Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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)
The Lone Twin: Understanding Twin Bereavement and Loss
'There is no doubt a greater awareness now of the significance of twin loss than there was ten years ago. I think that this is largely due to a big increase in articles, radio and television... (more)
Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need: Helping Children to Develop Mindfulness, Spiritual Awareness and Self-Esteem
Art-based activities can develop presilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need offers... (more)
A Child in Pain: What Health Professionals Can Do to Help
Unlike so many of the works on this topic, this book provides specific language that will help children manage the full spectrum of the pain experience, both on a sensory and an emotional level. The... (more)
Navigating Teenage Depression: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
First symptoms of depression often occur during teenage years, and it can be a disturbing and confusing time for families as well as the teenager themselves.
How can you tell whether it is just... (more)
Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective
From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable... (more)
Helping Bereaved Children: A Handbook for Practitioners: Third Edition
This acclaimed work presents a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are given practical strategies for helping preschoolers... (more)
Gifted Lives: What Happens When Gifted Children Grow Up
This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Written by an award-winning psychologist who has meticulously... (more)
The Extremes of the Bell Curve
Discusses evidence from Swedish population data suggesting that children who achieve either exceptionally high, or very low grades at school, are at greater risk of adult mental health. (more)
Core Principles of Assessment and Therapeutic Communication with Children, Parents and Families: Towards the Promotion of Child and Family Wellbeing
Practitioners today are confronted by a bewildering array of therapies as cure alls. This book provides an integrated approach to working with children, parents and families that can be applied by... (more)
Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children
In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material... (more)
A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family After the Death of a Loved One
When children lose someone they love, they lose part of their very identity. Life, as they knew it, will never be quite the same. The world that once felt dependable and safe may suddenly seem a... (more)
Emotion in Memory and Development: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Considerations
The question of how well children recall and can discuss emotional experiences is one with numerous theoretical and applied implications. Theoretically, the role of emotions generally and emtional... (more)
Beginning to Grow: Five Studies
Beginning to Grow: Five Studies describes work with five children from infancy to maturity at age eighteen. The children's growth is traced with regard to and in terms of conflict and ego strength.... (more)
A Clinician's Guide to Normal Cognitive Development in Childhood
This book marries developmental science with clinical practice. It's a great resource for anyone who works with children, including teachers, clinicians, childcare providers, and parents. Children's... (more)
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness: Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's... (more)