Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish examine the inevitable stresses faced by parents of teenagers. Through role play and discussion, they show how to keep communication open with rebellious offspring, how... (more)
You and Your Mid-Adolescent
This is a book which seeks help those going through the process of mid-adolescence - either from the point of view of the adolescent or their families - it attends to the serious strains that may... (more)
The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a... (more)
Understanding and Supporting Children with ADHD: Strategies for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals
Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be hard to include in a mainstream classroom, and managing their behaviour is often a challenge. Drawing directly from real classroom... (more)
The Family and Individual Development
The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. In these... (more)
The Child's Journey Through Care: Placement Stability, Care Planning, and Achieving Permanency
This book focuses on children's journeys through the care system, from voluntary admission into care, through complicated and often long court proceedings, in pursuit of Care or Freeing Orders.... (more)
Early Childhood: A Guide for Students - Second Edition
Designed for the needs of the foundation degree and early childhood studies student, this easy-to-use text gives comprehensive coverage of all aspects of your early childhood course. Written by... (more)
Engaging Children in Family Therapy: Creative Approaches to Integrating Theory and Research in Clinical Practice
Counseling a child in the context of a family therapy session is a specific skill that has not received the attention that it deserves. This book, intended for both novice and experienced counselors... (more)
Working with Children: Assessment, Intervention and Representation
Written for professionals working with children and young people who require support, assessment or intervention at home or in school, this book explores everything from the legislative background... (more)
The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner's Handbook
This book highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that appeal to practicing clinicians. Rather than a comprehensive handbook of various tests and measures, "The Clinical Assessment... (more)
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
"Prologue to Violence" reveals what happens to those who survive horrific childhoods, only to commit terrifying crimes of their own. Interning on a hospital prison ward, Abby Stein listened to... (more)
Working with Anger and Young People
From attachment anxieties and feelings of powerlessness, to frustration at difficult family relations, this book considers the common reasons for young people's anger during this difficult stage of... (more)