Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Overcoming Loss: Activities and Stories to Help Transform Children's Grief and Loss
"Overcoming Loss" is a photocopiable resource that addresses childrens feeling of loss, which can arise from changing communities, schools, moving house, divorce or the death of a parent or... (more)
Challenging the Gifted Child: An Open Approach to Working with Advanced Young Readers
Gifted children are quick on the uptake, can be frustrated by repetition and easily become impatient when unchallenged. "Challenging the Gifted Child" outlines a tried and tested approach for... (more)
Making Sense of Children's Thinking and Behavior: A Step by Step Tool for Understanding Children Diagnosed with NLD, Aspergers, HFA, PDD-NOS, and Other Neurological Differences
Offers parents and professionals a tool for understanding children with neurological differences. These children have an atypical view of the world, unique to their particular disability, which can... (more)
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Divorce: What Children Need to Know
Is it my fault that my parents are getting divorced? Do I have to choose between my mum and my dad? Is it normal to feel angry with my parents? When faced with their parents' divorce, children have... (more)
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Adoption: What Children Need to Know
Why was I abandoned? Why did my parents adopt me? What if I want to meet my biological parents? Children who find out they are adopted have many questions that are difficult for a parent to answer.... (more)
Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-esteem
We use the word all the time, but what exactly is 'self-esteem', and how do young people develop it? "Feeling Like Crap" explores how a young person's self is constructed, and what might help that... (more)
Music Therapy with Children and Their Families
In the past, music therapy work with children typically took place in special schools without the family being present. More recently, music therapy has become a widespread practice, and this book... (more)
Children with Mental Disorder and the Law: A Guide to Law and Practice
Children and young people with complex mental health needs are increasingly being cared for within specialist mental health care settings, either in the community or in in-patient facilities. With... (more)
Breaking Free from OCD: A CBT Guide for Young People and Their Families
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a potentially life long debilitating disorder, which often emerges during teenage years and affects as many as 1 in 50 people.Young people living with OCD... (more)
Listening to Children: A Practitioner's Guide
"Listening to children" is one of those feel-good phrases that always features in childcare literature as if it were self-evidently a good thing. Often however, there is a lack of critical attention... (more)
Child Anxiety Theory and Treatment: A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion
Despite the negative impact of anxiety in children, theories and research have lagged behind their adult counterparts. This special issue arose from an Economic and Social Research Council funded... (more)
Child-Friendly Therapy: Biopsychosocial Innovations for Children and Families
Finding a therapy that fits children - one that cuts through their state of overstimulation and aversion to traditional language-based methods - is not easy. Now in paperback, this treasure trove of... (more)
Children in Genocide: Extreme Traumatization and Affect Regulation
'This book, containing untold suffering by children caught in the midst of extreme social violence, gives voice to their unthinkable, unspeakable experience and makes this into a telling... (more)
Bipolar Kids: Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm
From a leading child psychiatrist, here is a comprehensive parents'paperback guide to understanding - and managing - paediatric bipolar disorder. Once considered an adult illness, bipolar disorder... (more)
Therapeutic Engagement of Children and Adolescents: Play, Symbol, Drawing, and Storytelling Strategies
This book addresses the challenges faced when children who refuse to talk, children who lack psychological mindedness, teens who experience a strong aversion to the influence of any adult, and... (more)
Play in Childhood
'[This] is a seminal book that continues to exert a strong influence on how play is viewed today. Play is described by Lowenfeld as an essential function of childhood basically concerned with the... (more)
Childhood Mental Health Disorders
"Childhood Mental Health Disorders" is a comprehensive report, based on a thorough review of the literature, on the current effective use, sequencing, comparative risks/benefits, and integration of... (more)
Shattered Lives: Children Who Live with Courage and Dignity
Bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes. Chapters take the form of letters to a child capturing their... (more)
Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture
This works offers a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society today, looking at how and why diagnoses have increased in recent years. It is the first book to offer such... (more)
Helping Students Overcome Depression and Anxiety: A Practical Guide: Second Edition
Now in a revised and expanded second edition, this popular guide provides expert information and clear-cut strategies for assessing and treating internalizing problems in school settings. More than... (more)
Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties
Provides a unique blend of theory, research, and practice that offers clinicians an overarching framework for the concept of executive functions (EFs) in educational settings. The conceptual model of... (more)
Social Work with Young People
This comprehensive textbook provides an engaging and accessible guide to working with young people in a range of social work settings. It places clear emphasis on the development of key skills, but... (more)
Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens
Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years in a locked psychiatric ward. They're not just failing in school, not just using drugs. They are out of control - violent or... (more)
Emotion-Regulating Play Therapy with ADHD Children: Staying with Playing
Drawing upon contemporary psychoanalytic thought, attachment theory, and the literature on children's emotional development, this book not only offers a novel conceptualization of ADHD but also a... (more)
The V-Spot: Healing the Vulnerable Spot from Emotional Abuse
Everyone knows what the "G-spot" is, of course. It is a woman's most sensitive and vulnerable physical area. Although men do not have a G-spot per se, both men and women have what Joan Lachkar calls... (more)
Harry the Hypno-potamus: More Metaphorical Tales for Children: Volume 2
This second book of metaphors for children will entertain and delight while the therapeutic message, cleverly embedded in the story, slips into the unconscious mind of the child. The tales enhance... (more)
Big Steps for Little People: Parenting Your Adopted Child
A mother of two adopted children, Celia Foster has written "Big Steps for Little People" as a personal 'insider's guide' to parenting adopted children. Drawing on the hard-won wisdom gained in her... (more)
Anger Management Games for Children
This practical handbook helps adults to understand, manage and reflect constructively on children's anger. Featuring a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games, it is designed to foster successful... (more)
Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children
This biography provides a critical account of the life and work of Susan Isaacs (1885-1948). This educationist, a pioneer of child-centred education in Britain was also an early and historically... (more)
Siblings in Development: A Psychoanalytic View
Siblings play an integral and essential part in our psychic development. Traditionally in psychoanalytic thinking, sibling relationships are regarded as secondary in developmental importance to the... (more)