Child and Adolescent Studies Books
You and Your Child: Making Sense of Learning Disabilities
This volume looks at the physical, mental and emotional development of children with varying degrees of learning disabilities through tracing the development of six young adults from childhood. The... (more)
You and Your Toddler
A central theme of this book is the gradual process of separation between parents and toddlers and the growth of autonomy in them all. Jenny Stoker has written with clarity, sympathy and warmth about... (more)
You and Your Baby
This volume is to help parents understand what their baby is likely to be feeling in the first year. It describes how the baby's sense of self develops, with intentionality, empathy and recognition... (more)
Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families
This enriching book describes the value of learning about the development of the human personality through the experience of observing a baby in the context of the family. It is distinctive in the... (more)
Understanding Children's Drawings
This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy. The book enables therapists to address the... (more)
The Autism Encyclopedia - 500+ Entries for Parents and Professionals
This comprehensive collection of over 500 terms related to autism spectrum disorders and pervasive developmental disorders clearly explains classification systems, causes, prevalence, diagnosis,... (more)
Managing Boys' Behaviour
A practical guide for teachers and trainees on managing boys' behaviour; part of the behaviour management strand. A practical and engaging guide for teachers on tackling boys' behaviour problems. The... (more)
Child Abuse and Neglect: Attachment, Development and Intervention
Offers a survey of the field of child abuse and neglect from the perspective of modern developmental attachment theory. The book opens with an account of the theory and describes the ways in which... (more)
Culturally Competent Therapy: Working With Children and Young People
The need to respond effectively to every troubled child or young person has never been greater as the world witnesses a period of global anxiety. Increased migration, terrorism, ethnic conflict,... (more)
The Social World of Pupil Career: Strategic Biographies Through Primary School
The second part of a seven-year ethnography of individual pupils from the ages of four to eleven in an English primary school. The book presents a sociological analysis of children coping with the... (more)
Authentic Relationships in Group Care for Infants and Toddlers - Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE): Principles into Practice
Underpinned by substantive research on meeting the developmental and attachment needs of infants, this book offers constructive advice on how to encourage curiosity, confidence and emotional security... (more)
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens provides straightforward advice on using storytelling and metaphors in a variety of therapeutic settings. Ideal for all who work with young people, this unique... (more)
Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art: Using Draw-A-Story to Identify Children and Adolescents at Risk
This book investigates the connections between a child's expression through drawing and their violent behavior. It also explores the potential of the Draw a Story Test for use as an early identifier... (more)
New In Our Nation: Activities to Promote Self-Esteem and Resilience in Young Asylum Seekers
Refugee children have often experienced great disruption, violence and fear. They have frequently lost members of their family and may even have witnessed their deaths. They have left everything that... (more)
Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties: Book 2
This work develops the ideas in "Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties Book One: A Psycholinguistic Framework". It discusses how to identify children with speech and literacy problems and to... (more)
Someone Very Important Has Just Died: Immediate Help for People Caring for Children of All Ages at the Time of a Close Bereavement
A resource for professionals in all areas of work relating to bereavement. It is designed to be given to adults with children in their care at the time of a death. (more)
Promoting Emotional Well Being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health:
This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the... (more)
Fostering Adolescents
Adolescents are the hardest group to foster and have high rates of placement breakdown. This text examines what helps to make placements work. Key issues are explored, including peer relationships,... (more)
Adolescent Psychiatry: Vol.26
Tracks the evolution of adolescent psychiatry as it strives to keep pace with therapeutic and social responsibilities which, in the 21st century, have become increasingly intertwined. It draws... (more)
Adolescent Psychiatry: Vol.27
Volume 27 of "Adolescent Psychiatry" focuses on trauma and violence among adolescents, and attends especially to the psychological, biological and social impact of trauma of its victims, especially... (more)
Adolescent Psychiatry: Vol.25
A discussion of adolescent psychiatry. The chapters are divided into sections on: developmental issues; psychopathology in adolescence; psychotherapeutic approaches to adolescents; and forensic... (more)