Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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.
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)
Too long a child: the mother-daughter dyad
The mother-daughter relationship is central to every woman's life. This is the history of the drama at the heart of that intense loe-hate relationship, told through letters, diaries, writings and... (more)
Counselling Young People
Based on the author's experience as psychotherapist and counsellor, this book provides an approachable introduction to the field of counselling young people for anyone undertaking counselling within... (more)
Psychotic States in Children
Developments in the understanding and psychotherapeutic treatment of children and adolescents suffering from psychotic levels of disturbance are dealt with in this work, from the Tavistock Clinic... (more)
Handbook of Play Therapy: Vol. 2: Advances and Innovations
An in-depth look at state-of-the-art play therapy practices and principles. While it updates readers on significant advances in sand play diagnosis, theraplay, group play, and other well-known... (more)
The Healing Power of Play
Abused and traumatized children have special therapeutic needs. This book focuses on the impact of trauma and how to help children achieve a positive resolution. Issues such as facilitating and... (more)
The World of Adolescence: Literature, Society and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
This text addresses three literary works with adolescence in mind: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin. These set the stage for the clinical material... (more)
Therapy and consultation in child care
310 pages.
Cognitive development therapy with children: Helping children to help themselves
This volume is a guide to the application of cognitive therapy to child problems, with particular focus on self-control methods, and on the author's model for working with children, in family and... (more)
Child Psychotherapy - From Initial Therapeutic Contact to Termination
Designed for both clinicians and informed parents, this work addresses the issues therapists encounter in dealing with children. It covers the initial contact and session, therapeutic setting and... (more)