Child Psychology

Part 1
Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child
by Carol Bowman
Has your child lived before? In this fascinating, controversial, and groundbreaking book, Carol Bowman reveals overwhelming evidence of past life memories in children. Not only are such experiences real, they are far more common than most people realize.

Children Experiencing Addiction in the Family
by SAMHSA
Alcoholism and drug addiction is taking a toll on the American family. As a result, 8.3 million children in the United States, approximately 11 percent, live with at least one parent who is in need of treatment for alcohol- or drug-dependency.

It's All in the Family: Mental Health Link Between Parents and Children
by SAMHSA
From eye color to favorite foods, you and your kids share many things. But researchers now believe that you may share something more-mental health problems. Findings from the University of Washington's Kids Count project show that the emotional well-being

Children with Mental Disorders
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
There has been public concern over reports that very young children are being prescribed psychotropic medications. The studies to date are incomplete, and much more needs to be learned about young children who are treated with medications for all kinds

Taking a Step on the Healing Path
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
In all truth, ADD cannot be treated in seven minutes or in seven days, and probably cannot be treated in a doctor's office. It has to be approached in the home, where there is a higher calling than just getting a child to be quiet and conform to the rules

Sharing the Journey
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
I did not begin to write this book last year or the year before that. I started this book when I was born, and I have edited it ever since. My birth was an ordeal for both my mother and me. She was given too much pain medication, by accident.

Foreword by Dr. Phil McGraw
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a major challenge for many families in this century. The needs and unresolved challenges of children with ADD are affecting virtually every school in this nation, and a high number of adult issues in the workplace have

But Kids Should Seem Smarter!
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
Logically, one might expect that major changes in a generation of brains would show up on IQ tests. Do today's kids also get lower scores on them? No! Students today - at least the young ones - actually appear to score better than the children of previous

Why We Shouldn't Trust the Tests
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
This fiasco only illustrates what educational psychologists already realize; strange goings-on sometimes occur in the name of 'testing.' Test results, in fact, can be quite misleading estimates of just how well, or how poorly, children can read.

The Crisis in Reading
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
The state of literacy in the United States today is declining so precipitously, while video and computer technologies are becoming so powerful, that the act of reading itself may well be on the way to obsolescence.

What's Happening to the Test Scores?
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
In a highbrow private school in Manhattan, a college counselor laments, 'Look at these verbal SAT scores! How am I ever going to get these kids into the colleges their parents want?'

Kids' Brains Must Be Different ...
Endangered Minds: Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It
by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
'Kids' brains must be different these days,' I remarked half jokingly as I graded student essays in the faculty room late one afternoon. 'If I didn't think it was impossible, I would agree with you,' chimed in a colleague who had experienced

Reader's Guide
The Burn Journals
by Brent Runyon
To fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon, life has become a haze of small failures. He hates himself for liking the same girl his best friend likes. His recent suicide attempts-sliced wrists, handfuls of pills, hangings-have left him very much alive

The Burn Journals
The Burn Journals
by Brent Runyon
In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and lit a match. He suffered third-degree burns over 85% of his body and spent the next year recovering in hospitals and rehab facilities.

Today Is My Birthday
The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood
by Ellen Handler Spitz, Ph.D.
Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz looks at how children feel, sense, and relate to what is around them, and she examines the unlimited imaginative dimensions of their everyday experiences.

Speaking of the Nature of Boys
Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Raising Sons
by Michael Thompson, Ph.D., Teresa Barker
Q: This may sound like a stupid question, but I am an expectant mother, and we know it will be a boy. I've never had any experience around little boys. I never had any brothers and my sisters never had boys.

Nature's Contribution: The Biology of Emotions
Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start
by Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D.
NEWS FLASH! There's More to Mothering Than Meets the Eye, Scientists Discover. New York, New York. What happens when Mommy Rat runs away from home, leaving her litter of pups to fend for themselves? They get hungry-very hungry. No surprise there.

The part I hated most...
Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood
by Julie Gregory
I mean, if you're a twelve-year-old girl, how much hair can you have on your chest? But they'd lather me up anyway and run a new plastic Bic between my barely-there breasts. They needed me smooth and hairless so the little white pads would stick to those

Chapter 1
Acquainted with the Night : A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
by Paul Raeburn
It is the spring of 1996, after Alex's first hospitalization. He is 11 years old and in the fifth grade. He has left the hospital with no diagnosis. No one has told us what treatment he needs, or how we should proceed.

Hurricanes and Land Mines
Through the Glass Wall : A Therapist's Lifelong Journey to Reach the Children of Autism
by Howard Buten, Ph.D.
I work with the autistic, in France. I founded an institution there, a day clinic dedicated to the treatment of extreme cases. I have always been most interested in extreme cases. When I was a child I wanted to be a doctor-I didn't want to become a doctor