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Handbook of Children and Screens = Digital Media, Development, and Well-Being…
This open access handbook synthesizes the current research about the impacts of digital media on children across development. Drawing on the expertise of scientists and researchers as well as clinicians and practitioners, the book summarizes research through interdisciplinary expert reviews. First, it addresses the cognitive, physical, mental, and psychosocial impacts on infants, children, and …
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- 1
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- 9783031693625
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- XLI, 657 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Functional Somatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents = A Stress-System App…
This open access book sets out the stress-system model for functional somatic symptoms in children and adolescents. The book begins by exploring the initial encounter between the paediatrician, child, and family, moves through the assessment process, including the formulation and the treatment contract, and then describes the various forms of treatment that are designed to settle the child’s …
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- 1
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- 9783030461843
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- XXXI, 383 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children = A Heterodoxical…
This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years in the United States and worldwide. The book explores why boys have modestly larger math test score means than girls, and why girls have far larger re…
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- 1
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- 9783031412721
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- XII, 108 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children
This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years in the United States and worldwide. The book explores why boys have modestly larger math test score means than girls, and why girls have far larger re…
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- 978-3-031-41271-4
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- XII, 108
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Violence in Schools
This forward-looking monograph distills the current knowledge base on lethal school shootings for school professionals invested in improving school safety. Divided between correlates, interventions, and prevention, it begins with the Virginia Tech massacre as exemplifying the kinds of personal, environmental and social dynamics that commonly result in lethal violence on campus. Bullying as a ca…
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- 978-3-319-13912-8
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Group-Centered Prevention in Mental Health Theory, Training, and Practice
This book presents the concept of group-centered prevention and provides explanations and exercises for learning the method and teaching it to others. Detailed studies offer evidence for the continuing importance of prevention in mental well-being and distinguishes group-centered prevention from other group interventions by its ability to resolve incipient mental health issues and emotional pro…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-19101-0
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- XVII, 165
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Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prev…
The Second Edition of the Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems clarifies the current state of treatment and prevention through comprehensive examinations of mental disorders and dysfunctional behaviors as well as the varied forces affecting their development. New or revised chapters offer a basic framework for approaching mental health concerns in youth and provide the latest information …
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- 2
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- 978-981-4560-43-6
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- XXXIII, 697
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- 150 HAN
Boredom in the Classroom: Addressing Student Motivation, Self-Regulation, and…
This brief synthesizes current findings on the many aspects of chronic student boredom, its relationship with negative academic, emotional, and health outcomes, and what professionals can do to best address it. Citing the complexity of this common student emotion, the author spotlights boredom susceptibility during the critical K-12 years. The brief analyzes cognitive and emotional attributes o…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-13120-7
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- VII, 88
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- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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- 150
COMPASS and Implementation Science
This Brief examines COMPASS – the Collaborative Model for Promoting Competence and Success – a consultation-based intervention specialized for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Based on the Evidence-Based Practices in Psychology (EBPP) framework, the volume describes the processes that strengthen the expert support relationships between consultant and teacher (i.e., implementati…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-18554-5
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- XIII, 101
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- SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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- 100
Treating Adolescents with Family-Based Mindfulness
A new take on therapeutic mindfulness with specific applications to troubled and delinquent youth is the focus of this innovative text. It introduces Family Mode Deactivation Therapy (FMDT) and its core concepts and methodologies, differentiating it from other cognitive and mindfulness therapies for adolescents with problem behaviors and comorbid conditions. Step by step applications of FMDT fr…
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- 978-3-319-12700-2
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