From Birth to Sixteen：Children's Health, Social, Emotional and Linguistic Development

"From Birth to Sixteen Years outlines childrens physical, social, emotional and cognitive development from infancy through to adolescence. Providing information about normal development, the book also highlights deviations so that a range of health, social care and education professionals can quickly and easily identify where children are experiencing problems and whether or not these are issues that can be resolved without intervention or should be referred onwards.Quick and easy to access, this text isclear and concise, with illustrations, brief research summaries and case studies making links to professional practice throughout. Designed to fit with the requirements of the Common Assessment Framework, it presents developmental norms for the years from birth to sixteen under each of the following themes: Health and physical development, Emotional well-being and resilience, Relationships in the family, Relationships in day care, at school and with the peer group, Learning in a social context, Language and communication, Childrens rights and responsibilities, Children and the media. The text appreciates the diversity of ways in which children develop in different social contexts, taking into account gender, ethnicity, social background and disability, and values childrens resilience in conditions of adversity. It is ideal for students studying child development on a range of courses including nursing, play work, youth work, play therapy, early years education, teaching, social work and occupational therapy as well as practitioners in these areas"--Provided by publisher.

Helen Cowie is Professor Emeritus and Director of the UK Observatory for the Promotion of Non-Violence (www.ukobservatory.com) at the University of Surrey in the Faculty of Health and Medicine. A psychologist by background, she teaches a range of education, psychology, and health and social care students. For over 20 years she has specialized in strategies to counteract school bullying, including peer support as an effective intervention that empowers children and young people to take action themselves to help other young people who are experiencing social and emotional difficulties. Her widely-used training manual Peer Support in Action, co-authored with Patti Wallace, influenced practice in the UK and other European countries. In 2009 it was translated into Japanese following a long-standing collaboration with the Japanese Peer Support Association.

In Managing School Violence, she and co-author Dawn Jennifer designed training for a whole-school approach to reduce and prevent bullying, while New Perspectives on Bullying emphasized the importance of fostering positive relationships in the school community as a whole and provided a wealth of evidence-based good practice for professionals. Her co-authored book Understanding Children's Development remains one of the most popular undergraduate psychology textbooks in the field and a fifth edition was published in 2011.