Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Wednesday's Child: Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood, and Adult Depression
This volume argues that as many as one in four women have suffered neglect or abuse in childhood, doubling the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. It examines the reasons... (more)
Psychotherapy with Severely Deprived Children
This study describes the experience of severely deprived children referred for individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and at other clinics and schools. Most were... (more)
Child abuse - Implications for child development and psychopathology
The author describes the different types of child abuse and discusses the influence they have on the emotional, cognitive, academic and social development and its consequences in childhood and... (more)
Anxiety and Depression in Adults and Children
This cohesive study focuses on recent advances in treating anxiety and depression in adults and children. Topics covered include self-management therapy, assessing and treating sexually abused... (more)
Sexually Aggressive Children
Accessible and sensitive, this book provides a comprehensive overview of sexual abuse perpetrated by children 12 years old and younger. Drawing attention to this frequently overlooked population, the... (more)
Unhappy children: Reasons and remedies
When children's emotional needs are not met, they become unhappy. This text reveals their distress - both at home and at school - and its expression through fear, anxiety and often troublesome... (more)
Solution Focused Thinking in Schools
This book provides simple methods and ideas for finding solutions to problems in a school context, such as classroom disruption or helping a child begin to read after years of failing to progress.... (more)
The Child Psychotherapist and Problems of Young People
Many parents at some time dread that a child of theirs may be mentally ill or disturbed. But even after a generation of child psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, they still frequently fear to... (more)
Intuition Is Not Enough: Matching Learning With Practice in Therapeutic Child Care
Designed as a guide for trainers and academic staff, as well as for practitioners working with the most disturbed children and young people, this book seeks to explore the connections between the... (more)
Parallel Psychotherapy With Children and Parents
This text proposes a model for the parallel treatment of severely disturbed children and their mothers. This method mandates adjacent therapy by separate practitioners, with a common supervisor, who... (more)
Growth and Risk in Infancy
This work uses case studies of 'potential risk' children, vulnerable to developmental problems in their home environment. It assesses whether a method can be used to predict accurately infant... (more)