Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Helping Children and Young People Who Self-Harm: An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals
Every year over 25,000 young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based... (more)
Childhood Disorders: Second Edition
In this revised edition Philip C. Kendall and Jonathan S. Comer present current information about the full range of psychological disorders that occur in childhood, and discuss the major models that... (more)
Adolescence, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing A Threat of Degeneration
Why does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist? This book outlines a critical view of "teenage pregnancy" and abortion, arguing that the... (more)
Safeguarding Children from Emotional Maltreatment: What Works
Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more... (more)
A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with Attachment Difficulties
This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties. It explains what attachment is, what different... (more)
Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy: Methods and Techniques for Clincians, Educators and Students
When guided effectively, the relationship between adolescents and music can offer powerful opportunities for expression and release. This book provides music therapists with the complete 'how to' of... (more)
Safeguarding Children in Primary Health Care
Safeguarding children from harm has, until recently, been driven primarily by social work practitioners. With current shifts in child care and protection practice and policy, combined with an... (more)
The ADHD Toolkit
Are you struggling with students who have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? There is likely to be at least one student in any mainstream class with ADHD, an evolving concept that... (more)
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life
For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has... (more)
Infant Losses; Adult Searches: A Neural and Developmental Perspective on Psychopathology and Sexual Offending
An innovative view of the development of psychopathology and sexual offending. In an exciting synthesis of neuroscience, developmental, and social psychology with forensic and criminal literature, it... (more)
The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence
Recent research confirms that the brain undergoes major development during adolescence. This book reviews the neuroscience of the adolescent brain and how this knowledge is revolutionising our... (more)
From Rage to Courage: Answers to Readers' Letters
Alice Miller has received countless letters from readers all over the world. From Rage to Courage assembles the most recent, illuminating the issues and consequences of childhood abuse. Whether... (more)
How to Talk to Families About Child and Adolescent Mental Illness
When a young person suffers from an anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, the entire family supporting that young person suffers, too.
This is a practical and accessible... (more)
Play Therapy with Traumatized Children
Introduces a practical model of play therapy for traumatized children. Some of the most rewarding work a therapist can do is help a child recover from a traumatic event. But where to begin? A growing... (more)
ADHD - Living Without Brakes
This concise and highly accessible book contains everything that parents and busy professionals need to know about ADHD. The author describes the spectrum of ADHD, the co-occurring symptoms, and... (more)
Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents
Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities - all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework - this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their intervention... (more)
The Adolescent in Family Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Relationships: Second Edition
Offers a comprehensive framework for treating adolescent problems in the family context. "This valuable second edition is an essential text for anyone working with adolescents. Students in family... (more)
Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
A guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and child trauma. This book covers various methods and measures for assessing trauma, including case examples to illustrate the integration of... (more)
The Child's World: The Comprehensive Guide to Assessing Children in Need: Second Edition
This expanded and updated second edition of The Child's World is the accessible and comprehensive multidisciplinary guide to assessing children in need and their families. The book not only provides... (more)
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Death: What Children Need to Know
Death is never an easy subject for discussion and adults often struggle to find the right words when talking about it with children. This book explores children's thoughts and feelings on the subject... (more)
Children and Adolescents in Trauma: Creative Therapeutic Approaches
Presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential childrens homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools. The contributors describe a wide range of... (more)
Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Clinical Perspective
Nonverbal learning disabilities broadly affect a childs behaviour, thoughts and feelings. This book presents descriptive, social and interpersonal perspectives on these brain-based disorders. It... (more)
Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children
This book offers a critical and evidence-based review of current and future child protection policy and practice. It provides evidence-based perspective with an up-to-date overview of policy and... (more)
Child Protection, Domestic Violence and Parental Substance Misuse: Family Experiences and Effective Practice
This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of... (more)
Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability: Third Edition
New in paperback. Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability and its effects on family life. The... (more)
Preventing Child Maltreatment
Many child abuse prevention programs have targeted factors within the family, such as parenting skills. This book describes the next wave of prevention: the promotion of safer, healthier childrearing... (more)
Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families Through Effective Interventions: International Evidence for Practice
Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of intense scrutiny and debate, and there is a clear need to establish a knowledge of which services work well. This volume provides a... (more)
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic Approaches
This new edition of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy reflects the many changes in the profession. It includes: additional chapters on neuroscience, work with looked after children... (more)
Self-Harm in Young People: A Therapeutic Assessment Method
Self-harm is a distressing and all too common presentation to emergency departments, and yet there is no clear understanding of what it represents, and success rates of interventions to prevent... (more)