Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Brief Counselling in Schools: Working with Young People from 11 to 18: Third Edition
A highly practical and accessible guide to helping and supporting young people experiencing difficulties both at home and at school or college. Covering issues from low self-esteem and sexuality, to... (more)
Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults
The first practical and research-based manual to guide students and practitioners on working specifically with traumatized adolescents. John Briere and Cheryl Lanktree fill a gap in what's currently... (more)
Psychotherapy with Infants and Young Children: Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment
This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child--parent psychotherapy promotes the... (more)
Psychotherapy for Children with Bipolar and Depressive Disorders
Packed with ready-to-use clinical tools, this book presents the first evidence-based psychosocial treatment for school-age children with bipolar disorder or depression. Leading clinician/researcher... (more)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents: Second Edition
Grounded in extensive research and clinical experience, this manual provides a complete guide to interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed adolescents (IPT-A). IPT-A is an evidence-based brief... (more)
Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
Attachment research has tremendous potential for helping clinicians understand what happens when parent-child bonds are disrupted, and what can be done to help. Yet there remains a large gap between... (more)
Emotions in Child Psychotherapy: An Integrative Framework
Emotions are the common ground of child psychotherapy and a therapists essential means of communication with children. Improved emotional resilience must be the shared therapeutic goal of all those... (more)
The PMLD Ambiguity: Articulating the Life-Worlds of Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
This book challenges the ways we experience, think about, and interact with children described as having profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD). Contrary to received wisdom, the book... (more)
Manual for Short-term Psychoanalytic Child Therapy (PaCT)
Manualisation of psychodynamic psychotherapy poses a formidable challenge, but may prove indispensable in the effort to disseminate short-term psychodynamic treatments to a wider patient community.... (more)
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Wounded Spirits and Healing Paths
This edited collection addresses the multiple sources of wounding of children and teens in contemporary life. The book conveys a message of hope and optimism, even in work with children who might be... (more)
The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects Across the Life Cycle
This book describes the profound interferences with normal developmental processes that occur throughout the life cycle as a result of chronic child sexual abuse. This conviction is supported by the... (more)
Handling Children's Aggression Constructively: Toward Taming Human Destructiveness
Handling Children's Aggression Constructively shows how to prevent the development of disturbed aggressive behaviors in children, giving caregivers and educators the tools they need to handle... (more)
The Anna Freud Tradition: Lines of Development - Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
This volume honours Anna Freud’s work and legacy by providing a detailed summary of the Psychoanalytic Developmental Tradition and illustrations of its contributions to the field of Child... (more)
Working with Distressed Young People
This book is an essential guide for those who want to understand and work with troubled young people. Anyone working in the caring professions and education who wishes to understand the causes of... (more)
The Language of Drawings: A New Finding in Psychodynamic Work
If a person is struggling with feeling that involve pain or anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties affecting that person’s capacity to express what torments him. Whatever the... (more)
Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents: A Process-Oriented Guide for Therapists
This book provides therapists with a time-tested framework for treatment and a moment-by-moment guide to the first few sessions with a new patient. In twelve remarkable case studies, verbatim... (more)
Play in Clinical Practice: Evidence-based Approaches
This innovative book goes beyond traditional play therapy to present a range of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches that incorporate play as a key element. It is grounded in the... (more)
Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: Assessment and Accommodation
Most of the literature on learning disabilities and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) focuses on the needs of elementary school-age children, but older students with these conditions... (more)
Treatment of Depression in Adolescents and Adults: Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
Mental health practitioners are increasingly forced to use evidence-based practices by third-party providers. However, studies have shown practitioners rarely use evidence-based practices because of... (more)
Foundations of Play Therapy: Second Edition
This fully updated and revised Second Edition provides in-depth coverage of all the major models of play therapy from leading play therapists. Each chapter is fully revised and provides up-to-date... (more)
Creating Change for Complex Children and Their Families: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Multi-Family Work
The strain of caring for children struggling with severe and complex mental health needs affects the entire family. The staff at the innovative Croft Child and Family Unit have developed a unique... (more)
Set for Success: Activities for Teaching Emotional, Social and Organisational Skills
To be successful in today's world, all children need to become competent in emotional, social and organizational skills. This engaging and easy-to-implement resource will be an invaluable tool for... (more)
Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches: Enabling Children to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Their Potential
Based on solution focused practice principles, this book illustrates communication skills and playful techniques for working with all children and young people, regardless of any health, learning or... (more)
Recognizing and Helping the Neglected Child: Evidence-based Practice for Assessment and Intervention
Neglect is the most common form of child abuse, but recognizing the signs, assessing the familys and the child's needs, and undertaking intervention can be difficult and complicated. This book, based... (more)
Narrative Play Therapy: Theory and Practice
Narrative Play Therapy is a highly effective play-based psychological intervention that enables therapists to help children communicate difficult experiences and complex emotions through... (more)
Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides the guidelines for what school personnel must do, and are held accountable for, in their educational assessments and evaluations of... (more)
The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Predictable Life Crises
Does your young daughter talk endlessly about invisible friends, dragons in the basement, and monsters in the closet? Is your teenager about to start high school or being victimized by bullies? Is... (more)
Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescents
Mental health problems disrupt the lives of many young people and their families, putting them at risk for instability as adults. This is particularly true for children from vulnerable populations,... (more)
Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy
This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people aged nine years to fifteen years suffering from... (more)