Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Parent-Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts
This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and... (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)
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)
Imprisoned Fathers and Their Children
More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are seperated from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Using case studies to illustrate their points, the authors examines the effect this seperation... (more)
Childhood Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
Childhood Psychosis is a well-structured and informative study that explores childhood psychosis and its different manifestations in depth, with special emphasis on the relation between psychosis and... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Children and Adults: Meltzer in Barcelona
This volume is a collection of seminars and lectures Donald Meltzer gave to the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona under Dr Leon Grinberg, and later Dr Benito Lopez, during his visit to Barcelona. The... (more)
Cyberkids: Youth identities and communities in an on-line world
This text draws together research in the sociology of childhood and social studies of technology to explore children's experiences in the information age. The book addresses policy debates about... (more)
Cool places: Geographies of youth culture
Drawing on examples from a number of countries, this text introduces the ideas of culture and space - identity politics, gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, performativity, power, agency -... (more)
Informal education with young people: Principles and practice
This text explores the principles and practice of informal education and focuses, in particular, on the notion of "working with" which is central to practice in this sector. It is aimed at informal... (more)
Young people's views on sex education: Education, attitudes and behaviour
Based on observations of sex education programmes and in-depth interviews with young people, the authors aim to understand more about adolescent's attitudes to sexuality and their sexual behaviour in... (more)
Uncertain masculinities: Youth, ethnicity and class in contemporary Britain
In this era of rapid and unsettling change boys now more than ever face difficulties in establishing their self-image and status. This study explores how teenage boys from white, African-Caribbean... (more)
The School Years: Current Issues in the Socialization of Young People
A challenging and lively collection of essays on key issues affecting young people in the school setting. It is an essential book for all those concerned with adolescence and education. Since the... (more)
Connecting children: Care and family life in later childhood
This text focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different... (more)
Childhood studies: A reader in perspectives of childhood
This text brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been treated historically and how such a concept (more)