Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Pride and Joy: A Guide to Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Solving Family Problems
This book is written for parents of young children - those struggling with chronic child behavior problems as well as those who simply wish to parent mindfully and compassionately, and who are... (more)
Counseling Children and Adolescents in Schools
A text and workbook designed to help aspiring school practitioners (school psychologists, school counsellors, and school social workers) gain the necessary theoretical background and skill set to... (more)
CBT with Children Young People and Families
This book uniquely addresses the application of CBT to children and young people within health, school and community contexts. With the recent expansion of increasing access to psychological... (more)
Nurturing Children and Families: Building on the Legacy of T. Berry Brazelton
This volume celebrates the work and influence of T. Berry Brazelton, one of the world's foremost pediatricians, by bringing together contributions from researchers and clinicians whose own pioneering... (more)
Executive Function and Child Development
Poor executive function (EF) in the brain can mean behavioural and attentional problems in school. This book explains to parents and professionals how EF develops in kids, what EF difficulties look... (more)
Phobic and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
This authoritative but compact text addresses the psychopathology, assessment, and treatment of the anxiety disorders and phobias in childhood and adolescence. These perplexing conditions are the... (more)
Cognitive-behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults: A Psychological Guide to Practice
The first edition of this book introduced the Young-Bramham Programme, a pioneering approach to cognitive behavioural treatment for ADHD in adults, which was well-received by clinical and academic... (more)
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: From Basic Science to Clinical Management
A cutting-edge synthesis of science and practice, this book covers everything from sports-related concussions to less common types of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and related complications.... (more)
Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis: Influential Theories and Practices in Healthy Child Development
In Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis Beatriz Markman Reubins presents the lives and theories of the early innovators of psychoanalytic theory as it is applied to child development - Sigmund Freud,... (more)
Racial Stereotyping and Child Development: Contributions to Human Development, Volume 25
In contemporary societies children's racial identity is co-constructed in response to racial stereotyping with extended family, peers and teachers, and potent media sources. The studies in this... (more)
Effective Counselling with Young People
This book examines key theoretical counselling perspectives and applies these specifically to work with young people. It establishes how to build counselling relationships in order to support young... (more)
Give Sorrow Words: Working with a Dying Child: Third Edition
Though there has been much written about dying and bereavement in recent years, the particular stress of terminal illness in childhood - as it affects both the families and the professionals - is... (more)
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism: Using Everyday Activities to Help Kids Connect, Communicate, and Learn
Cutting-edge research reveals that parents can play a major role in teaching even the youngest children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) how to connect with others and live up to their potential.... (more)
Trauma-Focused CBT for Children and Adolescents: : Treatment Applications
Since the publication of the authoritative Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) has become the leading empirically... (more)
What Made Freud Laugh: An Attachment Perspective on Laughter
In her characteristically engaging style, Nelson explores a topic that has fascinated and frustrated scholars for centuries. Initially drawn to the meaning of laughter through her decades of work... (more)
Reading Anna Freud
What place do Anna Freud's ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can Anna Freud teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant... (more)
Specialist Mental Healthcare for Children and Young People: Hospital and Community Intensive Services
A comprehensive range of services for young people requiring more intensive mental health services is being developed and this book explores what works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS)... (more)
Deciding Children's Futures: An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children's Welfare in the Family Court
Deciding Children's Futures addresses the thorny task of how to assess parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when... (more)
Adolescent Counselling Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice
Adolescent Counselling Psychology: Theory Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to therapeutic practice with young people. As an edited text, it brings together some of the leading... (more)
CBT for Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents
Chronic pain is a significant health problem for many children and adolescents and is often challenging for healthcare professionals to treat. Estimated to affect approximately 15% to 30% of... (more)
The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation and Loss
This edited volume focuses upon the formation of an individual's self in the crucible of the early mother-child relationship. Bringing together contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts and... (more)
Young Children and their Parents: Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Infant Observation
The book describes, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the development of the parent-infant relationship in the first years of life. It follows the development of the child's relationship to his or... (more)
The Transformational Self: Attachment and the End of the Adolescent Phase
This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal transformational changes associated with the transition from adolescence to... (more)
The Educational Role of the Family: A Psychoanalytical Model
This tract was commissioned from Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris in 1976 by the Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development as part of a project to develop policies and programmes that would... (more)
Problem Solving in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Skills-Based Collaborative Approach
This highly accessible book presents clear steps for helping children and adolescents to develop and test out new solutions to specific social, emotional, or behavioral challenges. The author... (more)
Love Bombing: Reset Your Child's Emotional Thermostat
"Love Bombing" is a radical new method for resetting the emotional thermostats of troubled children and their parents, setting them on a much happier trajectory. It is simple to do, easily explained... (more)
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood. Part One brings... (more)
Communicating with Children When a Parent is at the End of Life
When a parent is nearing the end of life, children can feel like their world has been turned upside down, and they are often scared and confused about what is happening. Sensitive and clear... (more)
Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster
Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster addresses the effects of disaster on children and their families, and explores the various resources that mental health practitioners and... (more)
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents provides readers with the defining fundamentals of CBT in an accessible, down-to-earth style. In addition, a well-integrated, developmentally... (more)