Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Group Work with Children and Adolescents
A comprehensive resource manual, this book looks at the theory and development of group work as a form of therapy, the settings in which group work may be used, and effective therapeutic methods. 345... (more)
A History of Child Psychoanalysis
Traces the history and development of child psychoanalysis from its birth in Vienna to its present status as a thriving discipline, practiced on an international scale. The authors argue that a... (more)
Understanding Your One-Year-Old
How does a one-year-old's mind and personality develop and grow? How does your role as a parent change when your baby starts to walk, talk and really explore the world around her? How do you support... (more)
Attachment theory: Social, developmental and clinical perspectives
This volume is the outcome of a conference for developmental researchers and clinicians to explore the implications of knowledge of attachment. Approaches to the understanding of clinical topics such... (more)
Turmoil to turning points: Building hope for children in crisis placements
Provides a practical view of what can be done to help children in families where crisis and violence have become the norm. This book incorporates stories of trauma and change which have lead to a... (more)
Working with Children in Art Therapy
A collection of papers by ten art therapists working in the major child care agencies - health, education, and social services. Each paper describes a different theoretical perspective and clinical... (more)
Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond
This is the second monograph published by Karnac Books on behalf of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown. Drawing on the Centre's unique pool of expertise in the... (more)
Working with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Elsa Jones, working from the Family Institute in Cardiff, has been treating adult survivors of child sexual and physical abuse for several years, and she has clearly and frankly described her work in... (more)
Transforming Hate to Love: An Outcome Study of the Peper Harow Treatment Process for Adolescence
The Peper Harow residential community was founded in 1970 and gained repute for its pioneering work with disturbed adolescents. This text assesses Peper Harow's success in managing disturbed... (more)
Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and Their Families
Describes a basic theory of collaborative narrative play, as well as verbal and nonverbal techniques which can lead to stories of hope, possibility and change. The author provides case examples which... (more)
The Psychological Birth of the Human Infant: Symbiosis and Individuation
'The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time. The former is a dramatic, observable, and well-circumscribed event; the latter a... (more)
Children's Phantasies: The Shaping of Relationships
Otto Weininger illustrates the manifestations of unconscious phantasy in children - normal, neurotic or psychotic - in various settings such as playgroups, ordinary schools or special schools for... (more)
Extending Horizons: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents and Families
Extending Horizons presents a wide-ranging collection of papers by leading practitioners in the field of analytic psychotherapy with children and young people, surveying recent developments in... (more)
The Uses of Enchantment
Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses... magic forests and enchanted towers... little pigs and big bad wolves... Fairy tales have been an integral part of childhood for hundreds of years. But... (more)
The Earliest Relationship: Parents, Infants and the Drama of Early Attachment
T. Berry Brazelton, world renowned pediatrician and expert on infant development, and Bertrand Cramer, pioneer in mother-infant psychotherapy, have combined their lifetimes of research and practice... (more)
Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents. Part of the EFPP... (more)
Memorial candles: Children of the Holocaust
A moving and revealing insight into the treatment of children of Holocaust victims. The author, drawing on over twenty years of experience, describes how these children often need professional help... (more)
Therapeutic Consultations in Child Psychiatry
Over a period of several decades, D.W. Winnicott evolved a personal way of relating to and communicating with children, offering them a live professional setting in which to discover themselves. He... (more)
The Piggle: The Account of the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Little Girl
On 16 occasions, from the age of two until the age of five, 'the Piggle' - a little girl seriously disturbed by the birth of a younger sister - visited Dr Winnincott. This is an account of her... (more)
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
When The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense was first published in German in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology, and its translation into English... (more)
The Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott
This volume consists of the collected letters of D. W. Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the generation following Freud. Suspicious of dogma and deeply committed to the value... (more)
Psychological Processes of Childbearing
Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the... (more)