenting the Whole Child (A Holistic Child Psychiatrist Offers Practical Wisdom on Behavior, Brain Health, Nutrition, Exercise, Family Life, Peer Relationships, School Life, Trauma, Medication, and More . . .)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:49:14 +0000

Complementing his book for professionals, here Scott Shannon equips parents and caregivers with a better way to understand the mental health challenges their children face, including how cutting-edge scientific concepts like epigenetics and neuroplasticity mean new hope for overcoming them. Reader..

Price: $22.95

Executive Function & Child Development

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 22:01:34 +0000

Poor executive function (EF) in the brain can mean behavioral and attentional problems in school. This book explains to professionals and parents how EF develops in kids, what EF difficulties look like, and what creative and effective interventions can meet their needs. Executive functions involve..

Price: $24.95

Child Temperament (New Thinking About the Boundary Between Traits and Illness)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:41:13 +0000

What is the difference between a child who is temperamentally sad and one who has depression? Can a kid be angry by temperament without being mentally ill? How can two thrill-seeking parents end up with a shy, risk-averse child? The subject of personality and how we differ from one another behavi..

Price: $34.00

Infant Research & Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy (Expanding the Clinical Repertoire)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:35:17 +0000

By decoding the scientific data, this book explains how recent findings from brain and infant research can expand a clinician’s understanding of the therapist-client relationship and, in turn, improve how therapy is done. Offering clinical insights into key developmental mechanisms, Judith Rustin ..

Price: $29.95

Kundalini Yoga Meditation for Complex Psychiatric Disorders (Techniques Specific for Treating the Psychoses, Personality, and Pervasive Developmental Disorders)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:03:43 +0000

This comprehensive resource explains the yogic approach to treating psychiatric disorders that are not covered in Shannahoff-Khalsa’s first book, including the variants of schizophrenia; the ten variants of personality disorders that include borderline, paranoid, and obsessive-compulsive personali..

Price: $44.95

Magical Moments of Change (How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:37:50 +0000

Terr presents highly effective child psychotherapeutic styles and techniques and demonstrates them in three ways: by relating “moments” from at least six of her own cases; by conveying and comparing “moments” from 33 of her distinguished colleagues’ cases; and by watching her “wild child” patient,..

Price: $30.00

The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:37:05 +0000

Over the course of his esteemed career, he has received funding for hundreds of key studies in the US and abroad on normal and abnormal infant and child development—including his Mutual Regulation Model and Still-Face Paradigm, which revolutionized our understanding of infants’ emotional capacitie..

Price: $55.00

Infant/Child Mental Health, Early Intervention, and Relationship-Based Therapies (A Neurorelational Framework for Interdisciplnary Practice)

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:32:23 +0000

When early interventions with children fail, clinicians wonder: How could things have been different? The answers seem obvious at first, but a little reflection begins to unveil just how complicated this question really is. Who should have been included in the treatment? With what professionals an..

Price: $52.00

Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self

Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:31:03 +0000

In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking book, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, in which he integrated a large number of experimental and clinical studies from both the psychological and biological disciplines in order to construct an overarching model of social and emotional..

Price: $45.00