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T.A. for Teens and Other Important People (Transactional Analysis for Everybody Series ; #5)

Alvyn M. Freed, Regina Faul-Jansen

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Guides teenagers in building satisfying relationships with other people through transactional analysis.

Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children: Guidelines for the Management of Common Illness...

WHO

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WHO has done it's job 5 out of 5 stars.
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This little book is published by the World Health Organization. You can download it for free from the WHO web site. However it is handier in hard copy. The WHO succeeded admirablly with this book. It is an outstanding reference for a poor rural hospital with few resources. If you have any interest in 3rd world medicine this book is worth buying.

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This pocket book is for use by doctors, senior nurses and other senior health workers who are responsible for the care of young children at the first referral level in developing countries. It presents up-to-date clinical guidelines which are based on a review of the available published evidence by subject experts, for both inpatient and outpatient care in small hospitals where basic laboratory facilities and essential drugs and inexpensive medicines are available. In some settings, these guidelines can be used in the larger health centres where a small number of sick children can be admitted for inpatient care.

Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

Jonathan Kozol

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind 5 out of 5 stars.
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Jonathan Kozol has dedicated his work on bringing light to the inequalities that exist within our nation. These inequalities are best seen, unfortunately but not unexpectedly, along racial lines. "Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation" is a book with a lot of questions, a lot of shocking information, but not a lot of answers; if only because the answers may not exist. It is a stunning look at the deep disparity between rich and poor within our nation.

Kozol focuses on the South Bronx ghetto of Mott Haven, the poorest borough in New York, clearly segregated from the middle and upper classes, where two-thirds of the population are Hispanic and one-third African-American. Through interviews with school children, teachers, ministers, and community members, Kozol paints a bleak picture of the equally bleak lives led by those who live in this area. He recounts stories of buildings where wires have been eaten through by rats that are the size of squirrels, of drugs being bought and sold openly on the streets (although the drug dealers have enough respect to break when school lets out), and of families too numerous to count who are being killed off one by one by AIDS. The way these children see the world is frightenly dead-on; they know when they're not wanted because it's proven to them everyday in the way they have to live.

"Amazing Grace" is not an easy read due to its topic matter. Kozol's style is matter-of-fact, made up of usually uninterrupted comments by those he's interviewed, sometimes with his questions thrown in, and his own comments and hypotheses as to how this can go on. But Kozol doesn't necessarily have answers or even blame. Surely, some blame has to go to a system that keeps the poorest people with the least chance for success segregated from others, a separation of the haves and have nots to the greatest degree. And certainly others would place the blame on the poor people themselves. Perhaps it's a combination of a lot of factors, not one or the other, but what is certain is that too little is being done (or maybe can be done) to make a difference before it is too late.

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The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods.

Families by Law: An Adoption Reader

Naomi Cahn, Joan Hollinger

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Since the mid-19th century, American law has recognized adoption as a way to create parent-child relationships. As the product of law, rather than blood, adoptive families have become a focal point for debates about the meaning of family, the rights and responsibilities of parents, and the best interests of children.

Families by Law brings together diverse perspectives on contemporary aspects of adoption law and practice. Following a historical overview of adoption in American law and society, the reader presents different responses to concerns about who may place children for adoption, the status of birth parents, who may adopt, and the legal and psychosocial consequences of adoption. The new frontiers of adoption are explored: from transracial and intercountry adoption, adoption by same sex couples, and the adoption of children with special needs, to the movements for opening records and maintaining post-adoption contact between adoptive and birth families. The relationship between adoption and assisted reproductive technologies is discussed, as are feminist, economic, and philosophical perspectives on adoption and procreation. The volume includes statutes and cases, advocacy organization statements, and pieces from legal scholars, social scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists in order to provide a wealth of information about the contemporary dimensions of adoption.

Families by Law provides undergraduates, as well as law, social welfare, and public policy graduate students and others interested in family relationships with a multifaceted context for understanding the complexities of contemporary family life.

Childhood Socialization (Social Problems and Social Issues)

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This collection of authoritative studies portrays how the basic agencies of socialization transform the newborn human organism into a social person capable of interacting with others. Socialization differs from one society to another and within any society from one segment to another. "Childhood Socialization" samples some of that variation, giving the reader a glimpse of socialization in contexts other than those with which he or she is likely to be familiar. In the years since publication of the first edition of this book in 1988, childhood has become a territory open to broader sociological investigation. In this revised edition, Gerald Handel has selected and gathered new contributions that analyze the agents of socialization, including family, school, and peer group, and explore the influences of television and gender. The balance of classical studies and more recent work reflecting changes in the family structure renews the centrality of this anthology for courses in the social psychology of children up to adolescence. The book is divided into nine parts: "Socialization, Individuation, and the Self'; "Historical Changes in Attitudes Toward Children"; "Families as Socialization Agents"; "Daycare and Nursery School as Socialization Agents"; "Schools as Socialization Agents"; "Peer Groups as Socialization Agents"; "Television and its Influence"; "Gender Socialization"; and "Social Stratification and Inequality in Socialization." While socialization continues on into the adolescent and adult years, childhood socialization is primary, essential in creating the human person and in shaping the identity, outlook, skills, and resources of the evolving person. "Childhood Socialization" is a dynamic volume that will be of continuing interest to students and scholars of family studies, sociology, psychology, and modern culture.

Teen Moms: The Pain and the Promise (Teen Pregnancy and Parenting series)

Evelyn Lerman

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Analyzes the causes, emphasizes the importance of addressing the problem, and offers aggressive solutions to end the teen pregnancy epidemic. Backed up with solid research, the heart of this book is the reality the young mothers discuss. An eye-opening resource, ideal for group discussion with adults and teenagers.

The Silent Twins

Marjorie Wallace

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"Vulnerable as flowers in hell" 4 out of 5 stars.
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The author means well, but I think the girls might have been better served simply by reprinting relevant entries from the voluminous diaries, with a minimum of commentary. As other reviewers have pointed out, Wallace seems quite confused by the girls and her narrative lacks important details as a result.

June and Jennifer stayed in Broadmoor hospital until 1993, when they were to be remanded to a more appropriate facility. Originally, they had had an understanding that if one of them should die, the other must begin to speak normally and tell their story to the world. By the time of their release, they had come to believe that they not only needed to be physically separate, but that in order for one to live a normal life, the other would have to die.

In an Observer (Guardian Unlimited) article following the deaths of the Bijani sisters, July 13, 2003, Wallace reports having tea with the Gibbons girls just before their release, at which time Jennifer informed her that she had decided to die, leaving the way open for June. Ten days later, they left Broadmoor, and Jennifer promptly leaned on June's shoulder and went unconscious. She died at 6:30 that evening. The autopsy showed a virulent inflammation of the heart. The doctors were unable to identify the source. To this day, Jennifer's death is a mystery, and June lives in their old hometown, near their parents. She revealed their complete story in an issue of Harper's magazine in late '93, with a followup called "We Two Made One", reprinted in the New Yorker for 12-4-2000. The song "Tsunami" by the Manic Street Preachers is based on their story.

We should love to see "Pepsi-Cola Addict", "Discomania", "Taxi-Driver's Son" and especially "The Pugilist" published in America.

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This is the astonishing tale of June and Jennifer Gibbons, identical twins whose silent, antisocial exterior hid a rich, vast, creative life. From their early childhood through their twenties, they spoke only to each other in a secret language, building an elaborated fantasy life. From their self-imposed isolation, they were catapulted into the hormonal havoc of adolescence - plunging into a wild spree that ultimately led to their incarceration in a hospital for the criminally insane.

The Development of Children

Michael Cole, Sheila R. Cole

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By far one of my counseling textbook favorites. 5 out of 5 stars.
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Cole & Cole's work is by far one of my favorite textbooks. The reason? The authors methodically lay out child development from a biopsychosocial perspective, which is no small feat.

They write with a thoroughness and efficiency that you will rarely find in a textbook. Their treatment of child development is evenhanded, not privilaging either the bio, psycho, or social perspectives.

Buy this for life 5 out of 5 stars.
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Edward Gibbon wrote the "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" and Mike Cole and his colleagues have written a work of equal stature on the making of human beings. This is an encyclopedia of human development from single cell to adolesence. Though a leader of the cultural psychology school of development, this work includes every theory and subtheory of development around, each bringing its particular insights at the appropriate point in the story - part eclectically, part critically, but always comprehensively. Frequent break-outs take up issues of controversy, the photographs and illustrations are magnificent. Each chapter is constructed with study questions, summaries etc, making it suitable for systematic study, written by a consummate educator. This book will do you for life; use it from your first lecture in your "Early Childhood studies" course, or for that matter, libguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, till your first research project, keep it while your kids grow up, use it when composing your journalistic articles about social issues, and re-read it for sheer enlightenment. I can't say that this book is the last word on the topic, because I know that the Coles will put out a sixth edition before long and the story will go on!

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Michael and Sheila Cole's acclaimed chronologically organized text tells the story of development as a fusion of biological, social, and psychological processes interacting in the medium of culture. The Coles' bring the excitment of scientific research and years of experience with children to a book designed to enrich students' understanding of their own lives and the process of development.

How to Help a Clumsy Child: Strategies for Young Children With Developmental Motor Concerns

Lisa A. Kurtz

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This reads like a thesis 2 out of 5 stars.
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I would recommend this book stay in the professional field for the experts looking for corriculum, data, and findings. I purchased this book because the Occupational Therapist my 2 year old visits weekly suggested I read up on "The Clumsy Child."
I found this book on Amazon. It reads more like a Master's Thesis than it does a book to help parents understand their children who suffer from clumsiness. It defined some things for me that I was not fully understanding, but I didn't find it helpful as a parent relating to a Clumsy Child.

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Meal-times, getting dressed, learning to write and playing sports can all be difficult for a child with coordination difficulties. How to Help a Clumsy Child is a practical resource manual for parents and professionals, offering sensible advice on how to recognize normal and abnormal motor development, how to seek help and specific teaching strategies to help a clumsy child in the classroom, playground and home.

Discussing diverse approaches to coordination problems, including reviews of controversial therapies, Lisa Kurtz uses clear diagrams and tables along with extensive contact information to make this an essential and accessible resource.

Robbed of Humanity: Lives of Guatemalan Street Children

Nancy Leigh Tierney

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An essential work for Latin Americanists, urban sociologists, human rights/children's rights advocates, and testimonial literature enthusiasts.

An in-depth look at Guatemala's homeless children, ROBBED OF HUMANITY provides an analysis of the social conditions that send children--unprotected--to the streets and what they encounter.

ROBBED OF HUMANITY provides an in-depth look at the reality that children confront each day on Guatemala's streets. Beyond reporting the abuses that momentarily capture international headlines, this work analyzes the conditions that compel children to leave their homes, relationships they form on the streets, survival strategies they employ, and the near constant harassment and brutality they suffer from police and private citizens.

Using more than 100 documented cases of abuse, ROBBED OF HUMANITY explores the motives behind this systematic mistreatment of street youth and examines the limited response of Guatemalans to these atrocities. This is considered within the context of their country's culture of terror and pervasive elite ideals and religious norms that discount the reality of destitute children. ROBBED OF HUMANITY contributes to an understanding of street children's lives through the riveting testimonies of the children themselves.

Background: According to the UN, there are 150 million street children in the world, 40 percent in Latin America. This book helps the reader understand why these young people are on the streets. It gives an inside look into their desolate lives and the astonishing spirit that sustains them.