Addressing development in all age-groups, including middle childhood and adolescenceon a topics involved in a pediatric well-child visit including: developmental and social-emotional milestones, adolescent development, mental health, behavioral concerns, toxic stress and resilience,
Provides a developmental framework for clinical practice; exploring how children of different ages typically behave, think and relate to other. Focuses on infancy, toddlerhood, the preschool years, and middle childhood.
This Toolkit provides practitioners with step-by-step assistance in planning, implementing, and evaluating Critical Service Learning (CSL) projects in elementary and high schools. CSL trains youth to become active and conscientious citizens through engagement and leadership experiences that meet real needs in the community.
Discusses the whole-child development, learning, and thriving through a dynamic systems theory lens that focuses on the United States and includes an analysis of historical challenges in the American public education system, including inequitable resources, opportunities, and outcomes.
Healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) development is a critical foundation for a productive adulthood. This book identifies the complexities of childhood influences and highlights the need for a tailored approach when implementing new policies and practices and provides a framework for a cohesive, multidisciplinary national approach to improving MEB health.
The aim of this book is to discuss the concepts, challenges, and successes related to developing character and moral decision making in students of a variety of ages.
Explores normative adolescent development, the current landscape of adolescent risk behavior, core components of effective programs focused on optimal health, and recommendations for research, programs, and policies.
Based on well-established therapeutic principles, this book offers practical guidance for setting up and running social skills sessions. Includes an overview of social communication theory and the principles of groupwork which forms a solid foundation for the session and activity guidance.
Integrating diverse perspectives on how humans understand others' minds (or ‘theory of mind') beyond early childhood into middle childhood and adolescence this book explores how the neural, cognitive, and social changes of middle childhood and adolescence shape the ongoing development of theory of mind, and how theory of mind helps children navigate their lives.
Written by the Association for Childhood Education International which is a non-profit agency. The publication focuses specifically on the experience of childhood around the world.
"The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario is a pediatric health and research center providing outstanding family-centered patient care, pioneering breakthrough research, and training the health care professionals of tomorrow."
The Best Start Network is dedicated to creating a comprehensive integrated system of services that support families with children from birth through the transition into school.