Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Childhood Victimization: Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People
Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population. Despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying... (more)
Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology
Social cognition refers to the capacity to think about others thoughts, intentions, feelings, attitudes and perspectives and enables us to engage in the activities that humans value most, such as... (more)
Improving Children's Mental Health Through Parent Empowerment: A Guide to Assisting Families
This book is an essential guide for parent advisors and counsellors, to helping parents take charge of their childrens mental health care. The book is divided into four parts for easy reference: Part... (more)
Riding the Wave: Workbook
This workbook is designed to help adolescents cope with panic disorder and agrophobia, with easy to understand explanations and teen friendly forms.
Mastery of Anxiety and Panic for Adolescents: Riding the Wave - Therapist Guide
The treatment described in this Therapist Guide is specifically designed for adolescents with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Panic disorder often first appears in adolescence, making effective... (more)
When Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders: Parent Workbook
If your child suffers from sleep problems, you are aware of the toll it can take on your child and your family. You may hope your child will just grow out of it, but this is not usually the case. You... (more)
Helping Parents with Challenging Children: Positive Family Intervention: Parent Workbook
Having a child with challenging behaviour can be frustrating and affect the entire family. This workbook will help you take a more positive attitude toward your child and carry out effective steps to... (more)
Helping Parents with Challenging Children: Positive Family Intervention: Facilitator Guide
One of the main concerns of parents of children with developmental disabilities such as autism is the management of problem behaviour. Frequent incidents of aggression, self-injury, and tantrums,... (more)
Coping Power: Child Group Program: Facilitator Guide
This program is an evidence-based program for dealing with behavioural problems in pre-adolescent children, concentrating on children who are beginning to show signs of severe aggression amd social... (more)
Coping Power: Parent Group Program: Facilitator Guide
This program is an evidence-based intervention for aggressive behaviour in pre-adolescent children. This program teaches positive strategies for coping with perceived conflict or threat, as well as... (more)
Its Only a False Alarm: Workbook
It's Only a False Alarm: Workbook is written for children and adolescents ages 8 - 17 who are undergoing treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Designed to be used in conjunction with the... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm - Therapist Guide
OCD is characterised by a pattern of rituals (or compulsions) and obsessive thinking. Common obsessions among children and teens include a fear of dirt or germs, a need for symmetry, order, and... (more)
Anxiety: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People
Cognitive behavioural therapy has proven to be an effective treatment for anxiety disorders in children and young people. This book provides an overview of CBT and explores how it can be used to help... (more)
Mental Health Interventions and Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People
This book provides a model which offers guidance on effective and appropriate therapeutic interventions and services for vulnerable children and young people (commonly children who have experienced... (more)
Working with Young Homeless People
Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation. This accessible guide provides information and advice on how to understand the needs of these young people, and... (more)