Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Play Therapy with Abused Children: Second Edition
This second edition of Ann Cattanach's highly commended book explores the uses of play therapy with abused children as a way of helping them to heal their distress and make sense of their experiences... (more)
Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children Who are Fostered or Adopted
Combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and practical guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after children with insecure... (more)
Narrative Approaches in Play with Children
Narrative play is a way of communicating with children using imaginative stories and narratives to share and make sense of life events. This book describes using narrative play therapeutically with... (more)
Help Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track: What Parents and Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems. The book... (more)
Grief in Young Children: A Handbook for Adults
It is a common misconception that preschool children are not capable of experiencing grief in the same way that older children do. This book challenges this assumption, demonstrating that although... (more)
Grief in Children: A Handbook for Adults: Second Edition
This fully updated second edition of explains childrens understanding of death at different ages and gives a detailed outline of exactly how the adults around them can best help them cope. Whether a... (more)
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families: Building Secure New Lives
Written in consultation with experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives guidance on making evidence-based assessments and... (more)
The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In this book for young people who have been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Jared Kant discusses his own experiences with the illness, and the disruption and distress that it... (more)
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and their Families
See catalogue number 27036 for the paperback edition. Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this... (more)
What You Must Think of Me: A Firsthand Account of One Teenagers Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder
We've all felt occasional pangs of shyness and self-consciousness, but for those suffering from social anxiety disorder, the fear of being scrutinized and criticized can reach disabling proportions.... (more)
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and... (more)
Child Anxiety Disorders: A Family-Based Treatment Manual for Practitioners
Presenting a clinically proven treatment protocol based on a collaborative, family-based approach, this book incorporates family therapy strategies and CBT techniques in a session-by-session format... (more)
The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective
Presenting a wide range of practical interventions (including art therapy, video therapy, and play therapy), Carole Gammer provides a comprehensive set of tools to use with children who are part of a... (more)
Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos
A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective... (more)
Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development
Humans take longer to reach maturity than most other species on earth. We are the Peter Pans of the Animal Kingdom. In this engaging and insightful look at the nature of childhood, developmental... (more)
The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education
Forced learning, or 'hot-housing', of infants has become increasingly popular in recent years - but does it work? The plasticity of the adolescent and adult brain is becoming gradually acknowledged... (more)
Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals
This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples... (more)
Patchwork: Children, Trauma and Therapy
A pioneering exploration of the creation of resilience in infants, children and their families living in modern Israel. The chapters cover topics such as children's adaptation to Kibbutz life and... (more)
Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins
A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. "Indivisible by... (more)
Understanding Motor Skills in Children with Dyspraxia, ADHD, Autism, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to Improving Coordination
Children with learning disabilities often have coordination problems that make everyday activities such as mealtimes, dressing, playing sports, and learning to write challenging. This accessible... (more)
Understanding Looked After Children: An Introduction to Psychology for Foster Care
An accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children. The authors provide foster carers... (more)
Identity Development: Adolescence Through Adulthood: Second Edition
The Second Edition of "Identity Development: Adolescence Through Adulthood" presents an overview of the five general theoretical orientations to the question of what constitutes identity, as well as... (more)
Social Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children
This illuminating book offers a comprehensive overview of what is known about the resettlement of young asylum-seekers, answering social work practitioners' need for a fuller understanding of this... (more)
The Child's Conception of the World: A 20th-Century Classic of Child Psychology
This work explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. A milestone of child psychology, "The Child's Conception of the World" explores the ways in... (more)
The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children
In modern childhood free, unstructured play time is being replaced more and more by academics, lessons, competitive sports and passive entertainment. While parents may worry that their children will... (more)
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, starving youngsters raised in cages, toddlers who witnessed their parents' murders, teenagers... (more)
Adolescence and Delinquency: An Object-relations Theory Approach
This book applies modern object-relations theory to a population for which the treatment du jour is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice,... (more)
Early Experience, the Brain, and Consciousness: An Historical and Interdisciplinary Synthesis
This new book examines the interrelationship between neuroscience and developmental science to help us understand how children differ in their capacity to benefit from their early motor and cognitive... (more)