Child Development Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Report

Thomas R.M believes that studying and understanding the growth and development of a child is helpful to train the young on how to live well. Children differ in emotional growth, physical, social and cognitive patterns. Children differ even if they are identical twins. Think of a child; you will find out that their response to the play, affection, people, and objects be it living or non-living in their environment is very different. In this book, Thomas R.M helps us to understand children better by discussing the principles of child development, the brain growth, and development of a child. He ...

Introduction

‘Dibs in search of self’ by Virginia Axline presents series of chronicle play therapy sessions. It is an account that covers a year of therapy sessions for an emotionally crippled boy from a wealthy background. Although, ‘Dibs’, the boy shows the obvious signs of a gifted human being, their parents still insist that Dibs is mental retarded. This is because Dibs also present an abnormality in social behavior since he isolates himself from social contacts (Axline, 1964). Dibs further rarely speaks and physically lashes out at everyone including his parents, caretakers, sister and even classmates during school time. Throughout the ...

Introduction

Juvenile delinquency has long been a sensitive topic. It often encompasses the disciplines of morality, ethics, and criminal justice and law enforcement. The same is true for other hotly debated and related topics such as the over-criminalization of youths, youth policing, and the war on drugs and how it affects the mindset and social behavior of young people. There has also been numerous works that have been published about these topics. One of those was Punished Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. Punished was a book published by Victor Rios in 2011.
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Book review: Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition by Chandler H. Barbour, Nita H. Barbour and Patricia A. Scully

Introduction

Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition offers more choices for teachers and students than the previous editions. The authors are all educators and their combined experience easily reaches 100 years. Professor Chandler Barbour has retired from an elementary school teaching career but he is still actively involved as a volunteer to his community’s projects with public schools, church boards, directing a fishing advocacy group and as a member on a hospital board. He ...

- Welfare recipients and culture of poverty
- In the chapters 2 and 7 of the book Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of U.S welfare from the inside of the welfare office, and also from the inside of mothers involved in welfare. She aptly describes the challenges that recipients of welfare face in the management of their families, work. Moreover, she tells the regulations and rules that pertain to welfare reform. Her research is hands on because it involves one on one interaction with the welfare recipients. The hands-on approach she takes makes ...

Daniel A. Hughes, a leading figure in Attachment Therapy, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in attachment, child neglect, abuse and foster care. He assists therapists, family service programs, parents and social managers who need help treating attachment disorder in children (Hughes, 2000), work for which he has become globally acclaimed.
“Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children” (2006) is a detailed account of the meaning behind being a child damaged by systematic abuse and trauma. The book uses the story format to translate the affective charge of various principled techniques of caring for and healing a child in ...

The children’s book that I will discuss in this assignment is The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John Erikson. In this book, Hank the Cowdog is the main character and goes through several adventures. The book presents glory, guts, danger, and sacrifice in the life of Hank, who is the head of Ranch Security. The setting of the book is probably in the 1980s in Texas where it was written. In the beginning of this book, Drover, who is Hank’s assistant, comes to awakening him to the news of a murder of a chicken in the ranch. ...