Child and Adolescent Studies Books
What Are They Thinking?!: The Straight Facts About the Risk-Taking, Social-Networking, Still-Developing Teen Brain
Adolescence has long been characterized as the storm and stress years, and with recent developments in digital communication, it seems today s teens are in for a more complicated journey than ever... (more)
Chosen: Living with Adoption
Chosen brings together writing and poetry by over 50 UK adopted adults born between 1934 and 1984. Through a broad range of perspectives – adoption within the extended family, late discovery adopted... (more)
The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story
In this new edition of a classic in adoption literature, Mother Bird rises to meet the challenges of bringing up her baby bird against all odds and elements. When a storm scatters her nest, she is... (more)
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts equips parents and primary carers with the knowledge and skills to be able to respond to children's changing needs as they move through childhood. In clear,... (more)
The Art and Science of Motivation: A Therapist's Guide to Working with Children
The authors' groundbreaking approach to working with children and their parents or carers places motivation at the heart of all encounters and therapeutic activities.
The book provides readers... (more)
Surviving Girlhood: Building Positive Relationships, Attitudes and Self-esteem to Prevent Teenage Girl Bullying
Teenage girls can be mean. Often stemming from poor self-awareness, self-esteem and lack of relationship skills, complex friendship dynamics can be difficult to unravel and bullying can be hard to... (more)
Starving the Anxiety Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anxiety Management for Young People
The Anxiety Gremlin loves one thing - to feed on your anxiety and get bigger and bigger, making you more anxious the fuller he gets! How can you stop him? Starve him of his favourite food - your... (more)
Starving the Stress Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Stress Management for Young People
Watch out for the Stress Gremlin - he loves to feed on your stress, and as he gets bigger and bolder, you get more and more stressed! How can he be stopped? Don't give him any more stress to eat, and... (more)
Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings: A Tool for Assessment and Support
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and... (more)
Observing Children with Attachment or Emotional Difficulties in School: A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties
Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and... (more)
What Does Dead Mean?: A Book for Young Children to Help Explain Death and Dying
What Does Dead Mean? is a beautifully illustrated book that guides children gently through 17 of the 'big' questions they often ask about death and dying. Questions such as 'Is being dead like... (more)
Play, Gender, Therapy: Selected Papers of Eleanor Galenson
Eleanor Galenson had a remarkable career whose singular focus was her life-long interest in the maturational and psychosexual vicissitudes of infancy and early childhood. The selection of her... (more)
Healing Art and Young People
In Healing Art and Young People, Trevor Jeavons gives a valuable insight into the world of art therapy. Interweaving moving examples from his work with young patients with his professional and... (more)
Your Dieting Daughter: Antidotes Parents Can Provide for Body Dissatisfaction, Excessive Dieting, and Disordered Eating: Second Edition
Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman's development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30. Costin has updated the first... (more)
Paediatrics, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: Through Counter-Transference to Case Management
How do children and parents shape clinical practice? How can clinicians learn from the impact of their patients upon them? How do we recognise if health care practices are adversely affecting health... (more)
How Infants Know Minds
Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a 'theory of mind' - some basic ideas about other people's minds - at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this... (more)
Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 190* Fourth edition of the most comprehensive examination of newborn behavior available* Well established and used globally as a research instrument and in... (more)
Dream and Fantasy in Child Analysis
The contributions to this book, containing talks given at the Conference in Vienna on 'Dream and Fantasy in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy', focus on the close connection... (more)
Child Development: An Illustrated Guide with DVD: Birth to 19 Years: Third edition
This new edition will continue to give generations of students substantial success and enjoyment in their training, study and their work with children and young people. (more)
Observing Children in Their Natural Worlds: A Methodological Primer Third Edition
This book shows readers how to conduct observational methods, research tools used to describe and explain behaviors as they unfold in everyday settings. The book now uses both an evolutionary and a... (more)
The Late Teenage Years: From Seventeen to Adulthood
The problems which the individual has to deal with in adolescence are qualitatively different from those of childhood; they are related in particular to the adolescent's reaction/responses to the... (more)
Young People and the Care Experience: Research, Policy and Practice
This book explores the range of care options for young people who are, for a variety of reasons, unable to live with their parents. It puts these issues in a global context, and makes suggestions for... (more)
Trafficked Young People: Breaking the Wall of Silence
Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of... (more)
Teenagers and Technology
The popular media often presents a negative picture of young people and technology. From addiction to gaming, the distractions of the Internet, to the risks of social networking, the downsides of new... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anger and Aggression in Children
This highly practical book presents an evidence-based individual therapy approach for children and adolescents experiencing anger problems. Comprising 10 child sessions and 3 parent sessions, the... (more)
Women, Mothers, Subjects: New Explorations of the Maternal
This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking and theorizing about what happens to women when they... (more)
Family-Centered Treatment With Struggling Young Adults: A Clinician's Guide to the Transition From Adolescence to Autonomy
An indispensible guidebook to the unique set of problems and opportunities that families face when young adults are experiencing difficulty pulling anchor and setting sail. Renowned clinician Brad... (more)
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: One Hundred Years After Little Hans
Since Freud's publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and... (more)
Winnicott's Children: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Winnicott's Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of D.W. Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has... (more)
Out of the Mainstream: Helping the Children of Parents with a Mental Illness
Out of the Mainstream identifies those aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children's development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively.... (more)