Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Good Grief: Vol.2: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Over Elevens and Adults
Catering for a variety of religious and cultural backgrounds with a practical and creative approach, this guide offers a source of information as to dealing with loss and grief within the structure... (more)
Infancy to Early Childhood: Genetic and Environmental Change
Behavioural genetics is a fast-growing, multidisciplinary field which attempts to explain the influence of genetic and environmental factors on behaviour through the lifespan. The preferred... (more)
Straight Talk About Psychological Testing for Kids
Taking a child in for psychological testing is a tough move. It's hard to imagine how experts who don't know your child can really get a handle on his or her complex strengths and weaknesses. This... (more)
School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse: See it - Stop it - Prevent it with Dignity and Respect
Gail Elliott explores why people, particularly children, take part in mobbing situations, and addresses how adults can teach children to have dignity and respect for themselves, which they will then... (more)
Emotional Release for Children
Focusing on past experiences to begin the process of emotional healing, this book provides methods for helping children and adolescents experiencing depression, fear, hidden grief and unpredictable... (more)
Young People, Sex and the Media
Using research which investigated childrens' interpretations of sexual content in films, TV and print, this book considers how young people (aged 9-17) use such material to understand their... (more)
The Changing State of Youth:
Both detailed and wide-ranging in its analysis, this text takes as its basic premise the idea that age is a key site of division and explores the key elements of the process by which young people are... (more)
Early Prediction and Prevention of Child Abuse
This handbook is a reference for all those involved in child protection work. With a focus on evidence-based practice, the handbook features four sections covering subjects on prevalence and... (more)
Handbook of Parenting: Theory, Research and Practice
This text concerns the growing level of interest in research, educational and professional activity within the broadly defined field of parenting. (more)
Play Diagnosis and Assessment:
Through play children can express emotions that they cannot verbalise. This completely revised edition of a classic, field-leading resource explains to clinicians how best to identify children's... (more)
A House Divided
Tells the tale of a mother's fight to retain custody of her daughter amid accusations of mother-daughter incest, drawing on case interviews, trial transcripts, police reports, and other documentary... (more)
Parent Power: Bringing Up Responsible Children and Teenagers:
This step-by-step guide provides information for parents who want to positively encourage their children and teenagers to behave well and to achieve their full potential. (more)
Therapeutic Approaches in Work with Traumatized Children and Young People: Theory and Practice
Meeting weekly to discuss and review their therapeutic practice in the light of relevant theoretical approaches, the staff at the Cotswold Community produced an invaluable record of working with... (more)
Deliberate Self-Harm in Adolescence
This informative resource provides guidance for professionals and parents caring for young people at risk of self-harm and suicide. The authors consider what research tells us about the increased... (more)
Feeding Your Child: The Brazelton Way
A concerned parent's guide to better nutrition applies the "Touchpoints" philosophy to feeding kids, revealing the hidden balance parents must achieve in feeding their children, from breast or bottle... (more)
Calming Your Fussy Baby: The Brazelton Way: Advice from America's Favorite Pediatrician
Here, the authors help parents to interpret the very first cries, smiles and cooing of an infant, and show how to respond in the most appropriate and effective way to this early communication. They... (more)
Can You Help Me? A Guide for Parents
This book is based on common questions that parents have about their children and their relationships with the world at large. Drawing from his extensive experience as a child psychoanalyst (and as a... (more)
Mothers, Babies and their Body Language
This volume explores the complex interaction and the importance of early communication between mother and baby from pregnancy to the first early months of development. It provides a rich and detailed... (more)
From Chaos to Coherence: Psychotherapy with a Little Boy with ADHD
'...I am flooded with warmth for this little expert on the art of living, who has just realised that even he has the possibility to live a long life. My interpretation is that he trusts he will get... (more)
Infantile Sexuality and Attachment
Freud wrote in 1905 that children’s sexual life, although dominated by the erogenous zones, also has components in which, from the beginning, other people appear as sexual objects. These people — the... (more)
Adult Analysis and Childhood Sexual Abuse
A study of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on adult analysis. Topics covered include the sequelae of sexual maltreatment of children; the impact of incest trauma on ego development; and... (more)
Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare
This book brings together theoretical and practice issues for all those involved with welfare responses to addiction and child protection. It presents a practical model for risk assessment and... (more)
The Family and the School: A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children: Second Edition
This reissued classic contains material specifically related to work with schools and reflects the major changes in society, in legislation and in the interaction between families and the education... (more)
Experiences of Donor Conception Parents, Offspring and Donors Through the Years
Drawing on the experiences of parents, offspring and donors, this is an exploration of the process of donor conception. The author takes the reader step by step through the process of deciding to use... (more)