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Child Psychology Resources

Successful Teens (CD)

Self-Image For Children (CD)

Go For Your Goals: Goal Setting for Kids

The Anxiety Free Child Program

Better Behavior Wheel Parenting Tool

Discipline Your Kid The Right Way Without Shouting or Spanking

Child Anger Management for Parents

Total Focus - Comprehensive Program for Kids with ADHD

Brain Training To Improve Attention & Learning

Total Transformation - Parenting Strategies for Oppositional & Defiant Kids & Teens

Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World

Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid’s Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World is a parenting book written by Marybeth Hicks. She is an author and weekly columnist on family issues at the Washington Post. She is also a popular speaker on raising children in today’s world.

In her book she provides parents with information on [...]

Don’t Focus On Your Child’s Happiness!

Many parents strive to have happy kids.  In their efforts, they are loath to see their children upset and seem to do anything to allay the child’s consternation.  So, what child wants, child gets. Child doesn’t want, child doesn’t have to do.

There is a belief by these parents that their children will be naturally appreciative [...]

Two and Three-Year-Old Children are Excellent Negotiators

Torgeir Alvestad, a researcher from the University of Gothenberg in Sweden, has written a fascinating thesis paper based on studying the play of two and three-year olds.   He finds that children this age are able to negotiate during play. In these negotiations they demonstrated invention, creativity, enthusiasm, industry, involvement, activity and problem-solving strategies.

The results show [...]

New Study Find Signs of Schizophrenia in Babies

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University have found that signs of schizophrenia can be detected in babies as young as a few weeks old. Their study is published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is found in 1% of all individuals in the world, [...]

Binge Eating Severity Found to be Directly Related to Severity of Childhood Sexual or Emotional Abuse

Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is an eating disorder in which an individual eats large quantities of food, usually very quickly.  However, unlike Bulimia, the person does not “purge” the food by vomiting, use of laxatives, or excessive exercise.

A recent study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders by clinical psychologist David M. Dunkley and colleagues at the Jewish [...]