Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Mental Health in Schools: A Guide to Pastoral and Curriculum Provision
Mental Health is now a mandatory component of the PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) curriculum. "Mental Health in Schools" is a practical guide for teachers, explaining the difference... (more)
Touchpoints: Birth to Three: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development: Second Revised Edition
Intended for anxious parents of babies and small children. This book introduces medical information, guidance for the new stresses on families and fears of children, and a fresh focus on the role of... (more)
Working with Children and Adolescents: An Evidence-based Approach to Risk and Resilience
In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on improving our understanding of factors that contribute to the development of child and adolescent mental health problems. This is important in... (more)
Raising Kids with Character: Developing Trust and Personal Intergrity in Children
"Raising Kids with Character" shows parents, clinicians, and policy-makers how the love relationship between parents and children is the workshop of the child's maturing personality, connecting... (more)
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon: 25th Anniversary Edition
Looks at the Internet, classroom culture, school violence, movies, television and a growing societal incivility to show parents and teachers where hurrying occurs and why. This book offers parents... (more)
Evocative Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Offers child therapy techniques that are informed by an integration of psychoanalytic and attachment theories and can be integrated into a variety of therapy methods. Crenshaw offers new child... (more)
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children: Second Edition
Suitable for social workers, therapists, and parents, this work is a composite case study of the developmental course of one child following years of abuse and neglect. It focuses on both the... (more)
Mind Race: A First-Hand Account of One Teenager's Experience With Bipolar Disorder
New to the "Adolescent Mental Health Initiative" series are books written specifically for teens and adolescents. Each book addresses some of the major mental health issues facing young people today:... (more)
Attachment Disorders: Treatment Strategies for Traumatized Children
"Attachment Disorders Treatment Strategies for Traumatized Children" is an essential resource for therapists, parents, social workers, DCS workers, foster parents, educators, and child care providers... (more)
Coping with an Anxious or Depressed Child: A Guide for Parents and Carers
Does your child suffer from anxiety or depression? Are you at a loss as to what to do about it? This navigational tool, written by eminent clinical psychologist Sam Cartwright-Hatton, gives guidance... (more)
Still Here with Me: Teenagers and Children on Losing a Parent
This book is a moving and thoughtful anthology of the experiences of thirty children and teenagers who have lost a parent. In their own words, children and young people of a variety of ages talk... (more)
Self-esteem Games for Children
In this practical handbook, self-esteem expert Deborah Plummer offers a wealth of familiar and easy-to-learn games carefully chosen to build and maintain self-esteem in children aged 5-11. The... (more)
Memories After Abortion
Aims to explain and increase the understanding of the abortion problem as well as encourage more discussion and reflection on this complex issue. This book also contains stories told by young people... (more)
Fabricated or Induced Illness in a Child by a Carer: A Reader
This groundbreaking book is a major contribution to ongoing development which will safeguard and promote the welfare of the children who have illness fabricated or induced (FII), previously known as... (more)
Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Mental Health 1
Suitable for the busy CAMHS practitioner and trainee whatever their background, training and persuasion. This book is especially useful for those starting a career in the field and for those... (more)
Acting Antics: A Theatrical Approach to Teaching Social Understanding to Kids and Teens with Asperger Syndrome
This fun and inspiring step-by-step program provides the full set of tools for developing social understanding in children with Asperger Syndrome (AS) through drama. Cindy B. Schneider explains how... (more)
Handbook of Adolescent Development
What specifically characterises adolescents? What does it mean to be young at the beginning of the twenty-first century? "Handbook of Adolescent Development" fills a gap in the literature on... (more)