Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Children Without Language - From Dysphasia to Autism
Communication and language disorders are often considered from one particular point of view - either psychological or neurological. Danon-Boileau argues that this is a serious mistake. He emphasizes... (more)
Resilience and Vulnerability: Adaptation in the Context of Childhood Adversities
Integrated in this book are contributions from leading scientists who have each studied children's adjustment across risks common in contemporary society. Chapters in the first half of the book focus... (more)
A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play
New in paperback. In' A Child's Work', innovative and widely respected educator Vivian Gussin Paley offers a manifesto against the decline of children's creative time, making the case for the... (more)
Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social
Autism is now considered to be one of the most common developmental disorders today, yet 100 years ago it did not exist. This book examines the historical and social events that enabled autism to be... (more)
Revealing the Inner Worlds of Young Children: The MacArthur Story Stem Battery and Parent-child Narratives
Typically, we make sense of our experiences and interactions in a way that is guided by emotion and that takes the form of a narrative or a story. Using narratives, we can tell others about our... (more)
Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions
New in paperback. This book is the first synoptic rendering of Beebe's and Lachmann's impressive body of work. Therapists unfamiliar with current research findings will find here a comprehensive and... (more)
Emotional Development: Recent Research Advances
From prenatal life onwards, our emotions play a central role in our development. Exactly how emotions shape our lives is less clear. We know that emotional impairments can have a disastrous effect on... (more)
Family Solutions for Youth at Risk: Applications to Juvenile Delinquency, Truancy, and Behavior Problems
Because it is impossible to understand the circumstances surrounding an individual youth's behaviour without understanding his or her family environment, Family Solutions for Youth at Risk advocates... (more)
Practical Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology:
This book synthesises the most recent findings about drug treatments for children with a broad range of psychiatric disorders. (more)
Invisible Boundaries: Psychosis and Autism in Children and Adolescents
The chapters of this book are all written by experienced psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists and address different aspects of the psychotherapeutic treatment with psychotic children or... (more)
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)
