Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorders
This clinically wise and pragmatic book presents a systematic approach for treating any form of childhood anxiety using proven exposure-based techniques. What makes this rigorously tested modular... (more)
Searching to be Found: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties
A practical, supportive book for adoptive parents, carers, teachers and other professionals who live and work with families and children whose happiness and behaviours are affected by attention... (more)
Your Teenager: Thinking About Your Child During the Secondary School Years
The Teenager books by Martha Harris, originally published in 1969, take a similar approach to her long-term bestseller Thinking about Infants and Young Children. Rooted vividly in the practicalities... (more)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
This highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multi-problem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury. The... (more)
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind
An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the... (more)
Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse
See catalogue number 26947 for the paperback edition. "Stolen Tomorrows" will encourage women who have been abused to think about, talk about and seek help for what has been their secret shame. It... (more)
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individality
The author of the controversial "The Nurture Assumption" tackles the biggest mystery of psychology: What makes people differ so much in personality and behaviour? The search leads Judith Rich Harris... (more)
The Mindful Brain in Human Development: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-being
'Welcome to a journey into the heart of our lives'. With these words Daniel Siegel - scientist, psychiatrist, educator, and a leader in the field of mental health, draws us into a rich and... (more)
The Confident Child: Raising Children to Believe in Themselves
Raising confident, motivated and caring children is a parent's greatest challenge. Drawing on her extensive research on children and parents, Terri Apter has created a guide based on "emotional... (more)
Working to be Someone: Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children
"Working to be Someone" presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that takes the children's own points of view of their work into account. It aims to highlight and discuss... (more)
Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence - A Reader: Second Edition
This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for... (more)
Living Alongside a Child's Recovery: Therapeutic Parenting with Traumatized Children
The idea of using therapeutic parenting to help with the recovery of traumatized children is the focus in the latest title in the "Delivering Recovery" series, "Living Alongside a Child's Recovery".... (more)
Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem: A Photocopiable Activities Book: Second Edition
"Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem" is packed with fun and effective activities to help children develop and maintain healthy self-esteem. New and updated material has been added including a... (more)
Healing the Inner City Child: Creative Arts Therapies with At-Risk Youth
"Healing the Inner City Child" presents a diverse practical collection of creative arts therapies approaches that meet the ever-increasing mental health needs of inner city children, whose exposure... (more)
Conduct Disorder and Offending Behaviour in Young People: Findings from Research
Offending behaviour in young people is a problem not only for affected neighbours and communities; it is also a serious problem to the young people involved. Behaviour problems and involvement in... (more)
Working with Parents and Infants: A Mind-Body Integration Approach
Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health and illness, and the inseparability of psyche and... (more)
Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications for Mental Health Assessment
Around the world, many immigrant and minority children are immersed in mental health, social welfare, and educational systems that are ill equipped to evaluate and help them. This important volume... (more)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
Cultural Issues in Play Therapy
Helping therapists hone their skills for working with diverse children and families, this unique volume looks at play therapy through a multicultural lens. Experienced practitioners examine how... (more)
Behavior Problems in Preschool Children: Clinical and Developmental Issues
This volume provides a comprehensive clinical-developmental framework for understanding and treating behavior problems in early childhood. Susan B. Campbell offers a highly readable account of the... (more)
Attachment from Infancy to Adulthood: The Major Longitudinal Studies
This volume provides unique and valuable first hand accounts of the most important longitudinal studies of attachment. Presented are a range of research programs that have broadened our understanding... (more)
Thinking Psychologically About Children Who Are Looked After and Adopted: Space for Reflection
This innovative collection makes thinking psychologically about looked after and adopted children accessible and, in doing so, provides an insight into the world of these children. Informed by... (more)
Classroom Tales: Using Storytelling to Build Emotional, Social and Academic Skills Across the Primary Curriculum
Stories and storytelling help children to develop emotional literacy, make sense of their world and appreciate different points of view. Fox Eades shows how storytelling is a crucial element of... (more)
Playing the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Interviews with Children Using Winnicott's Squiggle Technique
This book argues that the squiggle game enables one in most cases to make contact with a child with particular ease. Often, if the child takes up the suggestion, an intense dialogue develops which... (more)
Violence in Children: Understanding and Helping Those Who Harm
This book explores various aspects of violence and the attendant emotional, psychological, biological and social features that may be found to accompany these states in children. It highlights the... (more)
Psychotherapy of Abused and Neglected Children: Second Edition
Now in a revised and updated second edition, this widely used guidebook and text combines theory, research, and practical clinical strategies. Provided is a thoughtful framework for understanding the... (more)
Sexuality in Adolescence: Current Trends
"Sexuality in Adolescence: Current Trends" considers the latest theory and research on adolescent development, focusing on sexuality as a vital aspect of normal, healthy maturation. Biological... (more)