Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents: A Four-Phase Model
Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents is the book so many expressive-arts and trauma therapists have been waiting for - not only does it lay out an organized, thorough... (more)
The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy: Second Edition
In The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents you will find the most powerful tools available for aiding children with their feelings, incorporating play techniques into therapy,... (more)
Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Sixth Edition
This Sixth Edition is an essential read for all professionals working and learning in the fields of child and adolescent mental health and developmental psychopathology, as well as for clinicians... (more)
Winnicott's Theory of the Maturational Processes
This book presents the central concepts of Winnicott’s theory of the maturational processes, clarifying its premises and providing an organised description of the various stages, with their... (more)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families: Third Edition
Now firmly established as the standard text on the subject, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families, 3rd edition incorporates new and updated material on many topics not covered in... (more)
Asperger's Children: Psychodynamics, Aetiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
The DSM-5 (2013) classifies all autism-related disorders, including Asperger’s, under the heading “autism spectrum disorder.” This book argues that this lumping together is unhelpful for clinicians.... (more)
Working with Children and Adolescents in Residential Care: A Strengths-Based Approach
Working with Children and Adolescents in Residential Care: A Strengths-Based Approach is written for professionals who work with children and youth in out of home placements, be they social services... (more)
Assessing Children in the Urban Community: Bringing in the Village
This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their... (more)
Play Therapy Interventions to Enhance Resilience
The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized. This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe... (more)
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children: Third Edition
Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from... (more)
Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents: Tools for Enhancing Practice
Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities - all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework - this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their... (more)
Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents: The Nuts and Bolts: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the standard teaching text and practitioner reference, this book provides a complete introduction to doing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with 6- to 18-year-olds. The authors... (more)
Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Theory and Clinical Interventions: Second Edition
Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents presents a series of unique and compelling case studies written by some of the foremost international experts in the study of dissociation in... (more)
An Independent Mind: Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins
An Independent Mind: Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins follows the professional journey and influence of an innovative figure in the history of child psychotherapy. Juliet Hopkins spans Kleinian and... (more)