Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Family Matters: The Importance of Mattering to Family in Adolescence
In this book, Gregory Elliott explores the effects of mattering to ones family on adolescent behavior. He presents evidence that those who feel that they matter to their families are much less likely... (more)
Supervision Can Be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors
This book focuses on the dynamic nature of the clinical supervisory relationship when the supervisee is a mental health professional working with children. The contributors focus on the unique issues... (more)
Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
An important book that shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. It ought to be read by every sensible individual interested in regaining a sane viewpoint that... (more)
Living with Alcoholism and Drug Addiction: Teen's Guides
This is an essential guide for teens struggling with alcoholism and addiction. In 2006, nearly 11 million young people from the ages of 12 to 20 reported using alcohol in the past month, and nearly... (more)
Safeguarding Children Living with Trauma and Family Violence: Evidence-Based Assessment, Analysis, and Planning Intervention
Offering a systematic approach to evidence-based assessment and planning for children living with trauma and family violence, this practical book shows how to assess and analyse the needs of the... (more)
Play as Therapy: Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions
While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches often remain... (more)
Helping Children with Complex Needs Bounce Back: Resilient Therapy for Parents and Professionals
Bringing up a special child can leave parents feeling deskilled, disarmed and worn down. A resilient child has the ability to cope with challenging situations, and the capacity to bounce back from... (more)
Good Practice in Safeguarding Children: Working Effectively in Child Protection
This book considers how front-line professionals can keep the best interests of the child at the heart of their work when statutory guidance, the way agencies are integrated and the delivery of... (more)
Fostering a Child's Recovery: Family Placement for Traumatized Children
The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported... (more)
Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum: What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-teen and Teenage Years
Growing up isn't easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly confusing for girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). This book covers all the concerns commonly... (more)
Alphabet Kids - from ADD to Zellweger Syndrome: A Guide to Developmental, Neurobiological and Psychological Disorders for Parents and Professionals
From ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to ZS (Zellweger Syndrome) - there seems to be an alphabet disorder for almost every behavior, from those caused by serious, rare genetic diseases to more common... (more)
Assessing Change in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Children and Adolescents: Today's Challenge
This book draws together work from across Europe by leading clinical researchers who have been looking into the effectiveness of psychoanalytic interventions. They are mostly time limited, brief,... (more)
The 5 to 10 Year-Old Child
The fifth birthday represents an important landmark in a child's development. He is now ready to start full-time primary school, and we no longer speak of a baby or a little child; instead, we refer... (more)
Researching Children's Experiences
This accessible book presents approaches to planning, carrying out, and analyzing research projects with children and youth from a social constructivist perspective. Rich, contextualized examples... (more)
Communicative Musicality: Exploring the Basis of Human Companionship
This book explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. The theory of communicative musicality was developed from groundbreaking studies showing how in mother/infant communication there... (more)
Psychotherapy with Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Fostering Autonomy Through Attachment
Adolescent girls and young women in therapy - even those who genuinely desire change - often are highly ambivalent and difficult to engage. This book provides fresh insights and powerful clinical... (more)
Keeping the Baby in Mind: Infant Mental Health in Practice
Builds on the expanding evidence pointing to the crucial importance of parents in facilitating their baby's development, and brings together expert contributors to examine a range of innovative... (more)
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterised by a person's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and their related compulsions. It affects an estimated one percent of teenagers and has... (more)
Evocative Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Informed by an amalgamation of psychoanalytic and attachment theories, the techniques offered in this book can be employed alongside a variety of therapeutic modalities, such as evidenced-based... (more)
Depression: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People
In recent years there has been an increase in research into childhood depression, and it is now recognised that depression can severely impair young people in many aspects of their life, school, peer... (more)
Child Psychotherapy and Research: New Approaches, Emerging Findings
Child Psychotherapy and Research brings together some of the most exciting and innovative research activity taking place within psychoanalytic child psychotherapy today. Drawing on the expertise of... (more)
Educating Children with Complex Conditions: Understanding Overlapping and Co-existing Developmental Disorders
There are growing numbers of children displaying the symptoms of more than one condition or disorder, and this has led to those involved in education needing to understand which conditions commonly... (more)
Twins in the World: The Legends They Inspire and the Lives They Lead
In this compelling narrative, Alessandra Piontelli explores the different roles that twins play in societies around the world. In her travels throughout Africa, Asia, South America, and the Pacific... (more)
The Newborn as a Person: Enabling Healthy Infant Development Worldwide
Advances in the fields of psychology and psychiatry have bolstered the perspective that infants are not the passive recipients of sensory stimulation as it was once thought. Built on T. Berry... (more)
Blending Play Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Evidence-based and Other Effective Treatments and Techniques
This comprehensive volume is written by leaders in the field and collects classic and emerging evidence-based and cognitive behavioral therapy treatments therapists can use when working with children... (more)
The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
Returning to the themes of her classic "Drama of the Gifted Child", the famed psychoanalyst Alice Miller examines the consequences of cruelty to children and offers ways we can heal our early psychic... (more)
Hidden Twins: What Adult Opposite Sex Twins Have to Teach Us
'This pioneering book offers wonderful insight into the experience of opposite sex twins in adulthood. It is a very welcome addition to the literature and warmly recommended to all who know or work... (more)
The Nursery Age Child
This book aims to facilitate the understandings of nursery age children, that is, children around three, four and five years, and their parents. Children of these ages are particularly fascinating.... (more)
Working with Adolescents and Young Adults: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach: Second Edition
Draws together traditional and recent psychoanalytic theory and illustrates its application to the study of practical therapeutic work with young people through vivid case material. Contemporary... (more)