Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Adolescent Identities: A Collection of Readings
"Adolescent Identities" draws the reader into the inner world of the adolescent to examine the process of identity formation through the various lenses of history, anthropology, sociology,... (more)
Art Therapy with Children: From Infancy to Adolescence
XThis passionate and exciting book demonstrates the wide theoretical base of art therapy presenting new areas of clinical practice. New to the literature is innovative work with mothers and babies, a... (more)
Family Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
This book describes a blend of insight-oriented, behavioral, and strategic family therapy, which the author has developed over thirty-four years of dealing with suicidal adolescents. It aims not to... (more)
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on... (more)
Child Abuse and Stress Disorders
This book examines major stressful events along with several stress disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder. It also contains chapters that deal with various types of child abuse and... (more)
Behavior Therapy with Children
This consummately well-organized survey brings together the latest and most meaningful writings in behavior therapy with children. Dealing with a variety of childhood behavior problems, it includes... (more)
Developmental Disorders of Language, Learning and Cognition
This important new text is a comprehensive survey of current thinking and research on a wide range of developmental disorders. The book also highlights key research on normal and typical development.... (more)
Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development
This Handbook presents a comprehensive summary of research into child development from age two to seven. Comprising thirty contributions from both established scholars and emerging leaders in the... (more)
Raising Kids in the 21st Century: lth for Children The Science of Psychological Health for Children
An easy-to-read guide on raising emotionally healthy children that is based on sound psychological research. The book's format makes it a good choice for students, parents, or practitioners. Key... (more)
Children and Play
Play is an important part of children's development, and of great interest to professionals and the wider public. There are continuing debates about the role of play in development, especially in... (more)
Children and Bullying: How Parents and Educators Can Reduce Bullying at School
Hardly a day goes by without reports of incidents of school bullying or recommendations for quick fixes to the problem. Parents and educators are often left trying to solve a difficult problem... (more)
Interviewing Children About Sexual Abuse: Controversies and Best Practice
Interviewing children who may been sexually abused is a daunting task fraught with far-reaching consequences for the children, families, institutions, and professionals involved. With no room for... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Social Phobia in Adolescents: Stand Up, Speak Out: Therapist Guide
Shyness and social anxiety are common emotions experienced by children and teenagers. When intense, they often result in the avoidance of social situations and can significantly impair a child's... (more)
Sextuplets: Study of a Sibling Group
'This unique and fascinating book carefully traces aspects of the personality of sextuplets which persist from birth onwards. The way in which the personal characteristics of both the mother and her... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Work of Hansi Kennedy: From War Nurseries to the Anna Freud Centre (1940-1993)
This book presents a selection of the works of Hansi Kennedy, pre-eminent child psychoanalyst, whose career began with Anna Freud in the Hampstead War Nurseries and continued at the Hampstead Child... (more)