RAMA PUBLISHING HOUSE CATALOGUE
2012
About Publishing House
Our publishing house puts out books by prominent experts for present day parents and professionals on all aspects of the development of a child’s personality. It publishes popular science literature in the field of child and adolescent psychology, prenatal development, pediatrics, etc. Among the authors of the publishing house are academicians of Russian Academy of Education, doctors and candidates of psychological, medical and educational sciences, practitioners. In the project participate both Russian and foreign professionals. This catalogue contains the full repertoire of the publishing house. The books intended for translation ane marked with asterisk *.
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Series: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S PERSONALITY
The uniqueness of the series lies in the systematic and popular presentation of current scientific knowledge on child psychology for parents. The six books of the series cover the period of child development from birth to the age of sixteen. Each volume describes the most important acquirements within this age range, the development of the psychics of children as they grow up, contains advice on what they need to learn and how to help them to learn. The authors of the series are prominent Russian psychologists, psycho physiologists, educators and pediatricians, including doctors and candidates of sciences, academicians of Russian Academy of Education, professors of the leading Russian universities and practitioners as well. In 2011 the social significance of the project was awarded a prestigious national award “The Golden Psyche”.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S PERSONALITY FROM BIRTH TO ONE YEAR OF AGE
The book will help moms and dads to create the best conditions for growth and development of their baby before its birth and during its first year of life. Parents will learn about the innate abilities of the newborn, mental and physical development of their child in the age under one year, the development of its speech, motor skills and emotions in order to arrange competent childcare, play and communicate with the child so that it grows up active, healthy and smart. The book provides advice on breastfeeding and artificial feeding, on the schedule of complementary feeding. In the appendix are listed the parameters of motor, social, speech development and development of the organs of sense, which help to determine how well the baby develops during the first year of life. Publication is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: March 2010
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S PERSONALITY IN THE AGE FROM ONE TO THREE The book explains how to help your child to get to know the objective world, to develop perception, memory, thought and speech, to master hygiene skills, to get accustomed to culture. Parents will be able to organize a daily routine of their child according to his or her scope and a proper diet with respect to the needs of the growing organism, to compare the mental and physical development of the child with normal values. Readers will learn how to condition the baby to the cold, how to play and communicate with it, how to help it cope with fears. The book also contains advice on how to raise restless, hyperactive and aggressive children as well as how to deal with the stubbornness and willfulness of the baby during its first year and third year crisis periods. Publication is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: March 2010
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S PERSONALITY IN THE AGE FROM THREE TO FIVE The book explains how to help a child aged three to five years to successfully master the codes of conduct in society, to learn to get along with peers and solve simple conflicts without assistance. Readers will learn how to develop thinking, attention, memory, motor skills and speech of younger preschoolers; how the sexual identity is manifested; why the game takes on greater importance for the normal development of the child. Special emphasis is made on the adaptation of the child to kindergarten, child’s fears and aggressiveness, the role of imagination and fantasy in its development. Information about the fine art will reveal the secrets of children’s drawings. The information on child conditioning to the cold, diet and the most common diseases will help parents to take care of the child’s health. The information on parenting styles and the birth of second child in a family will allow parent to be more confident in their relations with their children. Publication is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: August 2010
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S PERSONALITY IN THE AGE FROM FIVE TO SEVEN The book contains information on how to prepare your child for school-level knowledge and skills, how to develop thinking, speech, communication skills and motor skills. Readers will learn how to help the child to survive the crisis of the age of seven and to find motivation to learn, the key to successful adaptation to school. Sections on health will help to assess whether the child is physically prepared for the workload at school. The final part of the book will help parents to organize their work with the child on their own with a view to develop its thinking process, voluntary attention, mathematical abilities, to prepare it for writing and to assess whether and to what extent the child is prepared to go to school. Special sections of the book tell about the behavior of the children with special needs: leaders and outsiders, autistic children, choleric or hyperactive children, etc. Publication is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: October 2010
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD’S PERSONALITY IN THE AGE FROM SEVEN TO ELEVEN The book tells about the changes that occur in a child’s life when it becomes a pupil. Readers will learn how to help children adapt to school, how to feel confident in the new environment, how to establish relations with teachers and find friends among peers. The book discusses the factors of success in studies, what it is necessary to know about mastering the important skills of reading and writing, how to cope with difficulties arising at school and when doing homework. In the age from nine to eleven a child enters adolescence. Readers will learn about the most important changes in the body and psychics of the child and be able to find the best solutions of problem situations with their children. Publication is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: October 2010
Series: TEXTBOOKS FOR PARENTS
The books of this series deal with various aspects of child development. Preparation for school, problems of relations between adults and children, correction of problems of development – all these and many other topics will help to quickly solve the problems faced by parents in the upbringing of a growing human being.
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HAPPY BABY OF A WORKING MOM Uliana Vorobiova
Every young mother is very attached to her baby. At the same time the older the child, the greater the woman’s desire to resume her career. The book tells how to solve the dilemma of “child or career?” without traumatic experiences for mothers and harm to the developing baby. Recommendations of the author, practicing psychologist Uliana Vorobiova based on experience in advising young mothers will help women to get rid of the feeling of guilt, to reallocate their time and duties associated with the child, to improve the quality of communication with the child, in particular with the help of games and entertaining conversations. The book is intended for young mothers and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: March 2011
COMMON PARENT ERRORS Tatiana Leus
The book contains advice on how to get rid of wrong educational principles, such as “You should always eat up your food”, “You should learn”, “When he gets older he will know everything on his own”, “Mama does everything better”, “We live together for the sake of the child”, “Adults are always right”, etc. These attitudes were adopted by them from their own parents, and now they exert a negative impact on mental and physical health of the child, on his or her relations with adults and children. Using typical stories from lives of children and parents as examples, the psychologist Tatiana Leus explains where this or that principle has its origin, in what way it affects the child at present and what awaits the child in the future, if the parents do not change.
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Publication date: September 2010
MUFF KIDS AND DISASTER KIDS * Ekaterina Murashova
This book by the pediatrician Ekaterina Murashova treats the widely discussed topic of hyperactivity and hypoactivity of children. Parents will learn about the medical and psychological aspects of the problem. Following the advice of the author they will be able to find the proper approach to their child, to properly organize its development and its education before school and during its school years. The book also contains several stories under the title “About Misha and Sasha�, which narrate of children temperament. The heroes of the stories, twins Sasha and Misha, embody different types of temperament and will help a child to learn more about itself, teach it to cope with stress, to develop empathy and respect for other people, to feel more confident. The book is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: September 2009
PARENT AND TEACHER: HOW TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AND HELP A CHILD * Mariana Bezrukikh The school life of a child depends not only on its behavior and performance, but also on the relations that develop between parents and teachers. The author, academician of Russian Academy of Education, tells how to overcome fears and awkwardness in the intercourse between parents and teachers, as well as how and what to say in order to be heard and to maintain one’s point of view, how to avoid a conflict situation and what to do in case of conflict – in short, how to make intercourse effective and thus actually help a child. The book is intended for parents and educators. Publication date: September 2010
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BIG WORRIES OF A LITTLE SCHOOLCHILD Liudmila Evdokimova
The author Liudmila Evdokimova, Candidate of Sciences (Pedagogy), teacher of the highest skill certification level, discusses the early school years in general and the importance of marks in particular, and cites the requirements for knowledge evalution. She explains how to create a situation of success for a child and in what way left-handed, shy, hyperactive, gifted or undistinguished children can cope with their difficulties. Readers will learn why it is more difficult for certain children to adapt to school, what to do if a child tells lies about his or her grades and problems at school, how to help weak pupils, what has to be done in situations when a child is aggressive, when it is hurt by other kids, when it does not have friends in the class or when its relations with teachers are not getting on well. The author’s hints will help parents to pay attention to the health of a young schoolchild and cope with family battles over homework. The book is intended for parents, primary school teachers, children psychologists, educators.
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Publication date: December 2011
I WRITE BEAUTIFULLY AND CORRECTLY Mariana Bezrukikh
The most important skill, on which depends the success of the child in school and later in life, is the ability to write. The author of the book, famous Russian psycho-physiologist Mariana Bezrukikh believes that though it is very difficult for a child to master the skill of writing the parents are always here to help their baby. The major prerequisites are patience, faith in success and systematic exercises. The book consists of 10 lessons which will help adults teach children to write neatly and correctly. It contains advice on how to practically consolidate the studied material with the help of four copybooks with samples of writing provided by the author. The book is intended for parents and all adults who want to help children learn to write easily, correctly and with pleasure.
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Publication date: August 2009
10 SIMPLE STEPS TO BEAUTIFUL AND CORRECT WRITING Mariana Bezrukikh
This manual for parents is a shortened version of the book “I Write Beautifully and Correctly� and includes the basic principles of teaching preschoolers to write. The book contains precise instructions and clear rules of developing writing skills. The book has information on instruction in writing for left-handed, hyperactive, lagging and weakened children. Recommendations of the author will help to cope with the difficulties arising in the process of learning to write at school, as well as to consolidate writing skills in children who require additional lessons. The book is intended for parents of preschool children and primary schoolchildren, as well as for all interested professionals.
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Publication date: June 2010
Series: PROMINENT CHILDREN PSYCHOLOGISTS
The series “Prominent Children Psychologists” affords Russian readers an opportunity to become acquainted with the works of world famous specialists in children’s psychology. The thoroughness of the authors’ approaches combined with the intelligibility of information will allow readers to better understand the origins of children’s problems and find the most effective approaches to solving them.
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THE CAUSE OF INFANTS * Françoise Dolto
The books by the psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto have won recognition from both professionals and parents in different countries. For Françoise Dolto everything is important: children’s rights, education reform, autism, influence of television and computer on child’s behavior, child sexuality, child complexes, early development, etc. The views of the author allow us to understand how fragile and vulnerable the child’s psyche is; stimulate the readers’ desire to change their attitude towards the child, to protect him from emotional and physical traumas and to maintain confidence in their relations with the child. The book is intended for anyone who seeks to expand the boundaries of his knowledge in respect to childhood and learn to understand and love children.
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Publication date: August 2009
THE CAUSE OF ADOLESCENTS * Françoise Dolto
In this book the French psychoanalyst F. Dolto tells of the role the teenage years play in the life of a person and expands on such “uncomfortable” issues as sexuality and homosexuality, loneliness and school difficulties, drug abuse, suicide, relationship of parents and adolescents, runaways, etc. Readers will learn about the social preconditions of teenage problems and be able to understand the motives of actions and behavior of adolescents. The book is intended for parents, teachers, psychologists, family psychotherapeutists, social workers et al. Publication date: August 2009
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THE FAMILY THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD * Gintaras Homentauskas
Gintaras Homentauskas, Doctor of Psychology, President of the Human Study Center in Vilnius, invites adults to have a look at what is happening in the family through the eyes of a child. The author shows the reader what the child feels when he or she is the eldest, youngest or only child in a family; how it feels to be loved, accepted or rejected; what children feel when they fall hostages to the complicated family relations. Readers will learn how to create an atmosphere of warmth and mutual understanding within the family, how to understand feelings and behavior of a child and maintain confident relations with it. The book is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: September 2009
TROUBLED FAMILIES — PROBLEM CHILDREN: Working with parents — A Collaborative Process * Carolyn Webster-Stratton, Martin Herbert The foreign experts in the field of clinical psychology C. Webster-Stratton (practicing pediatrician, Professor at the Washington University) and M. Herbert (Professor at the University of Exeter, UK) have developed a strategy of work with families having problem children. Their method, which is based on the cooperation between parents and professionals, has already established itself in America and Europe and is used successfully in Russia. The authors demonstrate the process of therapy from the inside, and in particular give a detailed description of what it feels to be a parent of the problem child and what such a parent feels when undergoing the therapy. The book is intended for all professionals who work with problem children and will be interesting and useful for parents of problem children.
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Publication date: August 2010
MANIFESTO OF A HAPPY CHILDHOOD (original title: Children: The Challenge) * Rudolf Dreikurs, Vicki Soltz The classic of American psychology Rudolf Dreikurs has finely observed that neither a selfsacrificing love for a child nor the traditional methods of education produce the desired result. Dreikurs identifies four goals of undesirable behavior of a child: the need for parents’ attention, the struggle for power within the family, revenge, and avoidance of responsibilities, and shows how the children are getting these goals through the example of the most common situations in family practice. The effectiveness of the author’s approach is remarkably high since his methods are simple and work in any family, whether intact or broken, with one or more children, regardless of their age. The book is intended for parents of problem children and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: June 2011
OUTSIDE THE SERIES
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YOUR DEAR LITTLE ONE FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH Svetlana Klaas
Unlike the majority of publications for parents, this book has as its main character neither a mom nor a dad, but a tiny creature, the Baby, whose life has just begun. Readers will learn how the Baby develops every week of its life before birth; how mom and dad should communicate with their baby; what role in the development of the tiny creature the father plays; in what way the mother’s preconceptions influence the development of the Baby now and in the future; what the child feels, when its mother is working or resting; what faculties and in what way can be developed in the child before birth; how to continue its development after birth. Practical recommendations based on current scientific data will allow moms and dads to feel as loving and caring parents long before the birth of the Baby and to make its birth a great festive event.
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Publication date: March 2011
WOMAN’S HEALTH DURING PREGNANCY Tatiana Oboskalova, with the participation of neonatologist Elena Nikolina The author, leading Russian expert in the field of obstetrics Tatiana Oboskalova contributed to the birth of hundreds of kids. In the process of consultations she answered many questions of expectant mothers who were worried about their health and the health of their future child. The author has summarized her practical experience in a book that covers the most commonly asked questions in respect to planning pregnancy, examinations, procedures, proper health care during all the three trimesters, delivery, maternity hospital and the first month of life with a baby. Concise and precise information will allow each expectant mother to be sure of herself and not be afraid of what doctors say. The book is intended for expectant mothers and will also be of interest to specialists of perinatal centers et al.
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Publication date: January 2012
I CAN SAY EVERYTHING WITHOUT WORDS! * Therezie Vasilovcik-Shustova
Do you know that the child is able to talk to parents as early as in the age of nine months? Czech author Therezie Vasilovcik-Sustova suggests using the language of natural signs and gestures in communication with infants and babies long before they are able to express themselves with words. The unique methods ensure high quality communication with even very small children, help to develop their motor skills, thinking, attention, intelligence and to expand their active vocabulary. And the most important of all, to get a great pleasure from the fact that the child not only understands everything, but also can speak about what it hears! The book is intended for parents of little babies, as well as for grandparents, nurses, educators and psychologists.
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Publication date: June 2011
DO YOU REALLY LOVE YOUR CHILD? Uliana Vorobiova
Many years of family consulting convinced the practicing psychologist Uliana Vorobieva that the root of most problems associated with the child lies in the belief of the child that parents do not love it. With the help of the stories from the author’s experience in consulting and the unique theory of parental love, moms and dads will be able to gain an understanding of their feelings for the child, to make out what kind of love the child is in need of, in what units of measurement this love should be expressed, how to fill up the Cup of Love of the child, to save its future from negative scripts and thus make it truly happy. The book is intended for parents and all interested professionals. Publication date: January 2012
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THE MAIN FAMILY BOOK OF CHILD’S HEALTH * Josef Sveicar et al
“The Main Family Book of Child’s Health” gives readers the opportunity to use the latest achievements of modern science in the upbringing of physically, mentally and socially healthy child. The book treats of all urgent issues of a child’s health, ranging from the birth of the family of the future child’s parents to the beginning of its adult life, including the methods of preventing common childhood diseases and the important legal issues related to childhood. The authors of the book are authoritative European experts in the field of medicine (pediatrics, dentistry, obstetrics and gynecology), psychology, sociology and philosophy. This book is intended for parents and all interested professionals.
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Publication date: January 2012
A PARENT’S HEALING TOUCH (original title: Acupoint and Trigger Point Therapy for Babies and Children) * Donna Finando The power of healing touches has served for Donna Finando, an American expert in the field of massage, as a basis for creating an allround system of child support. Donna Finando shares her experience in easing the child’s condition in case of the most common childhood diseases such as colds and flu, sore throat, ear infection, cough, sinusitis, asthma, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, cramps, irritability and sleep disturbances, vomiting, constipation, urinary tract infection and injuries. The author tells not only about helping a child by means of massage, but also about the diseases themselves, about alimentation and other forms of assistance, with special emphasis on those cases when medical assistance is necessary. The author’s main idea is that the healing touch is an excellent way to make the child feel your love and concern. This book is intended for all families that have children.
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Publication date: June 2011
THE TRAP FOR A CHILD PRODIGY * Natalia Vishnia
Natalia Vishnia is a successful businesswoman and mother of three gifted children. Her unconventional view of the world and non-classical understanding of education helped her children to reveal their talents and demonstrate what a child can achieve when it is given creative freedom without punishment and pressure on the part of adults. “The Trap for a Child Prodigy� is not a book about boys and girls in general or about psychological methods to be used to make genii out of children, but an honest, sincere story of the passionate talents: Matvei, Mark and Alina. Through the example of her family the author tells how she manages to cultivate gifts in her children, to help young talents to study and learn the wisdom of life and to grow up happy and harmonious people. The book is intended for all adults who want to develop talents in their child.
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Publication date: November 2010
TEACHING WRITING * Mariana Bezrukikh
The author of the book, academician Mariana Bezrukikh has become a winner of the RF President Prize for the development of methods of instruction in writing. “Instruction in Writing� is a scientific work treating of the history of writing, the history of instruction in writing in Russia, the psychophysiology of writing and methods of instruction in writing. The listed methods of diagnosing difficulties when developing writing skills and corrective exercises and tasks will help assess the functional development of the skill and identify as early as possible the difficulties in learning to write. The book is intended for educators, psychologists, scholars. Publication date: February 2009
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