Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Grief and Trauma in Children: An Evidence-Based Treatment Manual
Grief and Trauma in Children provides easy-to-implement, ready-to-use therapy materials to help busy practitioners use grief and trauma interventions in real-world settings. All interventions in the... (more)
Do Mothers Dream of Electric Babies?: The Importance of Emotional Bonds for Growing, Nurturing, and Educating
We live in a society that ignores and disregards attachment needs and feelings. Starting from this consideration, the author describes the stages of human emotional development in a lucid narrative... (more)
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualised, time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven... (more)
Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Compact and authoritative guidance on evidence-based treatment for ADHD in children and adolescents.
Part of the Advances in Psychotherapy -Evidence-Based Practice series, which provides... (more)
Understanding Applied Behavior Analysis: An Introduction to ABA for Parents, Teachers, and Other Professionals: Second Edition
This introductory guide to ABA demystifies the often complex terminology, the underlying principles, and commonly-used procedures of ABA using accessible, everyday language. This revised and updated... (more)
A Short Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Children with Eating Disorders
More and more young people are suffering from eating disorders, but there are many different types and they are often confused, making it difficult to know what support to offer. This easy-to-read... (more)
Teen Anxiety: A CBT and ACT Activity Resource Book for Helping Anxious Adolescents
Today's teens are faced with all sorts of decisions, dilemmas and difficulties, from exam worries to friendship and relationship problems. The result is that anxiety is an increasingly common... (more)
Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome - My Daughter is Not Naughty
Jane Alison Sherwin's honest and uplifting account provides insight into the challenges of bringing up a child with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). After years of misdiagnosis, Jane's daughter,... (more)
The Music of Being: Music Therapy, Winnicott and the School of Object Relations
This book explores how the work of key child development theorists informs music therapy practice with children and families. Focusing primarily on the theoretical thinking and understanding of the... (more)
A Short Introduction to Helping Young People Manage Anxiety
Anxiety is an increasingly common problem in young people, but there are many different causes and types, and it can be difficult to know where to start in order to understand it and know how best to... (more)
Play and Art in Child Psychotherapy: An Expressive Arts Therapy Approach
Ellen G. Levine draws on her extensive experience in clinical settings to present a series of case studies that demonstrate how art-making and imaginary play can provide a space for children to... (more)
Autism Spectrum Disorder and De-Escalation Strategies: A Practical Guide to Positive Behavioural Interventions for Children and Young People
This practical guide provides a complete picture of how non-physical and physical interventions can be used to manage behaviour and keep children with autism spectrum disorders or emotional, social... (more)
Parenting OCD: Down to Earth Advice from One Parent to Another
When your child has OCD your world can turn upside down and inside out. Claire Sanders has been managing her son's severe OCD for more than 8 years and, although there are no quick fixes, she has... (more)
Children and Young People Whose Behaviour is Sexually Concerning or Harmful: Assessing Risk and Developing Safety Plans
More than any other challenging behaviour, the sexual abuse of one child by another generates anxiety, puzzlement and confusion. Adults confident in dealing with a defiant or delinquent child find... (more)
Melanie Klein Revisited: Pioneer and Revolutionary in the Psychoanalysis of Young Children
While much writing has been devoted, predominantly by contemporary Kleinian adult psychoanalysts, to the Kleinian and post Kleinian development of Klein’s work, comparatively little has recently been... (more)
Turning the Tide: The Psychoanalytic Approach of the Fitzjohn's Unit to Patients with Complex Needs
Since it was founded in 1920, the Tavistock Clinic has developed a wide range of developmental approaches to mental health which have been strongly influenced by the ideas of psychoanalysis. It has... (more)
The Role of the Father in Child Development: Fifth Edition
Completely revised and updated, The Role of the Father in Child Development: Fifth Edition brings together contributions from an international group of experts on the role of fathers in child... (more)
Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents
Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents provides expert guidance to practitioners responding to high-stakes situations, such as children considering or... (more)
Therapy with Infants: Treating a Traumatised Child
When a child without a fully developed language experiences physical and psychological stress that exceeds the child’s capacity to cope, the experience can leave lasting marks, unless the child... (more)
Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond: Personal and Professional Perspectives
This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges... (more)
Handbook of Narrative Psychotherapy for Children, Adults, and Families: Theory and Practice
The Handbook Narrative Psychotherapy for Children, Adults and Families combines philosophical, scientific and theoretical insights in the field of narrative psychotherapy and links them to sources of... (more)
Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences
There is a wide gap between the psychological needs of the children of refugees and the services provided. Refugees’ home countries, cultures, and social make-up are widely diversified, and their... (more)
Fifty Years of the Tavistock Clinic (Psychology Revivals)
Originally published in 1970, this title commemorates the men and ideas that started, inspired and established a pioneer institution in British psychiatry. Based on the impetus of Freudian and... (more)
Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives: Second Edition
Child Development: Theories and Critical Perspectives provides an engaging and perceptive overview of both well-established and recent theories in child and adolescent psychology. This unique summary... (more)
Siblings in Adolescence: Emerging Individuals, Lasting Bonds
How do brothers and sisters shape one another? Siblings in Adolescence provides a comprehensive overview of the most up-to-date, international empirical research on the sibling bond during the... (more)
Early Encounters with Children and Adolescents: Beginning Psychodynamic Therapists' First Cases
Early Encounters with Children and Adolescents is the first training guide to use the works of beginning therapists as its focus. Far too often, therapists in training are given the classics to... (more)
Changing Adolescence: Social Trends and Mental Health
The general well-being of British adolescents has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years, but too often this is based on myth rather than fact. Are today's young people more stressed,... (more)
Six Children: The Spectrum of Child Psychopathology and its Treatment
Theoretically anchored and historically informed, Six Children is a book about the nuances of child psychoanalysis as these unfold in the encounter with different forms of early life anguish.... (more)
Young Children's Personal, Social and Emotional Development: Fourth Edition
Young children's personal, social and emotional development is an area of ever-increasing interest to those working in the field of early childhood. This fully revised fourth edition of Marion... (more)
Doing Mental Health Research With Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Qualitative Methods
Researching child and adolescent mental health can be a daunting task, but with the right practical skills and knowledge your students can transform the way they work with children and young people,... (more)