Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect
subject: Child development - Psycology Child Psycology Developmental Psycology
description: Child abuse and neglect is a scourge in our global community. In the United States alone, the nation loses an average of five children a day to child abuse and neglect. The impact of child abuse and neglect is significant. It can affect esteem, health and development, learning outcomes, and more importantly, closeness between a child and their parent. This book highlights the issues associated with child abuse and neglect and captures the nuances of its effect on child development and psychosocial well-being. The authors are from the international community and speak to the dynamics of child abuse and neglect across nations.
creator: Diann Cameron Kelly
source: https://intech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/a043Y00000yJC7FQAW/0014585_Authors_Book%20%282024-06-13%2009%3A47%3A59%29.pdf
publisher: IntechOpen
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Fundamentals of Psychological Disorders - 3rd edition
subject: Psychological Disorders
description: Fundamentals of Psychological Disorders (formerly Abnormal Psychology) is an Open Education Resource written by Alexis Bridley, Ph.D. and Lee W. Daffin Jr., Ph.D. through Washington State University. The book tackles the difficult topic of mental disorders in 15 modules and is updated through the DSM-5-TR. This journey starts by discussing what abnormal behavior is by attempting to understand what normal behavior is.
creator: Alexis Bridley, Lee W. Daffin Jr
source: https://opentext.wsu.edu/abnormal-psych/
publisher: Washington State University
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Books

Talking about non-recent child sexual abuse
subject: Psychology Sexual abuse
description: This book addresses the issue of non-recent child sex abuse and its long-term impact on adult survivors from a broadly psychodynamic perspective. Non-recent CSA is not a subject that can or should be confined to the clinical arena. It has legal, welfare and profound social implications, with its impact broadening out from the survivor to the family to the community and into wider society.
creator: Daniel Taggart, Joanne Stubley
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/113162/9781040512401.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2026
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Contemporary Psychometrics
subject: Psychotherapy
description: In an era marked by rapid social, cultural, and technological change, the field of psychometrics is evolving to meet new challenges and possibilities. Contemporary Psychometrics - New Developments and Applications offers a timely and rigorous exploration of emerging perspectives, methods, and applications in psychological assessment. This volume brings together international scholars whose contributions reflect the diversity and complexity of modern psychometric inquiry. From innovative theoretical frameworks to culturally sensitive approaches, the chapters address key questions facing researchers and practitioners today.
creator: María Cristina Richaud, Belen Mesurado, Viviana Noemí Lemos
source: https://intech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/a04Tc000009jOE5IAM/0016473_Authors_Book%20%282025-09-12%2009%3A12%3A23%29.pdf
publisher: IntechOpen
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Parenting Styles and Practices
subject: Psychotherapy Parenting
description: Parenting is a dynamic and multifaceted process shaped by history, psychology, and societal expectations. This book provides researchers with a comprehensive exploration of parenting styles, their evolution, and their impact on child development. It investigates the challenges parents face, the role of education in fostering communication skills, and the self-help mechanisms of foster parents. Additionally, it examines how race and systemic factors influence school choice for black families.
creator: María Cristina Richaud, Jael Vargas-Rubilar, Viviana Noemí Lemos
source: https://intech-files.s3.amazonaws.com/a043Y000011YN29QAG/0015810_Authors_Book%20%282025-05-22%2007%3A53%3A47%29.pdf
publisher: IntechOpen
date: 2025
contributor: Mstabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
subject: Medicine and Nursing Mental health services
description: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic came in as an unexpected storm; it was an occasion to evidence the strengths of medicine (vaccines being the clearest example), as well as its weaknesses. Children and adolescent were a particularly sensitive population during this time, due to both the limitations of daily life (for their loved ones and themselves) and problems in accessing health services, not to mention those with pre-existing psychiatric conditions or disability.
creator: Matteo Alessio Chiappedi
source: https://mdpi-res.com/bookfiles/book/10861/Child_and_Adolescent_Psychiatry.pdf
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Child-Centred Music Therapy
subject: Psychology Educational psychology Music
description: This open access book draws on recent developments in children’s rights, particularly concerning the child’s right to participation, provision and protection. Since 1989, the UNCRC has become a catalogue of rights that expresses legal norms used by all countries in the world. The UNCRC can be considered a toolkit that expresses a normative order, that is, a human rights standard for how to legitimately protect children, and to facilitate processes of participation.
creator: Viggo Krüger, Kathleen M. Murphy
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/104184/9783031857249.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks