Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The inner life of children with special needs
Most children have interesting interior lives, but the inner lives of some children with special needs often contain secrets which may be permanent or damaging. This book offers professionals working... (more)
Understanding and Supporting Children With Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
A guide to emotional and behavioural difficulties - currently a particularly ill-defined group of disorders - which can cause children to become disruptive. The work examines the nature of EBDs and... (more)
Adults abused as children: Experiences of counselling and psychotherapy
This book brings together the experiences of both clients and therapists working with those who have suffered childhood abuse. It consolidates existing knowledge about child abuse and psycho-
Safer childbirth: A critical history of maternity care
This third edition considers the evidence on which the author's recommended changes in policy were made and the implications of implementing them. Statistics suggested that for some women hospital... (more)
From Thoughts to Obsessions: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is the term given to a condition characterised by recurring obsessive thoughts or actions. This introductory book, illustrated using case studies, explains the... (more)
Through the Eyes of Aliens: A Book about Autistic People
The author, herself autistic, perceives the keenly-felt sensory world of the autistic person as a gift. She argues that 'normalizing' autistic people is not just ineffective, but wrong. This book... (more)
Techniques and issues in abuse-focused therapy with children and adole
The author describes the 'internalization model', which she uses as a framework to assist in understanding the effects of sexual abuse on children and adolescents who are reluctant to talk about... (more)
Group work with children and adolescents: Prevention and intervention in school and community systems
This new work presents the concepts, context and applications of a problem-solving approach to group work with children and adolescents. Key points are illustrated with the help of case examples for... (more)
Depression in Children and Adolescents
Awareness of the need to take the problem of childhood depression more seriously has highlighted the lack of practical material for those working in this area. This text offers a resource for the... (more)
The girl with the brown crayon:
A personal story of a mentor and a child, embracing themes of race, identity gender, and the human need to create and to belong. The child, Reeny, meets a writer of books and story-teller, is... (more)
Time to listen to children: Personal and professional communication
A practical guide to effective communication with children. It examines the skills required to help children articulate their problems, and discusses issues such as training, cultural background and... (more)
The Secret Life Of The Unborn Child: A remarkable and controversial look at life before birth
At sixteen weeks the unborn child shies away from light. At twenty weeks there is a response to speech patterns. At twenty-five weeks the baby can kick in time to music. And at six months the unborn... (more)
The Mind of Your Newborn Baby
In this new book the author demonstrates that newborn children are fully cognitive human beings with the ability to discriminate and experience the world in sophisticated ways. He shows that not only... (more)
The History of Childhood:
A survey of childhood that reveals startling views of life in Europe and America during the past 2000 years. This book documents the lives of former children who were abused. It places child abuse... (more)
Sandplay Therapy With Children and Families
Reminding us that, in family therapy, we can only take clients as far as we ourselves have been able to go, Carey espouses personal involvement in the process. The book explores the theoretical... (more)
Play Therapy Techniques: Second Edition
This is a convenient sourcebook of practical techniques in play therapy. It offers a wide variety of play techniques, including classic and recent approaches, and also contains explicit "how-to"... (more)
The Playing Cure: Individualized Play Therapy for Specific Childhood Problems
Focusing on the curative powers of play, this book demonstrates how play therapy can be adapted to the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety... (more)
Play Therapy Interventions with Children's Problems: Case Studies with DSM-IV Diagnoses
The findings of child play therapy research studies and case reports are brought together here. They dispel the myth that play therapy requires a long-term commitment over many months. The findings... (more)
Boy Crazy: Remembering Adolescence, Therapies and Dreams
Drawing on extensive research, Janet Sayers demonstrates the significance we attach in adulthood to our experiences as adolescents. She also explores the extent to which Freud, Jung and feminism... (more)
Children's Stories in Play Therapy
This study explores the potential of using stories to communicate with children in therapy. The author seeks to show how - through encouraging the stories and participating in them - we can nurture... (more)
Forgotten children of the AIDS epidemic
This study looks at the issues facing children whose parents are dying of AIDS: what children experience; how it affects them; how their emotional needs can be met and second families found; and the... (more)
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development
During the past decade a diverse group of disciplines have simultaneously intensified their attention upon the scientific study of emotion. This proliferation of research on affective phenomena has... (more)
Students and dyslexia: Growing up with a specific learning difficulty
Drawn from a research study of university students with dyslexia, this book presents transcripts of interviews in which students give accounts of their experiences of growing up with dyslexia. It... (more)
Children's speech and literacy difficulties: A psycholinguistic framework
This work presents a systematic, hypothesis-testing approach to assessing phonological processing skills in children. Principles of psycholinguistic/cognitive neuropsychological testing are... (more)
Children with learning difficulties: a collaborative approach to their education:
Intended for those professionals whose work brings them into contact with children with learning difficulties, this work covers the theoretical rationale for the approaches used by each professional,... (more)
When a Baby Dies: Psychotherapy for Pregnancy and Newborn Loss
This is the first in-depth exploration of psychotherapy for those who have experienced the loss of a baby during pregnancy or in the first few weeks of life. Irving B. Leon integrates recent work on... (more)