Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Organize Your ADD/ADHD Child: A Practical Guide for Parents
Living with AD/HD can be hectic, and parents of children with this disorder can be driven to distraction when even the simplest of tasks causes havoc. This book addresses the issues of organization... (more)
Human Givens Therapy with Adolescents: A Practical Guide for Professionals
Human Givens therapy recognises and addresses innate needs - or givens - common to all humans. The innovative approach is a highly effective way of dealing with the emotional difficulties faced by... (more)
Helping Children to Improve Their Communication Skills: Therapeutic Activities for Teachers, Parents and Therapists
For many children, the act of communication which most of us take for granted can be a struggle, and communicating with others can become something to fear rather than enjoy. This creative book is... (more)
Good Practice in Assessing Risk: Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches
Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of... (more)
Creative Expression Activities for Teens: Exploring Identity Through Art, Craft and Journaling
Coping with life's stresses is difficult for everybody, but can be especially challenging for teenagers who feel isolated and misunderstood. Creative expression through art, craft and writing is a... (more)
Creating Children's Art Games for Emotional Support
Game playing is a highly effective way of engaging children and has long been acknowledged as an important psychological intervention. Vicky Barber has compiled this book of games to help children to... (more)
Parents and Toddlers in Groups: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Approach
This book explores how psychoanalytic principles can be applied when working with parents and toddlers in groups. Illustrated with lively observations, it discusses how these parent-toddler groups... (more)
Achieving Positive Outcomes for Children in Care
The UK government has spent millions attempting, but largely failing, to improve personal, social and educational outcomes for children and young people in public care. This book explains why the... (more)
Primary Love: The Elemental Nature of Human Love, Intimacy, and Attachment
This book describes love and intimacy as they evolve in the context of family relations from birth to maturity in adulthood. Dr. Kleins view of love and intimacy is that found in the ideal marriage... (more)
Metaphorical Stories for Child Therapy: Of Magic and Miracles
Therapeutic metaphor and stories have long been used within modalities such as hypnotherapy, play therapy, narrative therapies, and expressive therapies. Metaphorical interventions reduce client... (more)
Increasing Awareness of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an international framework that gives special... (more)
Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self
Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be... (more)
Attachment Parenting: Developing Connections and Healing Children
Parenting for Attachment describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experiences that may interfere with the normal... (more)
Tree of Life: Poverty to Privelege to Psychiatry
A vivid account of John Rogers' journey from a very deprived early family experience, through a boarding school education, to work in an elite college, and his sudden descent into psychiatric... (more)
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychopathy
This comprehensive Handbook synthesizes the explosion of recent research on child and adolescent psychopathy: its nature, causes, development, assessment, and treatment. The editors and contributors... (more)
Education - An 'Impossible Profession'?: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Learning and Classrooms
In classrooms and lectures we learn not only about academic topics but also about ourselves, our peers and how people and ideas interact. Education - An 'Impossible Profession'? extends the ways in... (more)
Attachment Theory and the Teacher-student Relationship: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Teacher Educators and School Leaders
How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately interpret the underlying relationship processes can... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Paediatrics: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts with Sixteen Clinical Observations of Children
This book is Françoise Dolto’s 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psychoanalysis. Françoise Dolto’s aim was to... (more)
Unseen Worlds: Looking Through the Lens of Childhood
The child's world often revolves around dreams and fantasy. Imaginary friends, places and play can seem entirely real, and yet in dismissing these as 'just your imagination', many adults cut a tie... (more)
Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers: A Guide to Providing Understanding and Help
Supporting Traumatized Children and Teenagers is an accessible, comprehensive book providing an overview of the impact of trauma on children and adolescents and how they can be supported following... (more)
Reflective Practice in Mental Health: Advanced Psychosocial Practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults
Reflective Practice in Mental Health is the authoritative, definitive guide to psycho-social theory and practice in mental health. Featuring contributions from eminent experts, the book uses case... (more)
Promoting Psychological Well-being in Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
Living with a chronic illness can have a significant psychological impact on a child and his or her family, and it is essential that this aspect of their care is not overlooked. This book provides a... (more)
Step by Step Help for Children with ADHD: A Self-help Manual for Parents
Raising a child with ADHD can be distressing and exhausting for the whole family. But given the appropriate knowledge, and the right tools, parents can intervene to manage their child's behaviour,... (more)
Divorce and the Special Needs Child: A Guide for Parents
This book takes a clear and comprehensive look at every aspect of the legal divorce process, addressing all of the legal issues that divorcing parents of children with special needs face. The author... (more)
Adopting After Infertility: Messages from Practice, Research and Personal Experience
Around three quarters of people who turn to adoption do so because of infertility and those working in this field need information, guidance and support to assist them in the process of adoption to... (more)
Posttraumatic Syndromes in Childhood and Adolescence: A Handbook of Research and Practice
This book brings together the latest research and practice interventions for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from a group of international contributors with North American and European perspectives.... (more)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Child Trauma and Abuse: A Step-by-Step Approach
The effects of trauma and abuse on children can be long-lasting, acute and damaging. Evidence suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a highly effective form of psychotherapy to help... (more)
Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment: How to Interpret Childrens Needs
The application of assessment frameworks hinges on human qualities and skills which are naturally prone to bias and inconsistency. Making Sense of Child and Family Assessment aims to support workers... (more)
Protecting Children from Violence: Evidence Based Interventions
Providing an evidence based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence.... (more)