Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Learning About Human Nature and Analytic Technique from Mothers and Babies
We have much to learn from mothers and babies, not just about early life psychic phenomena that are active in us, but also about the analytic technique, when the internal setting becomes more... (more)
The Twin Enigma: An Exploration of Our Enduring Fascination with Twins
The book offers a unique in-depth understanding of the twin relationship, and the way in which twin development is affected by our attitudes to twins and our enduring fascination with them. It... (more)
DSM-5 Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Building on the best-selling Pocket Guide to the DSM-5(t) Diagnostic Exam, The DSM-5(R) Pocket Guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health teaches readers how to formulate a diagnosis and treatment... (more)
DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health
DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health offers trainees and clinicians who provide mental health services to children and adolescents a concise but conceptually and clinically rich... (more)
Play in Family Therapy: Second Edition
This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice. Eliana Gil demonstrates a broad... (more)
What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents: Second Edition
The standard reference in the field, this acclaimed work synthesizes findings from hundreds of carefully selected studies of mental health treatments for children and adolescents. Chapters on... (more)
Helping Children and Families Cope with Parental Illness: A Clinician's Guide
When a parent or parental figure is diagnosed with an illness, the family unit changes and clinical providers should consider using a family-centered approach to care, and not just focus on the... (more)
Counseling Adolescents Through Loss, Grief, and Trauma
Loss, grief, and trauma come into the lives of adolescents in many forms and with more frequency than the adults in their lives may realize. Assessing the depth and nature of their emotions can be... (more)
Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A Responsive Approach to Communities
Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental health work undertaken in one inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by professionals... (more)
Play Therapy: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice
This authoritative work brings together leading play therapists to describe state-of-the-art clinical approaches and applications. The book explains major theoretical frameworks and summarizes the... (more)
CBT for Depression in Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Relapse Prevention
Despite the availability of effective treatments for child and adolescent depression, relapse rates in this population remain high. This innovative manual presents an evidence-based brief therapy for... (more)
Straight Talk About Psychiatric Medications for Kids: Fourth Edition
When a child is struggling with an emotional or behavioral problem, parents face many difficult decisions. Is medication the right choice? What about side effects? How long will medication be needed?... (more)
Group Activities for Latino/a Youth: Strengthening Identities and Resiliencies Through Counseling
Directly applicable to practice, Group Activities for Latino/a Youth allows helping professionals such as human service workers, social workers, and school and community mental health counselors to... (more)
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach: Third Edition
The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible resource for clinical... (more)
A Girl's Childhood: Psychological Development, Social Change, and the Yale Child Study Center
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Study Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general... (more)
Guided Imagery Work with Kids: Essential Practices to Help Them Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety and Build Self-Esteem
Guided imagery - or visualizations - can be very effective in alleviating a host of common emotional issues in kids, from anxiety and insecurity to stress, anger, and the effects of bullying. This... (more)
A Practical Guide to Helping Children and Young People Who Experience Trauma: A Practical Guide
This will be a concise and practical resource for a range of carers and practitioners working with children who experienced trauma. It will highlight their characteristics in contrast with those for... (more)
Cognitive Development: Infancy Through Adolescence
Written in Kathleen M. Galotti's signature engaging style, this text is a dynamic examination of cognitive development from infancy through adolescence. Updated and reorganized throughout, the Second... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)
Group Work with Adolescents: Principles and Practice: Third Edition
A trusted course text and professional resource, this comprehensive book delves into all aspects of planning and conducting strengths-based group work with adolescents. In an accessible,... (more)
Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models
With contributions from prominent experts, this pragmatic book takes a close look at the nature of complex psychological trauma in children and adolescents and the clinical challenges it presents.... (more)
Essential Play Therapy Techniques: Time-Tested Approaches
Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to... (more)
Behavioral Activation with Adolescents: A Clinician's Guide
This book presents the first behavioral activation (BA) program to help 12- to 18-year-olds overcome depression. Provided is a systematic framework for increasing adolescents' engagement in rewarding... (more)
Mental Health and Wellbeing Through Schools: The Way Forward
This book will help you identify and address a range of current challenges in this rapidly-developing field of endeavour. The opening chapter details lessons learned from research and practice,... (more)
Wounded Angels: Lessons of Courage from Children in Crisis: Second Edition
Wounded Angels: Lessons of Courage from Children in Crisis uses vignettes of children in crisis placements to portray how troubling behaviors can be utilized as clues to what can help children and... (more)
Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy with Children in Crisis
In Short-Term Psychodynamic Therapy with Children in Crisis, Elisabeth Cleve presents the therapeutic stories of four children who have experienced trauma or are displaying dramatic clinical symptoms... (more)
Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law
In Sexual Aggression Against Children: Pedophiles' and Abusers' Development, Dynamics, Treatability, and the Law, Drs. Blackman and Dring use multiple psychoanalytic principles to answer, Why do... (more)
Dialogues with Children and Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Guide
Psychoanalytic work with children is popular, but the sophisticated language used in psychoanalytic discourse can be at odds with how children communicate, and how best to communicate with them.... (more)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Children: A Guide for the Community Practitioner: Second Edition
This new edition of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Children links together the methods of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) practiced in academic centers as well as the community. This book... (more)
Emotional Abuse of Children
This is a research-informed learning resource for students in social work about the dynamics and consequences of psychological abuse -especially as it occurs in dysfunctional families and affects... (more)