Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care
Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the... (more)
Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction: Fifth Edition
The definitive guide to the skills and techniques used when working with children experiencing emotional problems, this book covers all you need to know about: * The goals for counselling children... (more)
Helping Babies and Children Aged 0-6 to Heal After Family Violence: A Practical Guide to Infant- and Child-Led Work
After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this? Dr Wendy Bunston's guide is here to help you to meet the emotional needs of children... (more)
Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work: Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment... (more)
ADHD and Hyperkinetic Disorder: Second Revised Edition
This pocketbook serves as a concise and practical guide to the management of ADHD for child and adolescent psychiatrists and child psychologists, paediatricians, trainees, psychiatric specialist... (more)
We Need to Talk: A Straight-Talking Guide to Raising Resilient Teens
How do you talk to your teen when their only focus is the screen in front of them? How do you help them to build a core of self-esteem in a world obsessed with appearances? In this empathetic, down... (more)
Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children: The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual
From leading authorities, this volume presents a unique evidence-based group intervention for the 10-15% of children who are challenged by peer difficulties in elementary school. The book features... (more)
Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual
Bringing together leading authorities, this volume synthesizes the breadth of current research on child and adolescent treatment into a practical handbook for students and clinicians. The book was... (more)
Getting Ahead of ADHD: What Next-Generation Science Says About Treatments That Work and How You Can Make Them Work for Your Child
Does toxic pollution cause attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? What about screen use? Are alternative treatments worth exploring? Can dietary changes help? This book explores exciting... (more)
School Bullying and Mental Health: Risks, Intervention and Prevention
Bullying amongst young people is a serious and pervasive problem, and recent rapid advances in electronic communication technologies have provided even more tools for bullies to exploit. School... (more)
A Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Working in Nature
A Practical Guide to Play Therapy in the Outdoors responds to the significant and growing interest in the play therapy community of working in nature. Alison Chown provides practical ideas about why... (more)
Parental Vigilant Care: A Guide for Clinicians and Caretakers
This volume presents the concept of vigilant care as a protective and non-intrusive parental attitude to risky behaviors of children and adolescents. The effective component in vigilant care is not... (more)
Working with Co-Parents: A Manual for Therapists
Working with Co-Parents: A Manual for Therapists is a hands-on guide for therapists who work with divorced, separated and divorcing parents of children. Unique among other books that focus on therapy... (more)
Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World
Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids are addicted, detached, or distracted because of their... (more)
Engaging Parents in Adolescent Therapy: Beyond the Waiting Room
Engaging Parents in Adolescent Therapy offers mental health professionals effective strategies to involve parents in the counseling process with adolescents. Weaving together the most current... (more)
Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children
Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals who work with children an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients.... (more)
Essential Research Findings in Child and Adolescent Counselling and Psychotherapy
What can child and adolescent counsellors and therapists learn from research? What evidence is there for the effectiveness of different therapies and techniques? How can developmental or neuroscience... (more)
Weaving the Cradle: Facilitating Groups to Promote Attunement and Bonding Between Parents, Their Babies and Toddlers
Groups for parents, babies and toddlers, spanning the 1001 critical days from late pregnancy up to age two, are an effective way of supporting expectant and new parents by helping them to become more... (more)
Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health: A Handbook for Frontline Caregivers Working with Women with Perinatal Mental Health Difficulties
Postnatal Depression and Maternal Mental Health: A Handbook for Frontline Caregivers Working with Women with Perinatal Mental Health Difficulties is an accessible handbook that is intended to support... (more)
Difficult Identities: Treating the Psychotic Child
Through clinical illustrations and theoretical considerations, Difficult Identities discusses the centrality of transference in helping young patients overcome the difficulties in constructing their... (more)
Practical Supervision for Counsellors Who Work with Young People
Counsellors working with young people often find it can feel like messy, complex work. What helps when counsellors are stuck? This book recalls those moments when supervision sessions have been... (more)
Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Big Feelings: A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
To be able to effectively offer therapy to children, complex therapeutic concepts need to be presented in an appropriate and engaging manner. This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in... (more)
Promoting Young Children's Emotional Health and Wellbeing: A Practical Guide for Professionals and Parents
Positive emotional health in a child's earliest years can be a critical factor in their future development. Offering practical suggestions for games, activities and exercises designed to promote... (more)
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.... (more)
Outside the Box: Rethinking Add/ADHD in Children and Adults: A Practical Guide
Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults: A Practical Guide identifies assumptions about ADD/ADHD that demand re-evaluation in light of recent research. Building upon a current,... (more)
Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation
In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following... (more)
Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents: Third Edition
Widely regarded as the standard reference and text, this book has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians and students to exemplary treatment approaches for social, emotional, and behavioral... (more)
Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Young Children: Effective Interventions in the Preschool and Kindergarten Years
Presenting interventions that are practical, effective, and easy to implement in educational and clinical settings, this book addresses the most frequently encountered emotional and behavioral... (more)
Developing Empathy: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Compassion for Therapists and Parents
Empathy is valued across cultures, and has a profound impact on psychotherapy, our children, and our world. Why then are many human relationships not empathetic? This volume describes in detail the... (more)