Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Surviving Girlhood: Building Positive Relationships, Attitudes and Self-esteem to Prevent Teenage Girl Bullying
Teenage girls can be mean. Often stemming from poor self-awareness, self-esteem and lack of relationship skills, complex friendship dynamics can be difficult to unravel and bullying can be hard to... (more)
Counseling Children and Adolescents in Schools
A text and workbook designed to help aspiring school practitioners (school psychologists, school counsellors, and school social workers) gain the necessary theoretical background and skill set to... (more)
Deciding Children's Futures: An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children's Welfare in the Family Court
Deciding Children's Futures addresses the thorny task of how to assess parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when... (more)
Problem Solving in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Skills-Based Collaborative Approach
This highly accessible book presents clear steps for helping children and adolescents to develop and test out new solutions to specific social, emotional, or behavioral challenges. The author... (more)
Psychotherapy for Children with Bipolar and Depressive Disorders
Packed with ready-to-use clinical tools, this book presents the first evidence-based psychosocial treatment for school-age children with bipolar disorder or depression. Leading clinician/researcher... (more)
Recognizing and Helping the Neglected Child: Evidence-based Practice for Assessment and Intervention
Neglect is the most common form of child abuse, but recognizing the signs, assessing the familys and the child's needs, and undertaking intervention can be difficult and complicated. This book, based... (more)
Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn? Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition,... (more)
Play Therapy with Adolescents
Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play... (more)
Therapy with Children: Children's Rights, Confidentiality and the Law: Second Edition
Therapy with Children is a vital resource for any practitioner navigating the legal minefield of working with children and young people. Prioritising the needs of the child as the client, the authors... (more)
Promoting Psychological Well-being in Children with Acute and Chronic Illness
Living with a chronic illness can have a significant psychological impact on a child and his or her family, and it is essential that this aspect of their care is not overlooked. This book provides a... (more)
The Lone Twin: Understanding Twin Bereavement and Loss
'There is no doubt a greater awareness now of the significance of twin loss than there was ten years ago. I think that this is largely due to a big increase in articles, radio and television... (more)
Helping Children and Young People Who Self-Harm: An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals
Every year over 25,000 young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based... (more)
Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy: Methods and Techniques for Clincians, Educators and Students
When guided effectively, the relationship between adolescents and music can offer powerful opportunities for expression and release. This book provides music therapists with the complete 'how to' of... (more)
Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children
This book offers a critical and evidence-based review of current and future child protection policy and practice. It provides evidence-based perspective with an up-to-date overview of policy and... (more)
Preventing Child Maltreatment
Many child abuse prevention programs have targeted factors within the family, such as parenting skills. This book describes the next wave of prevention: the promotion of safer, healthier childrearing... (more)
Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families Through Effective Interventions: International Evidence for Practice
Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of intense scrutiny and debate, and there is a clear need to establish a knowledge of which services work well. This volume provides a... (more)
Self-Harm in Young People: A Therapeutic Assessment Method
Self-harm is a distressing and all too common presentation to emergency departments, and yet there is no clear understanding of what it represents, and success rates of interventions to prevent... (more)
First Steps in Intervention with Your Child with Autism: Frameworks for Communication
One of the major difficulties for children with autism is in developing social empathy in the same way as other children. The earlier this problem is addressed, the more effectively these skills can... (more)
Depression: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People
In recent years there has been an increase in research into childhood depression, and it is now recognised that depression can severely impair young people in many aspects of their life, school, peer... (more)
Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Recent advances in evedence-based treatment of pediatric bipolar disorder are comprehensively reviewed in this authoritative volume. The prominent editors and contributors examine the current status... (more)
Helping Parents with Challenging Children: Positive Family Intervention: Parent Workbook
Having a child with challenging behaviour can be frustrating and affect the entire family. This workbook will help you take a more positive attitude toward your child and carry out effective steps to... (more)
Its Only a False Alarm: Workbook
It's Only a False Alarm: Workbook is written for children and adolescents ages 8 - 17 who are undergoing treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Designed to be used in conjunction with the... (more)
Working with Young Homeless People
Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation. This accessible guide provides information and advice on how to understand the needs of these young people, and... (more)
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Adoption: What Children Need to Know
Why was I abandoned? Why did my parents adopt me? What if I want to meet my biological parents? Children who find out they are adopted have many questions that are difficult for a parent to answer.... (more)
Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens
Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years in a locked psychiatric ward. They're not just failing in school, not just using drugs. They are out of control - violent or... (more)
Let Kids be Kids: Rescuing Childhood
Asserts that childhood is much more than the years between infancy and adolescence: it is an essential time for the experiences that create happy and well-adjusted adults. In "Let Kids Be Kids", Mary... (more)
Grief in Young Children: A Handbook for Adults
It is a common misconception that preschool children are not capable of experiencing grief in the same way that older children do. This book challenges this assumption, demonstrating that although... (more)
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, starving youngsters raised in cages, toddlers who witnessed their parents' murders, teenagers... (more)
Adolescence and Delinquency: An Object-relations Theory Approach
This book applies modern object-relations theory to a population for which the treatment du jour is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice,... (more)
Lives Across Time/Growing Up: Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People
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)