Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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)
Children's Solution Work
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) has proven extremely successful with adults. Yet therapists often despair of using SFBT with children. Insoo Kim Berg and Therese Steiner show this despair to be... (more)
101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques: Volume 3
A resource for play therapy techniques. The contributors are from a diverse group including child-centred, gestalt and Jungian play therapists. The techniques are grouped in seven sections:... (more)
Friendship in childhood and adolescence:
This overview of the nature and significance of children's peer relationships examines issues such as social-cognitive development; the context of children's relationships; relationship problems such... (more)
Children's Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness
Foulkes offers a spirited defense of the independence of the psychological realm, and the legitimacy of studying it without either psychoanalytic over-interpretation or neurophysiological... (more)
Toddler Troubles: Coping with your Under 5's
Parent and Clinical Psychologist Jo Douglas has been working with families for over 25 years and understands how hard bringing up toddlers can be. In this wonderful new book, she provides a wealth of... (more)
Children's sibling relationships: developmental and clinical issues
In the last decade, the significance of siblings in children's development and adjustment has been widely recognized, and research on brothers and sisters has increased dramatically. Bringing... (more)
The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis
'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)
The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care
The field of child and adolescent psychotherapy is still relatively young and its short history has resulted in a paucity of mental health services for this neglected group. There is a distinct lack... (more)
Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott
This book presents the life and work of one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator in helping... (more)
Psychic Hooks and Bolts: Psychoanalytic Work with Children Under Five and their Families
'In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the family re-groups differently, and understanding... (more)
Violent Adolescents: Understanding the Destructive Impulse
This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which contribute to violent behaviour. The contributors... (more)
Children's drawings: (Le dessin enfantin)
This title looks at children's drawings in light of modern psychology, focusing on the two main theories - visual realism and intellectual realism - whilst examining the work of Georges-Henri Luquet... (more)
Substance Abuse and Dependence in Adolescence: Epidemiology, Risk Fact
This title presents state-of-the-art information on substance abuse and dependence in adolescence including: general issues related to substance abuse disorders; epidemiology, comorbidity, course,... (more)
Infant and Toddler Mental Health: Models of Clinical Intervention
This work deals with the most common and important problems in infant psychopathology (problems with trauma, sleep, feeding, excessive crying, attachment disruptions and so on) and how to evaluate... (more)
Imagining the impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children
This text discusses the development of human thinking that goes beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. Various research initiatives have emerged in the past decade exploring such matters as... (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)
Post-natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood
This text challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a "happy mother". It provides a critique of the traditional medical and social science explanations of "post natal depression" by... (more)
The Elusive Child
'Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of... (more)
Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care
Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is... (more)