Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Child Welfare Policy and Practice: Issues and Lessons Emerging from Current Research
This book explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare & social work. The contributors discuss the social matters that are prevelant within the Uk, as well... (more)
Parenting the ADD Child: Can't Do? Won't Do? Practical Strategies for Managing Behaviour Problems in Children with ADD and ADHD
This volume explores the dilemmas facing parents with an ADD child. Aimed at reducing the conflicts and friction that are often a part of home and school life, the author introduces the 'ADDapt'... (more)
Signs of safety: A solution and safety oriented approach to child protection casework
Focusing on how child protection professionals can build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect, this book brings the solution-oriented model to... (more)
Interviewing children: A guide for child care and forensic practitioners
This text offers practitioners an understanding of children's language abilities at different development stages, and gives clear guidelines on strategies that professionals might adopt to facilitate... (more)
Evolutionary principles of human adolescence:
Presenting a research-based treatment of adolescent development from a functional, evolutionary point of view, this work also offers a comparative perspective, describing adolescence in other... (more)
Psychotherapy for children & adolescents: Directions for research and practice
What do we wish to know about psychotherapy and its effects? What do we already know? And what needs to be accomplished to fill the gap? These questions and others are explored in this updated book... (more)
Raising their voices: The politics of girls' anger
Based on Lyn Brown's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle-school girls, this text allows the reader to hear how the girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously... (more)
Treating the disruptive adolescent: finding the real child behind oppositional defiant disorders:
This text offers clinicians an effective method of dealing with oppositional, resistant and disruptive older children and teenagers. It introduces a comprehensive programme that clinicians can use to... (more)
The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness
Examining the "exploited-repressive" and "vindictive" reactions to a patient's actual or perceived abuse, this study looks at the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasy and the granting or... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Study of Lives Over Time: Clinical and Research Perpectives on Children Who Return to Treatment in Adulthood
A group of international analytic clinicians and researchers all comment on three child analytic situations where the patient has returned to treatment in adulthood. They compare findings from the... (more)
Handbook of counseling boys and adolescent males: A practioner's guide
The contributing authors address a wide variety of developmental and cultural considerations pertaining to the counselling of boys. They also identify and offer extremely useful recommendations for... (more)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Developmental Approach: Fourth Revised Edition
This is one of the standard international textbooks on child and adolescent mental health. Its strengths lie in its up-to-date, evidence-based approach to practical clinical issues and its... (more)
Sharing care: The integration of family approaches with child treatment
Caring for the child involves caring for other family members as well. This book describes how the therapist must balance the needs and feelings of parents, children, and families as a whole, during... (more)
Children and Young People who Sexually Abuse Others: Challenges and Responses: Second Edition
Presents key research findings about incidence, prevalence and characteristics of young sexual abusers. The text includes issues such as policy and sevice development, particularly in the context of... (more)
The social construction of anorexia nervosa
Shows how anorexia nervosa must be considered in its social and cultural contexts in order to be understood and treated. It demonstrates how contemporary debates about anorexia are continually... (more)
Communicative Psychoanalysis with Children
This work explains the communicative theory of psychoanalysis of Robert Langs and teaches the rudiments of communicative clinical technique. Part Two presents therapists' consultation room... (more)
Narcissistic disorders in children and adolescents: diagnosis and treatment:
The treatment of nascissistic problems in children and adolescents is addressed in this book. It concerns children with nascissistic vulnerabilities expressed in feelings of injury, shame and... (more)
Overcoming Childhood Trauma
This book will help the sufferer understand the links between past trauma and present difficulties and offers ways to gain control over these problems, allowing the individual to deal with intrusive... (more)
Marching to a Different Tune: Diary About an ADHD Boy
This text is a day-by-day account of Stefan Fletcher, diagnosed with ADHD, whose unusual and difficult behaviour affects and disrupts family life. The author describes the struggles, embarrassments... (more)
Residential Child Care: International Perspectives on Links With Families and Peers
This book uses examples of good practice and innovatory ideas from the UK and abroad to show how encouraging families to maintain an active role in the welfare of their children in care is vitally... (more)
Handbook of psychotherapies with children and families:
Presents a comprehensive overview of the array of intervention approaches in the child mental health field. Its coverage reflects late-1990s trends of intervention with specific problems and... (more)
Child Play: Its Importance for Human Development
Explores the theories and practice of play. The author suggests that media influences have a profound effect on behaviour and, by stressing the importance of understanding play as a chart of... (more)
Using Interactive Imagework with Children: Walking on the Magic Mountain
Deborah Plummer here outlines a theoretical framework for using imagework with children, and presents seven practical sessions for use with individuals or groups. 140 pages. (more)
Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges
Designed to help families with adopted children to create the rites and traditions inherent in families with a natural shared history. 141 pages. (more)
Special Care Babies and Their Developing Relationships
Examines the experiences of the premature baby in the hospital, and how the way professionals and parents interact with it and between themselves affects its future development. (more)
Creative Therapy: Activities with Children and Adolescents
Containing over 50 activities (exercises, worksheets and games) which can be used in working with children, adolescents or families, this text aims to encourage creativity in therapy and assist in... (more)
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is a medical diagnosis label for a mixed group of disruptive behaviours in children, which influences their development, family relationships and... (more)
Social work with black children and their families:
Part of a series, this is a guide to developments in welfare services for black families in the early 1980s. It describes practical ways of meeting the black population's needs and the implications... (more)
Separation and the Very Young
An account of the pioneering work of this uniquely influential couple. Covers topics such as: How do children feel when they are separated from their parents and familiar surroundings and what is it... (more)