Child and Youth Care

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.