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Child Language: A Resource Book for Students

By Jean Stilwell Peccei (formerly at Roehampton University, UK)

Jean Piaget: Critical Assessments

By Leslie Smith

Play and Learning

By Brian Sutton-Smith

How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood

By Emma Byrne

S/NVQ Level 3 Children's Care, Learning and Development Candidate Handbook (S/NVQ Children's Care Learning and Development)

By Tassoni, Penny, Bulman, Ms Kath, Beith, Ms Kate, Robinson, Maria

Beyond Love and Work: Why Adults Need to Play

By Leonore Terr

Changing Childhoods: Local and Global

By Heather Montgomery, Rachel Burr, Martin Woodhead

Violence in Children and Adolescents

By Ved P Varma

Families and the Mental Health System for Children and Adolescents: Policy, Services, and Research

By Craig Anne Heflinger, Carol T. Nixon

Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention

By Jack P. Shonkoff (Brandeis University, Massachusetts), Samuel J. Meisels (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Edward F. Zigler (Yale University, Connecticut)

Teenagers in the Family

By Debi Roker, John C. Coleman, Ph. D., Claire Rayner

Children Who Commit Acts of Serious Interpersonal Violence: Messages for Best Practice

By Renuka Jeyarajah Dent, Ann Hagell

Understanding 6-7-Year-Olds

By Corinne Aves, Jonathan Bradley

Your Child from 5-11

By Jennie Lindon, Lance Lindon

Antisocial Behavior by Young People: A Major New Review

By Michael Rutter (MRC Child Psychiatry Unit, London), Henri Giller, Ann Hagell

Children Speak: Children, Trauma and Social Work

By Ian Butler, Howard Williamson

Making Residential Care Work: Structure and Culture in Children's Homes

By Elizabeth Brown, Roger Bullock, Caroline Hobson, Michael Little (all of Darlington Social Research Unit)

Handbook of Adolescent Psychology

By RM Lerner

Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

By Jonathan Hill (Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital), Barbara Maughan (Institute of Psychiatry, London)

Cycles of Child Maltreatment: Facts, Fallacies and Interventions

By Ann Buchanan (University of Oxford, UK)

Violent Children and Adolescents: Asking the Question Why?

By Gwyneth Boswell (De Montfort Ubiversity, Leicester)

Handbook of Interventions that Work with Children and Adolescents: Prevention and Treatment

By Paula M. Barrett (Griffith University, Australia), Thomas H. Ollendick (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)

Childwatching at Playgroup and Nursery School

By Kathy Sylva, etc.

How We Know What Isn't So

By Thomas Gilovich

Paths to Successful Development: Personality in the Life Course

By Lea Pulkkinen (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland), Avshalom Caspi (Institute of Psychiatry, London)

When Father Kills Mother: Helping Children Move Through Trauma and Grief

By Dora Black, Jean Harris Hendriks, Tony Kaplan

The Role of the Father in Child Development

By Michael E. Lamb

Promoting Children's Emotional Well-being: Messages from Research

By Ann Buchanan (Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research, Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research, University of Oxford), Barbara Hudson (Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Research, Department of Applied Soc...

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn out the Way They Do

By Harris, Judith Rich

The Mental Health Needs of Looked After Children

By Joanna Richardson, Carol Joughin