Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Encouraging Children to Learn
This work argues that the use of encouragement helps children, previously disengaged from learning, to believe in themselves and contribute to society. It provides parents, teachers and mental health... (more)
Psychosomatic Health: The Body and the Word
An exploration of the relationship between physical and psychological wellbeing. It draws on postmodern and narrative theory to consider the psychosomatic processes which underpin and enhance health.... (more)
Case Studies in Non-Directive Play Therapy
These seven case studies provide a detailed account of play therapy undertaken with children and an adolescent, all of whom experienced emotional problems and/or abuse. Each study details the child's... (more)
Parenting Girls
The aim of this book is to help parents and professionals to raise happy girls. It tackles issues raised during the child's development, stretching from infancy to adolescence. The contributors come... (more)
Surviving child sexual abuse: A handbook for helping women challenge their past
This is the second edition of a handbook for survivors of child sexual abuse and their helpers, featuring added material on the acknowledgement of survivors' strengths, the effect of sexual abuse on... (more)
Psychotic disorders in children and adolescents
This book will provide mental health professionals with a resource that contains specific information to better assess the exact nature of what is affecting their young patients, and to help to avoid... (more)
The Symbolic Impetus: How Creative Fantasy Motivates Development
This title describes the symbolic process in child's play at each stage from infancy onwards. In addition it shows how particular symbols can facilitate the healing of blocks that may arise in each... (more)
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Eye movement desensitization response (EMDR) is a useful tool for the psychotherapist. This is a discussion of the method, designed for therapists who know how to do therapy and want to understand... (more)
Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence
When Ghosts from the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence was first published, it was lauded for providing scientific evidence that violence can originate in the womb and become entrenched in a... (more)
The Handbook of Residential Care
Residential care is under a national spotlight. This handbook addresses the particular problems experienced by residential staff and offers real examples, case studies, analysis and guidance to those... (more)
Child sexual assault: Feminist perspectives
This work re-introduces a feminist analysis of child sexual assault. The introductory chapter provides an overview of historical developments whilst following chapters offer critical analyses of... (more)
Security of attachment and the social development of cognition:
Investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book links the domains of social and cognitive... (more)
A guide to interviewing children: Essential Skills for Counsellors, Police, Lawyers and Social Workers
This is a guide to the evidential interviewing techniques needed by a range of professionals: social workers, forensic psychologists, lawyers, police and teachers. It outlines basic techniques and... (more)
Eating Disorders: A Multi-Professional Approach
This text aims to provide the reader with a wide and in-depth understanding of the conditions of Anorexia and Bulimia. It brings together a range of perspectives and includes theoretical and clinical... (more)
Linking Parents to Play Therapy: A practical guide with applications, interventions, and case studies
This text is a practical guide for play therapists, combining theoretical understanding with a variety of techniques to make working with parents possible, practical and productive. (more)
101 more favorite play therapy techniques:
A second volume of play therapy techniques. The interventions accumulated here include the use of storytelling, expressive art, games, puppets, toys and group play techniques that have been... (more)
Post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents
A scholarly, multidisciplinary and comprehensive introduction to the field of post-traumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents, along with its clinical assessment and treatment. It is... (more)
The kindness of children
New in paperback. The author offers evidence of the natural kindness of children and asks whether they are wiser about the nature of kindness than we are led to believe. The book begins with the... (more)
Listening to Young People in School, Youth Work and Counselling
Effective work with young people requires empathy and understanding. This text captures the reality of young people's experiences, their relationships and the things that are important to them. Using... (more)
Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder: Innovative Parenting and Counseling Techniques for Helping Chi
This work contains innovative parenting and counselling techniques for helping children with bipolar disorder and the conditions that may occur with it. 236 pages. (more)
Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents
This work brings together an array of contributors to demonstrate how narrative and collaborative work with young people can foster unique and imaginative solutions to even the most challenging... (more)
Parenting: What really counts?
The author considers whether it is necessary to have two parents and explores the psychological processes that underlie optimal development for children, particularly the quality of the child's... (more)
Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context
A study of the mental development of children, which examines children's learning as an apprenticeship, a social activity mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's... (more)
Attachment and Development
Attachment theory is the current dominant theory of parent-child relationships and their influence on development. This text provides a general overview of attachment work, and examines the impact of... (more)
