Author: Jamie Schaefer-Wilson
Paperback: 208 pages Bargain Price
Company: Consumer Reports (2008-05-13) (2008-05-13)
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This friendly little book acknowledges kids' fears and makes them aware of things they need in order to feel safe in different situations. They learn, for instance, to look both ways when crossing a road, to wear special clothing for sports, to know their parents' names, phone number, and emergency numbers, and many other details. A First Look At… is an easy-to-understand series of books for younger children. Each title explores emotional issues and discusses the questions such difficulties invariably raise among kids of preschool through early school age. Written by a psychotherapist and child counselor, each title promotes positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers. The books are written in simple, direct language that makes sense to younger kids. Each title also features a guide for parents on how to use the book, a glossary, suggested additional reading, and a list of resources. There are attractive full-color illustrations on every page. (Ages 4-7)

Author: Pat Thomas
Paperback: 32 pages
Company: Barron's Educational Series (2003-06)
ISBN: 0764124609
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Developed through the collaborative efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics, thr American Public Health Association, and the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education. Updated and expanded new 3rd edition contains all-new standards describing best practices, developments and evaluations of the health and safety of our children in all types of early care and education settings - centers ad family child care homes.

Author: American Academy of Pediatrics
Paperback: 500 pages
Company: American Academy of Pediatrics (2011-06)
ISBN: 1581104839
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FRIEND MANUAL is the book we all wish we would have had as a child growing up. Filled with words of wisdom, advice and love. A must read for every child, easy enough for even the youngest child to appreciate and understand. FRIEND MANUAL is a great tool for parents, teachers, grandparents, and counselors.
This book has been approved, as all my books have by numerous Teachers, and Child Psychologist.

Author: Cindy Dennis
Kindle Edition: 38 pages Kindle eBook
Company: CindyLuBooks (2011-03-02) (2011-03-02)
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It's the most urgent and highly publicized issue facing America's family: how to teach our children to protect themselves in any situation. Based on the author's successful education workshop, which has been in operation since 1969 and has educated more than 50, 000 parents and children nationwide, The Safe Child Book gives parents effective and nonthreatening techniques for teaching children how to protect themselves without making them afraid. Written by one of the few nationally recognized authorities on the subject, The Safe Child Book provides a comprehensive educational program covering a wide range of topics that concern parents today, including sexual abuse, abduction, leaving children alone, surfing the Internet, school safety, and choosing a day-care center or baby-sitter.

Author: Sherryll Kraizer
Paperback: 176 pages ISBN13: 9780684814230, Condition: New, Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
Company: Touchstone (1996-08-28) (1996-08-28)
ISBN: 0684814234
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This book presents a revolutionary approach to child protection work.

It focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" The authors bring the solution orientation to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. The philosophy behind this approach is clearly articulated through ten practice principles that serve as guiding beacons for child protection workers as they traverse the rough waters of abuse and neglect investigation. Child protection workers are involved with vulnerable, at-risk children in potentially volatile situations. Here they will find a new child protection assessment and planning protocol that allows for comprehensive risk assessment incorporating both danger and safety and the perspectives of both professionals and service recipients (parents). The authors provide practical, hands-on strategies for building a partnership with parents, which may, in the long run, prevent abuse and family dissolution. They illustrate these strategies in cases showing the subtle process of integrating the seemingly opposite notions of coercion and cooperation. Respectful, optimistic, and highly practical, this book promises to revitalize and redirect child protection services.

Author: Steve Edwards, Andrew Turnell
Hardcover: 240 pages
Company: W. W. Norton & Company (1999-07-17)
ISBN: 0393703002
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In simple, reassuring language, the author explains that a child's body is his or her own; that it is all right for kids to decline a friendly hug or kiss, even from someone they love; and that you can still be friends even if you don't want a hug now.

Author: Cornelia Maude Spelman
Paperback: 24 pages
Company: Albert Whitman & Company (1997-01-01) (1997-01-01)
ISBN: 0807594733
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In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.

Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and shrinking share of federal expenditures on poor families with children, but on the staples of today's American welfare system: Medicaid, Food Stamps, Head Start, WIC, and public housing. These programs, Currie maintains, form an effective, if largely invisible and haphazard safety net, and yet they are the very programs most vulnerable to political attack and misunderstanding.

This book highlights both the importance and the fragility of this safety net, arguing that, while not perfect, it is essential to fighting poverty. Currie demonstrates how America's safety net is threatened by growing budget deficits and by an erroneous public belief that antipoverty programs for children do not work and are riddled with fraud.

By unearthing new empirical data, Currie makes the case that social programs for families with children are actually remarkably effective. She takes her argument one step further by offering specific reforms--detailed in each chapter--for improving these programs even more. The book concludes with an overview of an integrated safety net that would fight poverty more effectively and prevent children from slipping through holes in the net. (For example, Currie recommends the implementation of a benefit "debit card" that would provide benefits with less administrative burden on the recipient.)

A complement to books such as Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed, which document the personal struggles of the working poor, The Invisible Safety Net provides a big-picture look at the kind of programs and solutions that would help ease those struggles. Comprehensive and authoritative, it will prompt a major reexamination of the current thinking on improving the lives of needy Americans.

Author: Janet M. Currie
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Princeton University Press (2008-11-10)
ISBN: 0691138524
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Preschool children learn safe boundaries, how to distinguish between "good" and "bad" touches, and how to respond appropriately to unwanted touches. This book is a powerful book for enhancing self-esteem. Parenting Press's bestseller!

Author: Lory Britain
Paperback: 32 pages
Company: Parenting Pr (1984-05-01)
ISBN: 0943990033
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HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION FOR THE YOUNG CHILD, 8th Edition, covers the contemporary health, safety, and nutrition needs of infant through school-age children in one comprehensive volume, with extensive coverage of topics critical to the early identification of children's health conditions and the promotion of children's well-being. Concepts are backed by the latest research findings and linked to the key professional standards of the field. Collaboration with families, sensitivity to individual differences, and the critical importance of health, safety, and nutrition education continue to be stressed. Written in a clear, concise, and thought-provoking manner, this time-proven book is filled with easy-to-access checklists, guidelines, and lesson plans that no early childhood student or professional should be without!

Author: Lynn R Marotz
Paperback: 549 pages
Company: Wadsworth Publishing (2011-01-01)
ISBN: 1111298378
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Child abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society. What can be done to reduce the suffering? If there were simple solutions to abuse and neglect they would have been discovered long ago. There are no easy answers, but in this vivid history of child protection in America, John E.B. Myers introduces realistic policies that will reduce maltreatment and strengthen the system that protects our children.

Before it is possible to design viable improvements in today's system, it is necessary to understand how it evolved. The sweeping, beautifully written account of child protection in America traces its growth from colonial days to the present--from the rise and gradual disappearance of orphanages, the growth of foster care, the birth of organized child protection in 1874, and the rise of private societies to prevent cruelty, to the twentieth-century transition to government-operated child protection.

Myers goes on to describe the principal causes of child maltreatment, including intergenerational transmission of violence, poverty, substance abuse, cultural violence, excessive corporal punishment, sexual deviance, evolution, mental illness, and domestic violence. Once the causes of maltreatment are clear, it is possible to create solutions. Some of the proposals outlined have been in play for more than a century, while others are new. Policies to combat poverty, expand nurse home visiting programs, increase access to day care, strengthen a sense of community, outlaw corporal punishment, rethink our attitude toward alcohol, and lower the toxicity in popular culture are rooted in a deep understanding of the cycle of violence and challenge traditional ways of thinking.

Since it will never be possible to prevent all maltreatment, it is critical to strengthen the existing child protection system. Attainable reforms such as dealing with the lingering effects of racism in the child welfare, reworking funding mechanisms, refocusing leadership, creating a less adversarial system, strengthening foster care, and reinventing the juvenile court point to flaws in our system but demonstrate that progress is possible.

This provocative book will challenge all those concerned with children's welfare to move toward real solutions that will make life better for America's most vulnerable children.

Author: John E. B. Myers
Hardcover: 320 pages
Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2006-06-29)
ISBN: 0195169352
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This article uses two case studies to show the need for reform of child protection services. In one case, the child died. In the other, a boy becomes a public menace under the eyes of child “protection.” These cases are part of a pattern of neglect by systems that are supposed to protect children. If the American public knew how many children receive the “care” that these two cases illustrate, things would change. Politicians might take action if the public demands it.

A well-run child protection system will save US taxpayers billions a year, more than offsetting any money needed to pay for advanced training of social workers and to pay social workers well.

Author: Jane Gilgun
Kindle Edition: 8 pages Kindle eBook
Company: (2010-11-19) (2010-11-19)
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This book presents a revolutionary approach to child protection work.

It focuses on the question, "How can child protection professionals actually build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect?" The authors bring the solution orientation to child protection work, expanding the investigation of risk to encompass signs of safety that can be built upon to stabilize and strengthen the child's and family's situation. The philosophy behind this approach is clearly articulated through ten practice principles that serve as guiding beacons for child protection workers as they traverse the rough waters of abuse and neglect investigation. Child protection workers are involved with vulnerable, at-risk children in potentially volatile situations. Here they will find a new child protection assessment and planning protocol that allows for comprehensive risk assessment incorporating both danger and safety and the perspectives of both professionals and service recipients (parents). The authors provide practical, hands-on strategies for building a partnership with parents, which may, in the long run, prevent abuse and family dissolution. They illustrate these strategies in cases showing the subtle process of integrating the seemingly opposite notions of coercion and cooperation. Respectful, optimistic, and highly practical, this book promises to revitalize and redirect child protection services.

Author: Steve Edwards, Andrew Turnell
Hardcover: 240 pages
Company: W. W. Norton & Company (1999-07-17)
ISBN: 0393703002
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A History of Child Protection in America is the first comprehensive history of American efforts to protect children from abuse and neglect. The book begins in colonial times and chronicles child protection into the twenty-first century. Among the important nineteenth century events detailed in these pages are the rise of orphanages for "dependent" children, the "orphan trains" operated by the New York Children's Aid Society, the birth of the juvenile court, the reforms of the Children's Progressive Era, and the dramatic rescue of Mary Ellen Wilson, which led to the creation of the world's first organization devoted entirely to child protection, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Twentieth century milestones include the gradual transition from private child protection societies to government operated child protection, the obscurity of child abuse from the 1920's to the 1960's, the "discovery" of child abuse in 1962, and the creation of the child protection system we know today.

Author: John E. B. Myers
Paperback: 460 pages
Company: Xlibris, Corp. (2004-05-18)
ISBN: 1413423019
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This manual, produced by NCCAN as part of the User Manual Series, provides an overview of the treatment of sexually abused, physically abused, and neglected children. Child development is briefly reviewed and the study of developmental psychopathology is described. All aspects of child development are considered, including intrapersonal development, interpersonal development, physical development, sexual development, and behavioral conduct development. Consequences of abuse and neglect, assessment of maltreatment, the therapeutic process and the role of the therapist, treatment issues and specialized interventions, and case management are addressed.

Author: Cynthia Winn, Anthony J. Urquiza, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Kindle Edition: 159 pages Kindle eBook
Company: (2011-06-15) (2011-06-15)
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A practical tool for the assessment of children and their families, this guide enables professionals to make informed decisions about protection issues. Firmly rooted in current practice, it draws on the experience and expertise of Jeff Fowler who is a practicing consultant with 30 years' experience as a qualified social worker. His work has already formed the basis of guidance reports for child protection agencies and court proceedings. The book provides a systematic method of collecting and interpreting information vital to a best practice assessment. It also includes specific chapters that focus on assessing attachment issues, childhood experiences, alcohol and drug abuse, and parenting skills and abilities. It provides a case study leading to an assessment report that can be used for case conferences, as a core assessment in care proceedings or for statements in public and private law matters. This is an important book for social workers, health professionals, teachers, legal and criminal justice professionals and the police and any professional working in the field of child protection.

Author: Jeff Fowler
Paperback: 272 pages
Company: Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2002-01)
ISBN: 1843100509
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Author: Harry Ferguson
Paperback: 208 pages
Company: Palgrave Macmillan (2011-05-15) (2011-05-10)
ISBN: 0230242839
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This new edition is essential reading for anyone concerned with improving child protection practice. Building on the strengths of the First Edition, it provides a deeper understanding of how practice judgments and decisions can be improved in child protection work.

Author: Eileen Munro
Paperback: 192 pages
Company: Sage Publications Ltd (2008-06-05)
ISBN: 1412946956
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How do parents help their children find their own spiritual freedom, allowing them to grow in independence and strength in Christ? Pete and Sue Vander Hook, a typical Christian pastor and his family, learned the hard way how the enemy can infiltrate a seemingly secure Christian home and wreak havoc on a family. It details their dramatic journey and shows how parents can provide a protective covering for their home. Neil Anderson then provides follow-up steps on how to take authority of your home and secure your family's spiritual well-being. Spiritual Protection for Your Children also provides "The Steps to Freedom" adapted for use with 0-4 year olds (i.e. how to take authority on behalf of your preschool age child), 5-8 year olds; and 9-12 years olds.

Author: Neil T. Anderson, Sue Vander Hook, Peter Vanderhook
Paperback: 260 pages
Company: Regal Books (1999-04)
ISBN: 0830718869
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This article provides guidelines for protecting children from sexual abuse and what to do if children have been sexually abused.

Author: Ph.D., LICSW Jane F. Gilgun
Kindle Edition: 6 pages Kindle eBook
Company: (2010-02-17) (2010-02-17)
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This concise summary of "need-to-know" information about Choosing Daycare answers these important questions. What Kinds Of Daycare Are Available? What Are Sitters? What Are Nannies? What Are Daycare Homes? What Are Daycare Centers? What Factors Should I Consider When Choosing A Daycare Provider? What Qualities Should I Look For In A Daycare Provider? Do Infants And Toddlers Have Special Daycare Needs? What Is A Good Caregiver To Child Ratio? How Do I Find Quality Daycare? Where Can I learn More About Daycare?

Author: Waln K. Brown
Kindle Edition: 3 pages Kindle eBook
Company: William Gladden Press (2011-03-21) (2011-03-21)
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The Safe Baby has been the go-to guide for thousands of parents and grandparents. Chock full of essential information from an internationally recognized child safety and health expert, this comprehensive, readable, and empowering book tells you how to make your home and environment safe and healthy for your entire family. Her warm, breezy style makes it all fun! The Safe Baby won the prestigious Gold award from National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) one of the country's most authoritative consumer-awards recognizing the best in parenting resources. This expanded, revised edition includes:

* Latest up-to-date-information on baby safety
* How to select safer toys, nursery equipment, and baby care supplies
* How to create a healthy and green living lifestyle
* How to make your own baby food
* How to get back to the basics of childrearing
* Money saving tips

Author: Debra Smiley Holtzman
Paperback: 271 pages
Company: Sentient Publications (2009-07-16)
ISBN: 159181085X
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Every year over 2.7 million children under the age of 15 are involved in accidents in and around their home that require emergency room care. Many more are treated by parents, guardians and family doctors. In fact, accidents are the most common cause of death for children over the age of one.

Unfortunately, most all of these accidents could have been prevented, especially around the house. What hidden dangers are in your home today? What do you need to be aware of in protecting your children from serious injury in your house?

This book is designed to help you avoid the potential dangers and risks in the home that can be hazardous to your baby, toddler or child. You'll know what to look for, what areas to address right now and how to make sure you are providing the safest home possible for your children. So let's get started!


Author: Donna Thomas
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: (2012-01-14) (2012-01-14)
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Ear infections need to be treated with antibiotics. Newborns and infants should be bathed daily. New parents are deluged with advice on how to care for their babies. This book explores common baby health myths--in areas such as feeding, sleeping, toilet training, and illness--to help them separate baby facts from baby fiction.

Author: Andrew Adesman
Paperback: 288 pages
Company: Wiley (2009-01-27)
ISBN: 0470179392
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Protecting their children is the greatest concern for most parents and grandparents. The Safe Baby provides them comprehensive help in making their homes safer for the entire family.

Author: Debra Smiley Holtzman
Paperback: 272 pages
Company: Sentient Publications (2004-11-01)
ISBN: 1591810299
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Author: David Sopp, Kelly Sopp
Board book: 16 pages
Company: Running Press (2005-11-08)
ISBN: 0762424915
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Written by renowned child safety expert Alison Rhodes, HONEY I LOST THE BABY IN THE PRODUCE AISLE! is a fun and lighthearted resource that new and expecting parents can turn to for modern safety and wellness solutions. From pregnancy to taking your baby home to your first night out without baby (and everything in between), this book provides advice, guidance, and reassurance on how to baby-proof your house and your life.

Author: Alison Rhodes
Paperback: 223 pages
Company: Course Technology PTR (2011-04-20)
ISBN: 1435459709
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"Better Baby Sleep" was written by a Parent Education professional to help parents understand infant sleep. It provides fully researched information and advice on how to encourage their babies, breast-fed or not, to sleep through the night. It highlights the importance of infant sleep safety and much more. It’s short and sweet and hopefully will help families get a good night’s rest.

Author: Jane Stockly
Kindle Edition: Kindle eBook
Company: (2010-09-08) (2010-09-08)
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