Paving Pathways: Child and Adolescent Development (2002)
This is a student-centered, applied text, providing a chronologically organized introduction to the main age stages, research, and theories of child/adolescent development. Ideal for courses which train future childcare workers, teachers, social workers and counselors, applied health professionals, and especially future parents. The pedagogical plan is simplified to reduce distracting “clutter,” containing photos and illustrations limited to only those that directly support key concepts.
Beginnings and Beyond (1995)
In this practical text, Laurel Hughes offers self-testing and practical applications and suggestions, so that students learn to deal with problems they face in their own lives. With the beginning psychology student in mind, she explains basic concepts of psychology with detailed applications and analyses. Hughes offers a humanistic approach to the book by including her own personal stories at the end of each chapter to provide a model of self-analysis and a review of chapter concepts.
Expanding Your Experience (1995)
Designed to accompany Beginnings and Beyond, this student workbook guides students in the important task of keeping a journal. Hughes not only provides numerous exercises, questionnaires, and activities for both classroom and individual work, but she also organizes them around the concept of the ongoing nature of personal adjustment. All activities and exercises are provided on tear-out sheets that are three-holed punched so that students can remove them and create a personal activity log. A wide variety of exercises are included for each chapter.
How to Raise a Healthy Achiever (1991)
This book offers parents advice on helping their children develop a healthy attitude towards achievement, while avoiding obsessive work focus, excessive stress, and emotional shallowness.
How to Raise Good Children (1988)
This is a breakthrough guidebook that shows parents how to encourage moral growth in children. Laurel Hughes shows how to use “inner labeling” and other practical techniques that nurture your child’s natural sense of love, concern, and empathy for others. How to Raise Good Children is for every parent looking for an effective way to instill strong, internalized moral values in children.
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