Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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)
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy has emerged from the authors' and contributors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world. This model of... (more)
Parent-focused Child Therapy: Attachment, Identification and Reflective Functions
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
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
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
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
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
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)
Relationship Development Intervention with Young Children: Social and Emotional Development Activities for Asperger Syndrome, Autism, PDD and NLD
Friendship, even for the most able, requires hard work, and the odds are heavily stacked against those with autism spectrum conditions. Designed for younger children, typically between the ages of... (more)
Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling either in school or at home. It explains the social and... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Offering a judicious balance of theory and practical discussion, "Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents" focuses on the essential knowledge needed to work therapeutically with... (more)
Baby and Me: DVD
Babies are learning from the moment they are born. Positive interactions between ourselves and our babies set the foundations for building pleasurable relationships. This encourages the development... (more)
Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach
See catalogue number 29105 for the paperback edition. An indispensable clinical resource, this groundbreaking book is the first treatment manual to focus specifically on adolescent bulimia nervosa.... (more)
Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence
Offering a fresh perspective on treatment, this book presents an overarching framework and many specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. The authors shed light on the... (more)
Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say No Way - And Parents Say Way to Go
Fourteen-year-old Eric is plagued by thoughts that germs on his hands could be making his family sick. Kelly, age eight, feels distressed if she can't count her pencils in multiples of four. No one... (more)
Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability: Third Edition (Hardback)
See catalogue number 28887 for the paperback edition. Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability... (more)
Resilient Therapy: Working with Children and Families
Using detailed case material from a range of contexts, this book illustrates how resilient mechanisms work in complex situations, and how resilient therapy works in real-life situations. Whilst much... (more)
Containment and Reciprocity: Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Child Development Research for Work with Children
"Containment and Reciprocity" shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and... (more)
Choosing to Heal: Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children
The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate. Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this... (more)
The War for Children's Minds
Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they should adopt. Political and religious leaders including Blair and Bush... (more)
Child-Centred Attachment Therapy: The CcAT Programme
This book describes the development of the Child-Centred Attachment Therapy (CcAT) model of working with children with attachment difficulties. The authors describe, in a vivid and accessible manner,... (more)
A Playworker's Guide to Understanding Children's Behaviour: Working with the 8-12 Age Group
How do I manage an aggressive child positively when I have twenty other children who need my attention? How can I develop a good relationship with a child I seem to dislike? How do I maintain a... (more)