Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Engaging with Complexity: Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Education
Children and young people spend a great deal of their time in schools and other education settings. Consequently those working in such contexts have a huge impact and influence on the development,... (more)
Suffer the Children: The Case Against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative
A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioural problems without stigmatizing diagnoses. Disturbingly, a great number of children... (more)
Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn? Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition,... (more)
Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness
Again and again, young people return to the question, 'Am I the same as other people or am I different?' It's a difficult question to answer. Everyone knows that they're the same as other people in... (more)
The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The Role of Art, Magic and Dreams in Child Development
Alongside the world of everyday reality, the young child develops an imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, daydreams, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic. This book charts the... (more)
A Treatment Manual for Adolescents Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour
A resource for clinicians working therapeutically with male adolescents who have shown harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). Comprised of a printed manual and a CD-ROM, it is designed to be delivered over... (more)
Engaging Boys in Treatment: Creative Approaches to the Therapy Process
This edited book is the first of its kind to focus on creative approaches to the treatment of boys, providing a valuable resource for both students and professionals seeking new and effective... (more)
Child Anxiety Disorders: A Guide to Research and Treatment: Second Edition
Childhood anxiety disorders represent one of the most common psychological disorders found among the general population. They can be serious, distressful, and functionally impairing, so much so that... (more)
Advanced Play Therapy: Essential Conditions, Knowledge, and Skills for Child Practice
The purpose of this text is to present a resource to students and practitioners of play therapy that addresses topics beyond the training level. Current play therapy resources offer details on how to... (more)
The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic
There is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long-lasting effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved in... (more)
101 More Favorite Play Therapy Techniques
Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for easy reference and use.
The interventions... (more)
Play and Playfulness: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Aspects
While the psychodynamic understanding of play and play's therapeutic potential was long restricted to the realm of children, Winnicott's work demonstrated the profound significance of the capacity to... (more)
International Handbook of Play Therapy: Advances in Assessment, Theory, Research and Practice
In the past twenty-five years, the practice of play therapy has increased exponentially in America and throughout the world. This handbook brings together an international group of scholars and... (more)