Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Relational Approach
This book presents a research-based framework for understanding and treating children and adolescents with personality disorders. While these youngsters are notably challenging to engage, often... (more)
The Emotionally Abused and Neglected Child: Identification, Assessment and Intervention - A Practice Handbook: Second Edition
Emotional abuse and neglect are at the core of all types of child maltreatment, and have the most harmful effects on the physical and psychological development and well-being of children. Yet they... (more)
Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Recent advances in evedence-based treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder are comprehensively reviewed in this authoritative volume. The prominent editors and contributors examine the current status... (more)
Treating Traumatized Children: Risk, Resilience and Recovery
While recent years have seen a vast increase in the literature on adult trauma, interest in childhood trauma has only recently started to gain momentum, encouraging new research and evidence-based... (more)
Beyond Evidence-Based Psychotherapy: Fostering the Eight Sources of Change in Child and Adolescent Treatment
Teaches students through a common factors point-of-view, combining research, case studies, multiple treatment orientations, and a perspective that describes the personal growth of a clinician's... (more)
What Works for Bipolar Kids: Help and Hope for Parents
Parents of children with bipolar disorder shouldn't have to settle for a trial-and-error approach to their child's well-being - they deserve immediate access to solidly researched and effective... (more)
Moving On After Childhood Sexual Abuse: Understanding the Effects and Preparing for Therapy
This self-help guide allows those who have experienced childhood sexual abuse to consider the impact that it has had on their adult lives from a new perspective, helping them to understand the... (more)
Childhood Re-Imagined: Images and Narratives of Development in Analytical Psychology
What can Jungian psychology contribute to understanding children and childhood? This book considers Carl Jung's psychological approach to childhood and argues that his symbolic view deserves a place... (more)
What Works with Children, Adolescents and Adults? A Review of Research on the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Provides an up-to-date review of research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy and psychological interventions with children, adolescents, adults, people in later life, and people with intellectual... (more)
Early Development and its Disturbances: Clinical, Conceptual and Empirical Research on ADHD and other Psychopathologies and its Epistemological Reflections
In this volume internationally well known experts discuss whether psychoanalysis - with its rich mix of clinical experiences and conceptualizations of early development and symptoms - has something... (more)
Therapy with Children: An Existential Perspective
This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children. Existential ideas and concepts are a rapidly growing influence on the... (more)
Technique in Child and Adolescent Analysis
These are the edited papers from a conference held in 2008 on the topic of problems with child and adolescent analysis. The contributors come from widely differing theoretical backgrounds and use a... (more)
Work With Young People: Theory and Policy for Practice
This authoritative text is a must-read for anyone working - or training to work - with young people. It considers how theory, policy and practice intersect and influence one another in today's... (more)
Doing Anger Differently: Helping Adolescent Boys
Young, non-verbal and aggressive adolescent boys often feel constricted within their family environment, swinging between explosive outbursts and sullen monosyllabic exchanges. Such exchanges are the... (more)
When Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders: Therapist Guide
Many children experience sleep problems and their parents often seek help for what can be a nightly disruption to the entire family. Difficulty getting a good nights sleep can also impact a childs... (more)