Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Schools for growth: Radical alternatives to current educational models
A deconstruction and reconstruction of learning, development and schooling that urges teachers to explore and create new educational opportunities for themselves and their students. The author asks,... (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)
In and out of care: The experiences of children, parents and social workers
A unique insight into the workings of the child care system, based on the testimony of children, parents, and workers in the field. 150 pages. (more)
Children in care revisited
The author follows the lives of people from her initial contact with them as a social worker to the present, some twenty years later. 194 pages. (more)
Black children in the public care system:
The author has based her study on empirical data collected from a survey of an inner-city Local Authority Social Services Department. Over 500 case histories have been analyzed and evidence gathered... (more)
School climate: Measuring, improving and sustaining healthy learning environments
This text provides a framework for educators to look at school and classroom climates using both informal and formal measures. Each chapter focuses on an aspect of climate and includes instruments... (more)
Theraplay: Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy
Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Theraplay therapist and trainer, introduces this... (more)
Treating the adolescent in family therapy: A developmental and narrative approach
Teenagers exploring their identities fare best when they stay connected with family, the author has learned. Accordingly, she endorses family therapy as the appropriate forum for treating them. In... (more)
Dynamics of development and the therapeutic process:
Covers the psychoanalytic model of mental funtioning, including developmental, object-relational and conflict theories. The author provides an examination of the rationale behind the psychoanalytic... (more)
Next Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tykes and Teens
Primarily aimed at adoptive parents, this practical work offers sensitive guidance to parents of children who have suffered separation, loss and trauma in early childhood. It will also be of immense... (more)
First Steps in Parenting the Child Who Hurts: Tiddlers and Toddlers
Primarily aimed at adoptive parents, this practical work offers sensitive guidance to parents through the dark areas of separation, loss and trauma in early childhood. It will also be of immense help... (more)
The Adoption Experience: Families Who Give Children a Second Chance
A book containing real life stories which take the reader through every stage of the adoption process. It aims to inform and enlighten professionals, adopters and potential adopters and all those who... (more)
The Forgotten Mourners: Guidelines for Working with Bereaved Children
A new and revised edition which raises awareness of the sensitive issues involved for bereaved children, highlighting their needs and their emotional and behavioural responses to bereavement. 114... (more)
Children, Bereavement and Trauma: Nurturing Resilience
Based on the authors' findings from working with children affected by the Hillsborough disaster, this book recognises children's natural resilience and shows how to work with that resilience in... (more)
The Postdivorce family: Children, parenting, and society
This book focuses on the consequences of divorce for children, and examines the parents' responsibilities after divorce. It concludes with a section that explores the effects of a high divorce rate... (more)
Violence in homes and communities: prevention, intervention, and treatment
This books shows why there has been an increase in domestic, workplace, and community violence, and what can be done to prevent it. Part of the Issues in Children's and Families' Lives series. 326... (more)
The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed Parentage: Mixed Metaphors
Based on research on interracial families with young children, this book reviews the previous literature relating to racial identity development, especially relating to biracial children, and finds... (more)
Short-term psychotherapy groups for children: adapting group processes for specific problems:
The short-term group approach to child therapy is a method of helping children to overcome a range of emotional and behavioural problems. This work provides therapists at all levels of experience... (more)