Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Growing Up Severely Autistic: They Call Me Gabriel
This book is written partly in diary form. It charts the life of Gabriel, a serverely autistic boy, from early childhood to the age of 17. It describes with affection how Gabriel's behaviour,... (more)
Good Grief: Vol.1: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Under 11's
Catering for a variety of religious and cultural backgrounds with a practical and creative approach, this guide offers a source of information as to dealing with loss and grief within the structure... (more)
Building Solutions in Child Protective Services
The authors of this book present readers with the challenge to rethink the way we work with families to keep children safe. They have intergrated family-based practice into the protective arena while... (more)
Postpartum Depression and Child Development
This text is concerned with the impact of parental psychiatric disorder on parenting and child development. These depressions can have a profoundly negative effect on the quality of the mother-infant... (more)
Emotional and behavioural difficulties: Theory to practice
A concise guide to the major approaches to dealing with emotional and behavioural difficulties - counselling, behavioural approaches, family therapy and class management based on analysis of social... (more)
Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis
Robert Cole's penetrating intellectual portrait gives us an entirely new view of Anna Freud. Far from the stereotype of the distant analyst, she was the warm guide, the ego ideal, the "good parent"... (more)
Helping Children to Manage Loss: Positive Strategies for Renewal and Growth
This text explores the territory of loss in childhood using the words of children who have found themselves bereft of hope. The book touches on subjects such as: helping a child prepare for loss and... (more)
Practice issues in sexuality and learning disabilities:
This aims to be a practical guide for all those who work in services for people with learning disabilities. It is an exploration of the sexual behaviour of people with learning disabilities, and... (more)
Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome
In 1991, Echo Fling was told by her son's teacher that his behaviour was not normal. Jimmy had failed to make friends and acted aggressively. This book tells Jimmy's story from his mother's viewpoint... (more)
Treating sexually abused boys: A practical guide for therapists and counselors
This practical, hands-on guide will be a valuable resource offering clinical guidelines for addressing the unique needs of boys who have suffered sexual abuse. It contains a wealth of exercises and... (more)
Children of Social Trauma: Hungarian Psychoanalytic Case Studies
Observing the ways in which a large group of people may experience collective trauma, which can have identifiable effects in succeeding generations, the author has pioneered individual and group... (more)
Childhood Experiences of Domestic Violence
A discussion of first-hand accounts from children and young people regarding their experiences of both domestic violence and the support services. Based on a three-year research project, it seeks to... (more)
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)