Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Making sense of social development:
This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers. It considers the different cultural conceptions of the teacher- learner relationship, and how this relates to... (more)
Liberating the learner: Lessons for professional development in education
Provides a framework for exploring teachers' views on a whole range of professional issues: the nature of teaching and learning; the needs of students; and their own abilities as learners. Case... (more)
Enhancing parenting skills: A guidebook and resource for professionals working with parents
This guide should help both those involved in planning and organizing, and those offering help to parents. The contents include chapters on "good enough" parenting; developing home-based parenting... (more)
Ties that stress: The new family imbalance
This text traces the roots of the postmodern family back to the failure of the modern nuclear family and its institutions to meet the needs of parents. It examines recent changes to the family due to... (more)
Self-esteem games: 300 fun activities that make children feel good about themselves
A parent's handbook for building children's self-esteem and confidence, this book integrates upbeat, positive advice with step-by-step directions. Over 300 games are included that develop children's... (more)
Could do better: Why children underachieve and what to do about it
This work provides detailed techniques for recognizing, understanding and effectively helping under-achieving children of any age in school and at home. Opposing the conventional theory, the book... (more)
The caring child:
An account of our understanding of the motivations behind prosocial behaviours and how these motives develop in various situations. Eisenberg seeks to broaden our concept of the moral potential of... (more)
Middle Childhood
Drawing on interviews and group discussions with parents and children of primary-school age, this study examines how children perceive their social environs; what they want from their parents; and... (more)
Reparation: restoring the damaged self in child and adult psychotherapy:
Examining the clinical processes of reparation, in order to restore the damaged aspects of the self, this text documents the benefits of psychotherapy. The maintenance of emotional stability in... (more)
Raising Responsible Teenagers
Adolescence is the final stage of childhood, the springboard to adult life and a time where values are being blended into a mixture that adults can still greatly influence. This book is a survival... (more)
Young children, parents and professionals: Enhancing the links in early childhood
As early education and child care increase, parents and professionals face many questions. This book proposes three dimensions of care giving behaviour, by which parents and professionals can help... (more)
The voice of the child: A handbook for professionals
This collection provides a guide to the legal requirements surrounding children's rights. The book discusses the practicalities and problems of listening to the child in educational, social and... (more)
Behaviour problems in young children: Assessment and management
This account of emotional and behavioural problems in young children is also a practical guide to the assessment and management of such children. It should prove of interest to health visitors,... (more)
Children's reflections on family life:
How important is the family for children? How do children cope when parents have to juggle child care, employment and other responsibilities? In this volume these questions, and others, are raised... (more)
Myths of childhood:
Using empirically-based research from areas including behavioural genetics and attachment, this book builds a case against the primacy of childhood. It is an important addition to the literature... (more)
The Borderline Psychotic Child: A Selective Integration
This book reviews the history and evolution of the borderline diagnosis for children, both in the UK and USA, and brings the reader up to date with current clinical opinion on the subject. 218 pages. (more)
Children and interparental violence: the impact of exposure
This text, rich with impeccable research, current theories, and treatment strategies, pays specific and unique attention to the families' ethnic backgrounds, parents' sexual orientations and forensic... (more)
The Dynamics of Adoption
This text documents experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process - adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and the professionals. It reflects on the feelings detailed in the... (more)
Group Work with Sexually Abused Children: A Practitioner's Guide
This easy-to-follow manual presents techniques for working with groups of children who have been sexually abused.It begins with an overview of the theory and literature of group therapy with children... (more)
Resolving childhood trauma: A long-term study of abuse survivors
An engaging and compassionate book which provides a hopeful and helpful perspective for trauma survivors. The author's extensive and innovative research with child abuse survivors also provides... (more)
Letters to Children in Family Therapy: A narrative approach
Marner explains the theory behind writing to children in family therapy. He shows how using stories makes the problems of children more manageable for them. 109 pages. (more)
Anna Freud: A view of development, disturbance and therapeutic techniques
This study takes a fresh look at the relatively unknown contributions of Anna Freud's work to psychoanalytical theory and child development. The book highlights how her work is still relevant and... (more)
Early Experience and the Life Path
This text concludes on the basis of empirical evidence that theories which ascribe overriding importance to the early years are erroneous. The authors examine the wide-ranging theoretical and... (more)
Children, feelings and divorce: Finding the best outcome
A distillation of the author's 25 years experience of working with children whose parents have divorced. A positive approach suggests interventions based on knowledge and understanding can greatly... (more)