Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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.
Talking with mothers
This book is about being a mother - a pregnant mother and then a mother with a baby. The author attempts to stimulate and support the natural reflectiveness of the pregnant woman and her fears,... (more)
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)
The dialogue of touch
What the author calls 'capable touching' is the focus for this book. She believes that developmental play therapy builds both the self of the hurt child, and his or her appreciation of the nurturing... (more)
Construction and reconstruction of memory
This work addresses the controversy surrounding recovered memories of child abuse. Is it possible to know when such memories are true representations of what happened, when they are fantasies full of... (more)
Brainstorms: understanding and treating the emotional storms of ADHD and related disorders
Brainstorms are the brief moments of highly charged emotional states. Occurring frequently, they can be symptoms of an underlying neuropsychiatric disorder. This text explores how to understand and... (more)
Working with parents: establishing the essential alliance in child psychotherapy
Many child therapists face problems with their patients' parents: some are threatened by change in their child and remove him or her from treatment, others do not participate or co-operate. In this... (more)
Saying Goodbye in Child Psychotherapy - planned, unplanned, & prematur
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Play therapy: a comprehensive guide
This treatment guide describes various approaches for treating children brought to play therapy. Based on research and case studies, the work looks at children with varying problems, including those... (more)
The mother-daughter relationship: echoes through time
This work explores aspects and echoes of the mother-daughter bond within the life-cycle, from development, to adolescence, marriage and maternity, and finally to reparative opportunities inherent in... (more)
A Handbook of Integrative Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents
This text brings together concepts and methods from psychodynamic, behavioural, cognitive and developmental perspectives, in order to provide an integrative conceptual model and therapeutic approach... (more)
How to cope with a teenage drinker: changing adolescent alcohol abuse
Alcohol abuse has reached epidemic proportions in the US in recent years, with youngsters starting to drink earlier than ever - typically at the age of 13 or 14. This book is addressed primarily to... (more)
The borderline child: Etiology, diagnosis and treatment
This text covers a wide range of approaches to children labelled 'borderline'. The array of perspectives from the authoritative clinicians represented in this book includes descriptive, biochemical,... (more)
Parents as therapeutic partners: Listening to your child's play
This text aims to teach parents how to conduct play therapy with their young children. Parents who take their children for psychotherapy often feel they are to blame for their children's problems,... (more)
Child Abuse, Psychotherapy and the Law: Bearing the Unbearable
Those working with families in the field of child abuse often find themselves becoming intimately involved with family law. A legal framework can aid those working in the field, and a... (more)
The Healing Drama
Beginning with the notion of play and its importance for children, the author discusses how children use play as a method of investigation and rehearsal for reality. Therapeutic work is covered in... (more)