Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Working with families of children with special needs: Partnership and practice
The importance of a partnership between professionals and the parents of children with special needs is now well established in legislation and professional circles. However there has been an... (more)
Loners: The Life Path of Unusual Children
This work discusses the nature and origins of children's abilities and difficulties and compares them with autism, Asperger's syndrome, and schizoid / schizotypal personality disorders. 208 pages.
Beyond blame: Child abuse tragedies revisited
Summarizes the major inquiries into child sexual abuse. It includes 35 reports available since 1973, which are examined and set in their social context. 208 pages.
Work with Parents: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Drawing on the rich range and depth of the clinical experience of the contributors, this welcome volume will be a valuable tool for clinicians and trainees. The authors share a powerful commitment to... (more)
Parenting Teenagers
A guide for anyone filling the parental role - either temporarily or permanently. Myers explains how to maintain, repair and strengthen relationships with teenagers. He encourages adults to take... (more)
Child Abuse and Child Abusers: Protection and Prevention
Provides a current picture of the success, fairness and significance of child protection services. It approaches the problem of child abuse through the different perspectives of those affected; and... (more)
Systemic Approaches to Training in Child Protection
This book contributes to the debate on child sexual abuse and illuminates the trainer practitioner in the process. It shows that human services training is not built solely on scientific theory but... (more)
A primer on integrating psychotherapies for children and adolescents:
A comprehensive primer in child and adolescent psychotherapy, this text brings together concepts and methods from psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive, and developmental perspectives.
Group Therapy With Troubled Youth: A Cognitive Behavioral Interactive Approach:
The author offers practical strategies for treating adolescents in a variety of group settings. He incorporates cognitive, behavioural, and social resources along with small group theory into one... (more)
Facing It Out: Clinical Perspectives on Adolescent Disturbance
Based on the wealth of experience gathered in the forty years of the life of the Adolescent Department at the Clinic, this covers a full range of clinical work with some of the most difficult areas... (more)
Studies of childhood
Sully was an eminent figure of early English psychology during the first decades of the twentieth century. This charming early study of childhood covers categories that are of interest today: play... (more)
The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives
Drawing on Jung's concept of individuation, Richard Frankel provides an introduction to the theory and practice of adolescent psychology. His advice and guidelines should be of interest to anyone... (more)