Stuart Shanker

Stanley I. Greenspan

In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking, and culture. In The First Idea, Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker explore this missing link and offer brilliant new insights into two longstanding questions: how human beings first create symbols and how these abilities evolved and were transmitted across generations over millions of years. From fascinating research into the intelligence of both human infants and apes, they identify certain cultural practices that are vitally important if we are to have stable and reflective future societies.

How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans

The First Idea

Serena Wieder

Offers guidelines to parents of children with developmental challenges

Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth

The Child with Special Needs

Most children fall into five basic personality types that stem from inborn physical characteristics: the sensitive child, the self-absorbed child, the defiant child, the inattentive child, and the active/aggressive child. Stanley Greenspan, M.D., is the first to show parents how to match their parenting to the challenges of their particular child. He identifies and vividly describes these five universal temperaments and then, with great empathy, shows parents how each of these children actually experiences the world and how to use daily childrearing to enhance an individual child's strengths and talents.

Understanding, Raising, and Enjoying the Five ""Difficult"" Types of Children

The Challenging Child

Parents all over the world have certain universal aspirations. They want their children to contribute meaningfully to society and to pursue their own dreams. But we appear to be missing the essentials. In this inspiring book, based on 30 years of research and practice, Dr. Stanley Greenspan redefines the qualities of an emotionally and intellectually healthy child and identifies the ways that parents can help their children develop each quality. The qualities that make us call a child a “great kid,” such as empathy, curiosity, and logical thinking, are fundamental and underlie all the academic, athletic, and social talents that a child might develop. We are not born with these traits, Greenspan demonstrates, they come from experience, which suggests that each and every parent can encourage them and that each and every child can strive to acquire them.

Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life

Great Kids

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

Greenspan outlines the six stages of emotional growth in early childhood and explores the ways in which they are communicated, emphasizing parental interaction as the key to a child's healthy, emotional maturation.

Milestones in the Emotional Development of Your Baby and Child

First Feelings

The clinical assessment, treatment, and prevention of emotional, behavioral, and developmental problems in infancy and early childhood may be the most important frontier in the behavioral sciences. There has not, however, been a definitive text on how to actually work clinically with infants, young children, and their families until Infancy and Early Childhood. This comprehensive handbook is the first in the field to provide a systematic, clinically based, practical frame of reference. Completely written by Stanley Greenspan, M.D.--the foremost authority on clinical work with infants, young children, and their families--this landmark work carefully takes the reader through every subtle facet of the clinical assessment and intervention process. With more than 20 thorough case studies, in-depth discussions of clinical principles, and hundreds of practical guidelines and suggestions for assessment and intervention, this eminently useful volume: describes the critical steps in the observation and clinical assessment process, including the hands-on assessment of the infant and the evaluation of affective, motor, sensory, language, cognitive, interactive, and parental and family functioning; illustrates how to formulate the diagnosis of a wide range of infant and early childhood problems and use the formulation to plan effective intervention approaches; provides a clear model of, and in microscopic detail discusses, the psychotherapeutic and preventative intervention process. Specific treatment and preventative approaches for work with constitutional and maturational variations, infant-care-giver interactions, and parental and family patterns are described for problems ranging from mildinteractive and regulatory difficulties to the most severe pervasive developmental dysfunctions and family challenges; discusses how to set up an infant and early childhood clinical practice as well as an assessment and treatment center. This major, single-authored work is certain to become the definitive text for every professional working with infants, young children and their families, including psychiatrists, psychologists, pediatricians, social workers, educators, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and nurses.

The Practice of Clinical Assessments and Intervention with Emotional and Developmental Challenges

Infancy and Early Childhood

Stanley I Greenspan, M D

Beryl Lieff Benderly

Examines the link between child development and social evolution and the impact of social structures, technology, and child-rearing patterns on fundamental experiences

And The Endangered Origins Of Intelligence

The Growth Of The Mind

Grateful parents and professionals worldwide have welcomed this essential guide to the highly recommended Floortime approach for treating children with any of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Now available in paperback, Engaging Autism includes new, exciting information on neuroscience research into the effects of this approach, plus guidance for parents navigating the controversies surrounding the treatment of autism. Unlike approaches that focus on changing specific behavior, Greenspan's program promotes the building blocks of healthy emotional and behavioral development. He shows that, remarkably, children with ASD do not have a fixed, limited potential, and may often join their peers to lead full, psychologically healthy lives. The Floortime approach can also be applied at any age—including early infancy, when the first signs of risk for ASD may appear—so that preventing the full development of autism becomes a real possibility.

Using the Floortime Approach to Help Children Relate, Communicate, and Think

Engaging Autism

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Jacqueline Salmon

Identifies and offers advice for understanding children who are highly sensitive, self-absorbed, defiant, inattentive, and active/aggressive

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