A Therapist's Guide to Child Development: The Extraordinarily Normal Years [Paperback]

A Therapist's Guide to Child Development gives therapists and counselors the basics they need to understand their clients in the context of development and to explain development to parents. The chapters take the reader through the various physical, social, and identity developments occurring at each age, explaining how each stage of development is closely linked to mental health and how that is revealed in therapy. This ideal guide for students, as well as early and experienced professionals, will also give readers the tools to communicate successfully with the childs guardians or teachers, including easy-to-read handouts that detail what kind of behaviors are not cause for concern and which behaviors mean its time to seek help. As an aid to practitioners, this book matches developmental ages with appropriate, evidence-based mental health interventions.

I. Introduction&nbsp; 1. Overview of Child Devolpment Ray&nbsp; 2. Developmentally Appropriate Interventions&nbsp;Ray&nbsp; II. Early Childhood&nbsp; 3. Extraordinary Years: Birth to Two Ener&nbsp; 4. The Extraordinary Three-Year-Old Lee&nbsp; 5. The Extraordinary Four-Year-Old&nbsp;Ware&nbsp; III. Middle Childhood&nbsp; 6.&nbsp;The Extraordinary Five-Year-Old Taylor&nbsp; 7. The Extraordinary Six-Year-Old Jayne&nbsp; 8. The Extraordinary Seven-Year-Old Stulmaker&nbsp; 9. The Extraordinary Eight-Year-Old Akay&nbsp; IV. Late Childhood&nbsp; 10. The Extraordinary Nine-Year-Old Wilson&nbsp; 11. The Extraordinary Ten-Year-Old Ojiambo and Taylor&nbsp; 12. The Extraordinary Eleven-Year-Old Purswell&nbsp; 13. The Extraordinary Twelve-Year-Old <lӟ