Child Development: A Practitioner's Guide

Social Work Practice with Children and Families

by Douglas Davies, Michael F. Troy

Now in a revised and updated fourth edition, this trusted text and professional resource provides a developmental framework for clinical practice. The authors examine how children's trajectories are shaped by transactions among family relationships, brain development, and the social environment. Risk and resilience factors in each of these domains are highlighted. Covering infancy, toddlerhood, the preschool years, and middle childhood, the text explores how children of different ages typically behave, think, and relate to others. Developmentally informed approaches to assessment and intervention are illustrated by vivid case examples. Observation exercises and quick-reference summaries of each developmental stage facilitate learning.   New to This Edition *Incorporates a decade's worth of advances in knowledge about attachment, neurodevelopment, developmental psychopathology, intervention science, and more. *Toddler, preschool, and school-age development are each covered in two succinct chapters rather than one, making the book more student friendly. *Updated throughout by new coauthor Michael F. Troy, while retaining Douglas Davies's conceptual lens and engaging style.  

Genres: Psychology, Social Work, Nonfiction, Grad School, Childrens, Parenting, Reference

440 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 12, 1999

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thorough! Dense but readable.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

All You Need to Know

I read this for a class in ocial work and wished I'd read it sooner. Great explanations and information, so helpful for a new parent or a clinician working with children or teens.

[Coles]

read it for school and actually really enjoyed it. it taught me a lot without making me feel stupid first. accessible and organized well

[Erika Metten · Rating 4 out of 5]

Required reading for my masters program and looked forward to reading throughout my course. Great case examples and easy to digest information about child development.

[Nina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives a set of blueprints of normal child development.It discusses at a great length psychological and emotional mechanisms that any child uses to progress on his/her road to adulthood.The theory benefits from case studies as they clarify main points.I read this book with great interest as I guess every (future) parent should, just to have a rough idea how your child develops and what you can do to facilitate this development.

[Melita · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this book during a long search at the library.
Not helping me much on the essay I was making at that time,
but later I just couldn't help but to read it till the end!
Great one.

[Desi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great text book to help guide understanding of attachment theory as it relates to children as they grow. Good job explaining concepts without being dry. The case studies are fantastic!

[Alyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE this book. love love love it!
easy to read, super informative

[Thuy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book and an outstanding speaker. He's by far my favorite professor during my grad school days.

[Kony · Rating 4 out of 5]

Required for therapy school. Informative and well written.

[Rita · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good textbook

[Traci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good details on the impact of attachment.