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A Child's Brain: The Need for Nurture
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Sylwester, Robert – Corwin, 2010
The author has written this latest volume to help parents and educators understand children's cognitive development and provide suggestions on how to nurture children to their full potential. A companion to "The Adolescent Brain", this rich resource: (1) Examines the neurobiology of childhood, explaining the body/brain systems that develop during…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Child Health, Intelligence Quotient, Information Technology
Paying Attention to Children in a Changing Health Care System: Summaries of Workshops.
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Board on Children and Families. – 1996
The complexity and constantly changing dimensions of national discussions about health care reform hold the risk that special problems of children and pregnant women will be overlooked. This monograph summarizes two workshops which discussed the important health policy issues presented by children and pregnant women that should be addressed by any…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance
Handle with Care: Helping Children Prenatally Exposed to Drugs and Alcohol.
Villarreal, Sylvia Fernandez; And Others – 1992
Intended for teachers and caregivers who deal with children exposed prenatally to substance abuse, this book gives a general overview of the problem of prenatal substance exposure, describes some of the common issues for children living in drug and alcohol involved families, and offers some practical suggestions for helping these children and…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare
Caring for You and Your Baby: From Pregnancy through the First Year of Life.
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Fairview Health Services. – 1997
Prepared by the Maternal and Newborn Services staff at a health care system affiliated with the University of Minnesota, this book is designed as several resources in one, encompassing pregnancy, childbirth, infant care, child development, baby keepsakes, medical records, and journal-keeping. The book provides authoritative, up-to-date information…
Descriptors: Birth, Child Development, Child Health, Child Rearing
Measuring Lead Exposure in Infants, Children, and Other Sensitive Populations.
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 1993
Adverse health effects from exposure to lead are now recognized to be among industrialized society's most important health problems. This report, prepared by the National Research Council's Committee on Measuring Lead Exposure in Critical Populations, concurs with new findings issued by the Centers for Disease Control which state that lead…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Biochemistry, Child Health, Children
Kids Learn from the Inside Out: How To Enhance the Human Matrix.
Randolph, Shirley L.; And Others – 1994
Noting that humans develop according to a genetically encoded timeline and that departure from the timeline limits human potential, this book provides an illustrated practical guide to intervention to help children's bodies work as they should, to nurture children along their developmental timeline, to help children learn "from the inside…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Development, Behavior Problems, Child Health
Risk Resilience and Prevention: Promoting the Well-Being of All Children.
Simeonsson, Rune J., Ed. – 1994
This book argues that a paradigmatic change of emphasis is needed from treatment to prevention in order to promote the well being of children and to reverse many of the social problems children face today. Written for an interdisciplinary audience, the book is divided into three sections. The first section provides a framework and overview of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Child Abuse, Child Behavior