Child and Adolescent Studies Books

Lives Across Time/Growing Up: Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

by Henry H. Massie, Nathan M. Szajnberg

Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. Children traverse continuous or discontinuous courses. This book describes... (more)

Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond

by Patricia J. Bauer

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Chronic Illness in Children and Adolescents

Edited by Ronald T. Brown, Annette U. Rickel

Management of chronic illness in children and adolescents often is a multifaceted challenge that requires the attention and expertise of individuals from a variety of disciplines that include... (more)

Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and Prevention Science

Edited by Daniel Romer, Elaine F. Walker

Divided into 5 parts, this book talks about: biological and social universals in development; characteristics of brain and behaviour in development; and effects of early maltreatment and stress on... (more)

Group Care Practice with Children and Young People Revisited

by Leon C. Fulcher

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Reaching the Hard to Reach: Evidence-based Funding Priorities for Intervention and Research

Edited by Geoffrey Baruch, David Robins

Social inequality and social disadvantage provide an all too fertile soil that sustains the majority of the serious mental health problems suffered by children in our society. The complexity of the... (more)

The Scripts Parents Write and the Roles Babies Play: Importance of Being Baby

by Bertrand G. Cramer

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Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 by C. G. Jung

by C.G. Jung

In the 1930s C.G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his... (more)

Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents

Edited by Kathleen Hushion, Diana Siskind

Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption... (more)

Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around

by Lenore C. Terr

The question, "Why and how does child psychotherapy work?" underlies everything in this book. To answer this fundamental question, Lenore Terr contacted leading child and adolescent psychiatrists... (more)

Adolescent Girls in Crisis Intervention and Hope

by Martha B. Straus

From anorexia to sex to depression and pregnancy, the lives of teen girls are often awash in rage and despair. Martha B. Straus, a seasoned therapist, describes how to reach the children behind these... (more)

Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: Family-Based, Attachment-Focused Therapy

by William N. Friedrich

Prevailing taboos about sex and the misconception that sexually inappropriate touching, language, and other actions by children are always signs of sexual abuse lead families to hide problems.... (more)

The Amazing Infant

by Tiffany Field

For years parents and professionals marveled at the complexity of infants, but it was not until the 21st century, when explosive advancements in neuroscience began taking place, that sophisticated... (more)

Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing

by Peter Levine

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Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial

Edited by Margaret-Ellen Pipe, Yael Orbach

This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings. Leading... (more)

Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer

by Grace H. Christ

Using qualitative analytic methods, this book identifies five developmentally derived age groups that clarify important differences in children's grief and mourning processes, in their understanding... (more)

Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Adapting Psychodynamic Treatment to Contemporary Practice: Second Edition

by Richard Bromfield

This readable guide for therapists and therapists in training lays out the theoretical essence and practical essentials of doing child and adolescent psychotherapy from the referral call to the last... (more)

The Child within: Taking the Young Person's Perspective by Applying Personal Construct Psychology: Second Edition

Edited by Richard W. Butler, David Green

Understanding a child's viewpoint is often considered helpful within child clinical psychology. Personal construct theory offers a practical method that allows children to express their viewpoint... (more)

Personality Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

Edited by Arthur Freeman, Mark A. Reinecke

This work includes topics such as: assessment, treatment, conceptualization, clinical strategies, and family treatment. This valuable resource contains the latest developments in treatment and... (more)

The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents

Edited by Giorgio Nardone, Rita Rocchi

This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents. It is the outcome of the teamwork of 32 researchers... (more)

A Big and a Little One is Gone: Crisis Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy

by Elisabeth Cleve

This is a story from inside the child psychologist's room. Victor, who is two and a half years old, has lost his mother and younger brother in a car accident. He is 'sunny and happy' and does not... (more)

Standing on their Own Feet: You and Your Younger Adolescent

by Judith Trowell

Young children are cute and delightful or are having temper tantrums. Primary school children are eager and enthusiastic; gaining mastery of their world; defiant and difficult at times, but still... (more)

The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families

by Jim Wilson

'This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed... (more)

On Having an Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood

by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed?

This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want... (more)

Parent-focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification and Reflective Functions

Edited by Carol WACHS, Linda Jacobs

Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary modality in solving children's problems. This edited collection,... (more)

Help Him Make You Smile: The Development of Intersubjectivity in the Atypical Child

by Rita S. Eagle

This book focuses on the development of self and intersubjectivity in infants, and the parent-child and family interactions that help facilitate it. A unique, step by step account of how these... (more)

Raising Drug-free Kids: 100 Tips for Parents

by Aletha Solter

This book gives parents tips for keeping children of all ages away from drugs and alcohol. In the USA, where an estimated 25 percent of teenagers use illegal substances on a monthly basis, parents... (more)

Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and

by B.J. Ellis, D.F. Bjorklund

This important volume brings together an array of prominent developmental scientists whose work is explicitly driven by evolutionary concerns. Topics covered include parent-child relationships,... (more)

Separation Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: An Individualized Approach to Assessment and Treatment

by Andrew R. Eisen, Charles E. Schaefer

This unique book presents a research-based approach to understanding the challenges of separation anxiety and helping children, adolescents, and their parents build the skills they need to overcome... (more)

Attachment Theory in Clinical Work with Children: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice

Edited by David Oppenheim, Douglas F. Goldsmith

Attachment research has tremendous potential for helping clinicians understand what happens when parent-child bonds are disrupted, and what can be done to help. Yet there remains a large gap between... (more)