Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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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)
Special needs in the early years: Snapshots of practice
This text celebrates good practice in the area of early years and special needs by bringing together authors who are either practitioners or researchers, from a range of different and diverse early... (more)
Emerging Minds
How do children acquire the vast array of concepts, strategies, and skills that distinguish the thinking of infants and toddlers from that of pre-schoolers, older children and adolescents? In this... (more)
Alternatives to Exclusion from School
Exclusion from school is a major concern for teachers, parents and children and features in government initiatives to tackle social exclusion. This book takes a broad look at exclusion, mapping its... (more)
Emotional Development: The Organization of Emotional Life in the Early Years
In the past, researchers have treated the development of the emotions and the task of emotional regulation as two separate topics, the former emphasizing 'normative' questions and the latter... (more)
Peer support in action: From bystanding to standing by
Peer support systems are increasingly being used in schools and other youth settings to tackle problems such as bullying, rejection, social exclusion, sexual identity, self-esteem and loneliness.... (more)
Clinical Counselling in Schools
This volume aims to provide counsellors with essential information on how to understand and best work within a school context. It covers a wide range of problems encountered and includes... (more)
Bringing Up a Challenging Child at Home: When Love is Not Enough
In this account of raising Chrissy, a child with a learning disability and cyclical mental illness, Gregory relates her struggle to manage and understand Chrissy's behavioural problems and deal with... (more)
Adolescents after divorce:
This work questions why some children thrive and others falter when their parents are divorced. It follows children from 1100 divorcing families, and from a range of different backgrounds, to... (more)
Positive Parenting
Based on the belief that only when a child is convinced that its parents are on its side can it develop true self-esteem and develop into a self-confident, self-reliant and happy person, this book... (more)
Parenting Behaviour and Children's Cognitive Development
The association between parents' behaviour and children's cognitive development is at the meeting place of several prominent theories of psychological development and a range of complex... (more)