Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Communication Skills for Working with Children and Young People: Introducing Social Pedagogy
For those working with children, effective communication is a crucial part of building relationships and encouraging children's emotional and intellectual development. This practical guide identifies... (more)
Effective Working with Neglected Children and Their Families: Linking Interventions with Long-Term Outcomes
Parents who neglect children present considerable challenges to child welfare professionals, and are often resistant to change. This book addresses an urgent need to ensure that social care... (more)
Safeguarding Children from Abroad: Refugee, Asylum Seeking and Trafficked Children in the UK
Children from abroad who are alone in the UK are vulnerable and at increased risk of harm without the care and protection of their parents or caregivers. They may be unaccompanied asylum seekers,... (more)
Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: Practical Guidance and Ready-To-Use Resources
How do I implement effective strategies for treating traumatic stress in this particular child or adolescent? Clinical Exercises for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents combines... (more)
Life Coaching for Kids: A Practical Manual to Coach Children and Young People to Success, Well-Being and Fulfilment
Life coaching is a great way to help children and young people build self-esteem, set positive goals and deal with difficult issues such as bullying, anxiety and poor body image. This book sets out... (more)
MI29: Mouseweb International to the Rescue!
Did you know that we humans are monitored by Mouseweb International, a worldwide network of mice working undercover to lend a paw whenever we need it most?
This is the story of Lily Jane... (more)
Simple Low-cost Games and Activities for Sensorimotor Learning: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Young Children Including Those with Autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, and Other Learning Differences
This practical sourcebook is packed full of fun, low-cost games and activities that encourage the development of motor skills, coordination and sensory tolerance in young children. Using materials... (more)
How to Get Kids Offline, Outdoors, and Connecting with Nature: 200+ Creative Activities to Encourage Self-esteem, Mindfulness, and Wellbeing
Full of ideas, activities and exercises, this book provides imaginative ways to inspire young people to put down the computer games, disconnect from social media, and spend more time away from a... (more)
Caged in Chaos: A Dyspraxic Guide to Breaking Free
Written by a teenager with dyspraxia, this is a humorous and inspiring practical guide for young adults with dyspraxia and those around them trying to get to grips with the physical, social and... (more)
Young People in Forensic Mental Health Settings: Psychological Thinking and Practice
Youth crime and youth violence blights our communities and shapes the lives of many, whether they are victims, perpetrators or family members. This book examines the application of psychological... (more)
Child Sexual Abuse: A Primer for Treating Children, Adolescents, and Their Nonoffending Parents
Children who have been sexually abused not only often experience PTSD symptoms as a direct result of the trauma, but also develop unhealthy emotional responses and may engage in age-inappropriate... (more)
Working with Parents of Anxious Children: Therapeutic Strategies for Encouraging Communication, Coping and Change
The topic of anxious children is on the front burner these days, both among parents and mental health professionals, and its only gaining attention as more and more clinicians are presented with... (more)
8 Keys to Parenting Children with ADHD
Parenting children with ADHD, whether diagnosed or undiagnosed, can be challenging and complex. But just as a child who struggles with reading can learn to decode words, children with ADHD can learn... (more)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Practical, All-in-One Guide
This reader-friendly handbook - organized around a range of common disorders for easy reference - draws on evidence-based practices to explain how to understand, diagnose, and treat a variety of... (more)
8 Keys to Raising the Quirky Child: How to Help a Kid Who Doesn't (Quite) Fit in
A quirky child experiences difficulty fitting in and connecting with others usually due to an interpersonal style or behavior that stands out from the other kids. Maybe they are obsessed with a topic... (more)
Using Hypnosis with Children: Creating and Delivering Effective Interventions
From the initial interview to creating the best metaphors, readers will find a guide to using this alternate therapy with young clients. Individual sessions are discussed, as well as how hypnosis can... (more)
The Language of Distress: Understanding a Child's Behaviour
This book describes a series of cases where the child’s presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that the child expects the parents to understand and help... (more)
What To Do If the Mind Does Not Develop: A Psychoanalytic Study of Pervasive Developmental Disorders
The result of three decades of psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents, this book takes a fresh and empathic look on the pervasive developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence,... (more)
Play Therapy: A Non-Directive Approach for Children and Adolescents: 2nd Revised edition
This highly readable book provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to non-directive play therapy, which is an effective and ethically sound method of helping troubled children and... (more)
Sexuality in Adolescence: The Digital Generation
Sexuality in Adolescence: The Digital Generation provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research and theory about adolescent sexuality in today's world. The book examines biological,... (more)
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development: Classic Edition
Decades ahead of its time, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self was the first volume to bring together the disparate fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and the neural sciences.... (more)
Overcoming Chronic Fatigue in Young People: A Cognitive-Behavioural Self-Help Guide
Overcoming Chronic Fatigue in Young People provides an effective evidence-based, step-by-step guide to managing and overcoming chronic fatigue. The highly experienced leading experts in the field,... (more)
The Science Inside the Child: The Story of What Happens When We're Growing Up
This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do. It looks at children's individual development within the... (more)
Trauma Systems Therapy for Children and Teens: Second Edition
This highly practical book has helped thousands of clinicians make the most of limited resources to support children and families struggling with chronic, multiple adversities. Trauma systems therapy... (more)
Assessment for Intervention: A Problem-Solving Approach: Second Edition
Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). This... (more)
Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention
This edited volume features evidence-based reviews and practical approaches for the professional in the hospital, clinic, community and school, with case examples throughout. Divided into five major... (more)
Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to... (more)
Relational Treatment of Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope
Relational Treatment of Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope is the culmination of over 35 years of psychotherapy with children and adults, many of whom have suffered the effects of physical, emotional,... (more)
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents is a group-based curriculum incorporating mindfulness, self-awareness, and substance-abuse treatment strategies for use with adolescents... (more)
Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents: Phase-Oriented Strategies for Addressing Complex Trauma Disorders
Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents brings together two powerful treatment directions that exponentially expand the knowledge and skills available to child and adolescent... (more)