Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Mother-Baby-Toddler Group Guide: A Psychodynamic Approach
This book is a comprehensive guide for leading mother-baby-toddler groups, a text for teaching child development, and a handbook for early intervention.
The guidelines provide a detailed... (more)
Respark: Igniting Hope and Joy After Trauma and Depression
How can we respark joy and hope after despondency, numbness or trauma? Acclaimed psychotherapist and trauma expert, Graham Music, in his sixth book, distils decades of experience to deliver a roadmap... (more)
The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation
In this second edition of Joyanna Silberg's classic The Child Survivor, practitioners who treat dissociative children will find practical tools that are backed up by recent advances in clinical... (more)
From Trauma to Harming Others: Therapeutic Work with Delinquent, Violent and Sexually Harmful Children and Young People
From Trauma to Harming Others shows the approach of professionals from the world-renowned Portman Clinic, which specializes in work with violence, delinquency and sexual acting out.
This book... (more)
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Making the Conscious Unconscious: Third Edition
In this new edition Blake gives a personal account of his professional experience of working with children and adolescents over the last 45 years. Providing a wonderful integration of the conceptual... (more)
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Puberty and Adolescence: The Inner Worlds of Teenagers and their Parents
Puberty is a time of tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood activated by rapid physical changes, hormonal development and explosive activity of neurons. This book explores puberty through... (more)
Baby Observation: Emotional Relationships during the First Year of Life
A vivid description of a baby’s first year of life. Original edition published in 1990 by Clunie Press and this new edition published in 2021 with a foreword by Jeanne Magagna.
‘Manuel... (more)
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are: Third Edition
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is,... (more)
The Teaching Effective Supervision of Child and Adolescent Analysis: Enriching the Candidate's Clinical Experience
In Teaching Effective Supervision of Child and Adolescent Analysis: Enriching the Candidate's Clinical Experience, Anita G. Schmukler and Paula G. Atkeson present a diverse guidebook that assists... (more)
Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma: Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation
Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach... (more)
Discovering Françoise Dolto: Psychoanalysis, Identity and Child Development
This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and... (more)
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Paternal Subjectivity interfaces theoretical ideas about fatherhood and their incorporation into the clinical practice of... (more)
Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Radical Relational Approach
Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic... (more)
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris
This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and... (more)
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist brings together selected papers from the career of Ann Horne, and interrogates her vast experience in the field of... (more)
Thinking about Infants and Young Children
This book describes some of the important aspects of the development of infants and young children from birth to school age. It is illustrated by vignettes of scenes between parents and children and... (more)
Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques. Coverage... (more)
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy: Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives
Psychodynamic Interventions in Pregnancy and Infancy builds on Bjorn Salomonsson's experiences as a psychoanalytic consultant working with parents and their babies. Emotional problems during the... (more)
Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders: Who They Are, How They Operate, and How we can Protect Ourselves and our Children
A nationally renowned consultant on sex offenders offers a chilling and insightful psychological profile of this particular kink in the human animal, revealing how they think and how and why they... (more)
Engaging Infants: Embodied Communication in Short-Term Infant-Parent Therapy
The book begins by describing, within a psychodynamic approach, some traits an infant may bring to an intervention, followed by descriptions of interventions in several specialised perinatal... (more)
Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time, and Why it Matters
For many children and teens daily Internet use is the norm - but where should we draw the line when it comes to digital media usage? This handy book lays out the essential information needed to... (more)
M in the Middle: Secret Crushes, Mega-Colossal Anxiety and the People's Republic of Autism
I'll never have a Card Emporium series of life events: a boyfriend, a fiance, a husband and a future. A future with lots of sparkly cards celebrating all these big life events. I was on course and... (more)
Inclusion, Play and Empathy: Neuroaffective Development in Children's Groups
Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and... (more)
Latency: The Golden Age of Childhood
This book concerns the child’s emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy years of child development and adolescence. The... (more)
Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children's Imaginative Know-How
Children's innate inventiveness and self-knowledge are important resources for narrative therapy, in which therapist and client work to re-author the story of the client's life. This book teaches... (more)
The Healing Forest in Post-Crisis Work with Children: A Nature Therapy and Expressive Arts Program for Groups
Nature Therapy is an innovative approach for working with children who have experienced stress or trauma. For the first time in the English language, this book presents the theory behind the approach... (more)
Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child
Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of... (more)
Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder: Second Edition
Tens of thousands of parents have turned to this compassionate resource for support and practical advice grounded in cutting-edge scientific knowledge. Numerous vivid stories show how to recognize... (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)
The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development
The Shadow of the Second Mother explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that "second mothers", such as wet nurses... (more)