Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Extending Thought in Young Children: A Parent-Teacher Partnership
In this fully revised version of Chris Athey's classic text, the author builds on her original research with new illustrations of 'continuity' in children's thinking from early to primary education.... (more)
Understanding Your Young Child with Special Needs
Understanding Your Young Child with special needs" explores the developmental impact of disability on normal stages of child development, and examines the complex nature of the emotional bonds... (more)
Understanding 4-5-Year-Olds
Understanding 4-5-year-olds gives a thoughtful overview of the challenges that children face as they gradually move away from a strong attachment to their families and turn towards the wider world of... (more)
Signs of Autism in Infants: Recognition and Early Intervention
As a group, babies later diagnosed as autistic are found to have more complications during gestation and delivery than their normal siblings and others. In addition to all these complications,... (more)
The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Worlds: Vol. 1 Childhood
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents,... (more)
Talking About Domestic Abuse: A Photo Activity Workbook to Develop Communication Between Mothers and Young People
Talking About Domestic Abuse is an activity pack for children of 9 years and above and adolescents where families have experienced domestic abuse, to help and encourage them to open up to their... (more)
A Question of Technique: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
A Question of Technique discusses the cutting edge of contemporary practice in child and adolescent therapy. Monica Lanyado and Ann Horne bring a fresh approach to a field that is largely dominated... (more)
Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind
Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which should be of interest to all arts and play therapists... (more)
Sibling Relationships
For this volume, Prophecy Coles has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships. This exciting collection of papers addresses a... (more)
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents
The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis... (more)
The First Relationship: Infant and Mother
Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, The First Relationship offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his... (more)
You Don't Really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight and How Both Can Win
Mothers and teenage daughters argue more than any other child-parent pair - on average every two-and-a-half days. These quarrels, Terri Apter shows, are attempts to negotiate changes in a... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders in Adolescents: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
Improving Behaviour and Raising Self-esteem in the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Using Transactional Analysis
This work should help all teachers who face challenging behaviour in their classrooms. It offers support and guidance for dealing with issues of behaviour and makes suggestions for building creative... (more)
Sent Before My Time: A Child Psychotherapist's View of Life on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Sent Before My Time is an exploration of the workings of a neo natal intensive care unit from a child psychotherapist's point of view. It examines the relationships between the babies, the parents... (more)
Surviving Space: Papers on Infant Observation
Surviving Space is a collection of papers on infant observation and related issues by contemporary experts in the field, commemorating the centenary of Esther Bick and the unique contribution she has... (more)
So the witch won't eat me: Fantasy and the Child's Fear of Infanticide
From work with children and adults, the author presents clinical evidence that for many, the fear of being killed by parents is dominant in early childhood and, although diminished and unconscious,... (more)
Bullying at Schools: What We Know and What We Can Do
Discusses bully/victim problems in school and suggests effective ways of counteracting and preventing such problems. The book examines a new intervention programme that has been scientifically... (more)
Adolescence
'Adolescence - when we are no longer children and have not yet reached adulthood - is a time of much disturbance, change and potential for growth. The adolescent is confronted with a body that... (more)
A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
The author chronicles her remarkable bond with Ben, a severely disturbed five-year old. Orphaned, fostered, neglected, and even "forgotten" in a house fire, Ben finally begins to respond in an... (more)
Introduction to Developmental Playtherapy: Playing and Health
A stimulating book which will provide inspiration for those new to the discipline of play therapy, and at the same time will provide a fresh and exciting approach for established practitioners. 191... (more)
Burdened children: Theory, research, and treatment of parentification
What are the developmental effects on children who must fulfill the family role of parent ? This book defines 'parentified children' as those who are compelled to perform the role of parent at the... (more)
Autism and Childhood Psychosis
This is Frances Tustin's first book and the original statement of her views on autistic states of mind and the genesis of varieties of childhood psychosis. In it, she tackles problems of diagnosis as... (more)
The Child: Structure and Dynamics of the Nascent Personality
The Child is an examination of the structure and dynamics of the earliest developments of ego and individuality. In it we progress from the primal relationship of a child and mother through to the... (more)
Understanding Your Three-Year-Old
What changes when a young child begins to leave toddler-hood behind him? How do you keep track of your childs good and bad experiences at nursery and kindergarten and support her through them? What... (more)
Understanding Your Two-Year-Old
What makes children in their 'terrible twos' behave as they do? How can parents decide when their child is ready for day care, and manage their child's transition to a trusted child minder? Lisa... (more)
Love, Guilt and Reparation
This book shows the growth of Melanie Klein's work and ideas between 1921 and 1945. The earlier papers reveal her intense preoccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development. The... (more)
Developments in Infant Observation: The Tavistock Model
The contributors to this volume offer an overview of current practice in infant observation. They explore the new concepts that have arisen from direct observation, and show how the findings are... (more)
Pregnancy: The Inside Story
Utilising her wealth of material and experience, Raphael-Leff explores various aspects of 'the inside story' of pregnancy. She answers such questions as: What meanings does childbearing have in the... (more)
Live Company: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children
Children whose minds as well as bodies have been damaged by the intrusions of sexual abuse, violence or neglect, and others, quite different, who are handicapped by their own mysterious sensitivities... (more)