Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape
From Jay Griffiths, the author of the award-winning Wild comes a passionate polemic defence of childhood
'Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary' Philip Pullman
In Kith, Jay Griffiths... (more)
Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders: Attachment, Trauma, Theory and Practice
This book provides a comprehensive overview of research into dissociation in children and adolescents and challenges conventional ideas about complex behaviours.
Offering a new perspective to... (more)
Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect: Component-Based Psychotherapy
Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-informed framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those... (more)
From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination
This fully updated new edition of From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children. Based on... (more)
The Development of the High Ability Child: Psychological Perspectives on Giftedness
This valuable text will help readers to understand the physical, social, and cognitive development of high ability children. Written by experts in the fields of education and psychology, each chapter... (more)
Mary Sheridan's From Birth to Five Years: Children's Developmental Progress
This new edition of a classic text is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children. It provides the knowledge required for understanding children's... (more)
Becoming a Digital Parent: A Practical Guide to Help Families Navigate Technology
Becoming a Digital Parent is a practical, readable guide that will help all parents have confidence to successfully navigate technology with their children. It accessibly presents evidence-based... (more)
Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults
The significantly revised second edition of this unique practitioner guide features 65% new material and a new organizing structure. The authors show how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have... (more)
Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad... (more)
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Picture Book and Guidebook Set
This beautifully illustrated picture book and guidebook set offers a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its legacies, with a focus on dissociation and DID. Written with clinical accuracy,... (more)
Growing Up Resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC)
It is universally accepted that sensitive and responsive caregiving leads to positive cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes for children. While several intervention approaches exist, this text... (more)
What Young People Want from Mental Health Services: A Youth Informed Approach for the Digital Age
Young people experience one of the highest rates of mental health problems of any group, but make the least use of the support available to them. To reach young people in distress, we need to... (more)
Assessment and Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Young Children: A Practical Guide
This essential guide is a research-based practical handbook for assessing global developmental delay and other neurodevelopmental disorders in young children. It explains diagnostic, support, and... (more)
Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories: Interventions for Therapists, Children, and Their Caregivers
Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their... (more)
Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools: Tavistock Approaches
This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers, and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools.
The book begins... (more)
The Pregnancy and Postpartum Mood Workbook: The Guide to Surviving Your Emotions When Having a Baby
This book helps you throughout your pregnancy and postpartum/postnatal recovery. By helping you understand what you are feeling, and teaching you empirically validated new skills so you can manage... (more)
Toxic Childhood Stress: The Legacy of Early Trauma and How to Heal
*Previously published as The Deepest Well*
'Finally after thirty years, I finally understood . . . this book holds the answers you've been searching for.' Kerry Hudson
The Surgeon General... (more)
Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior: School-Based Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention
This comprehensive resource--now revised and expanded--provides school practitioners with an evidence-based framework for preventing and effectively responding to youth suicidal behavior. David N.... (more)
The Child Survivor: Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation
In this second edition of Joyanna Silberg's classic The Child Survivor, practitioners who treat dissociative children will find practical tools that are backed up by recent advances in clinical... (more)
Life and Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children
For decades, Life and Loss has been the book clinicians have relied on for a full and nuanced presentation of the many issues with which grieving children grapple, as well as an honest exploration of... (more)
Multi-Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa: A Treatment Manual
Multi-Family Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa is a treatment manual that details an empirically supported and innovative treatment for this disorder.
This book provides a detailed description of the... (more)
The Development of Empathy: Phenomenology, Structure and Human Nature
This thought-provoking volume offers psychological perspectives on the formation of empathy and how this determines both antisocial and prosocial behaviors in individuals. It offers a theoretically... (more)
Treatment of Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
Now completely revised (over 90% new), this definitive practitioner reference and course text comprehensively reviews evidence-based treatments for psychological disorders in children and... (more)
Mentalizing in Child Therapy: Guidelines for Clinical Practitioners: Second Edition
Mentalizing in Child Therapy focuses on open-ended psychotherapy for children with complex mental health issues and attachment problems. It offers examples of personalized and integrated treatment... (more)
Child to Parent Aggression and Violence: A Guidebook for Parents and Practitioners
Parent-directed aggression and violence by children is a complex issue and may not be explained by focusing upon a single factor. The affected parents tend to delay seeking help from professionals... (more)
Solution Focused Coaching for Adolescents: Overcoming Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Solution Focused Coaching for Adolescents explains the principles and attitude of the popular 11-step, Mission Possible, Solution Focused Coaching program for working with adolescents.
By... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents: A Practical Treatment Guide
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A)is a practical guide for child and adolescent mental health professionals to help enhance their knowledge, skills and practice.
The book... (more)
The Baby and the Drive: Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants
The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identification of difficulties and intervention with babies and their... (more)
Parenting Across Cultures from Childhood to Adolescence: Development in Nine Countries
This vital volume advances understanding of how parenting from childhood to adolescence changes or remains the same in a variety of sociodemographic, psychological, and cultural contexts, providing a... (more)
Parents as Partners in Child Therapy: A Clinician's Guide
This book addresses a key need for child therapists--how to actively involve parents in treatment and give them tools to support their child's healthy development. Known for her innovative, creative... (more)