Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children
This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young... (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)
Children, technology and culture: The impacts of technologies in children's everyday lives
"Children, Technology and Culture" looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. (more)
Simultaneous Treatment of Parent and Child (2nd Edition)
Taking the reader through the theory of simultaneous treatment and the psychological processes underlying it she draws on three in-depth case studies of children she has worked with. (more)
Trauma, the Body and Transformation: A Narrative Enquiry
Trauma suffered during childhood can affect not only a person's emotional and mental health, but also their physical health, even into adulthood. This unique book fills a gap in research in this... (more)
Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents
Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents deals with the prevention of psychological problems which are of central concern to those who fund and develop health, social and educational... (more)
The Handbook of Group Play Therapy: How to Do it, How it Works, Whom it's Best for
Here is a comprehensive guide to of the the most effective and dynamic childhood intervention available to counselors, therapists, teachers, psychologists, and anyone who works with kids. This... (more)
Introduction to Play Therapy
A variety of models of working with play are explored, and an evaluation of the meaning of childhood is discussed in clear language, illustrated with clinical examples. This book will help adults who... (more)
The Infant and Family in the 21st Century
This volume addresses the most significant and recent issues of infant and child psychiatry, examining topics from clinical care and research perspectives as well as from the perspectives of policies... (more)
The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education
This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational institutions. It looks at the origins of learning in... (more)
Early Childhood Assessment
This book presents a thorough, step-by-step approach to the comprehensive psychological assessment of young children. It covers the major psychological tests and features specific guidelines and... (more)
Children's Discourse: Person, Space and Time across Languages
Hickmann's findings concern the rhythm of acquisition, the interplay among different factors (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic) determining children's uses, and universal versus variable aspects of... (more)