Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Children in Care in Colombia: Disturbed Family Contexts and Psychic Structure
This book documents research and therapeutic work carried out with children and adolescents living in social care or disturbed family circumstances in Bogota, Colombia. The children, aged from two... (more)
Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: The FIRST Program for Behavioral and Emotional Problems
Presenting a fresh approach to child and adolescent therapy, this book identifies five principles at the heart of the most potent evidence-based treatments--and shows how to apply them. Clinicians... (more)
OCD in Children and Adolescents: The "OCD Is Not the Boss of Me" Manual
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this user-friendly manual presents a tested treatment protocol for children and adolescents (ages 6 to 18) struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder... (more)
Youth Mental Health: A Paradigm for Prevention and Early Intervention
Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders.
Mental illness represents one of the largest disease burdens worldwide, yet treatments... (more)
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership - in particular, the felt experience of life as a... (more)
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Mindfulness has grown in popularity exponentially over the past two decades, and many educators, therapists and other youth professionals are asked to teach mindfulness in a variety of public... (more)
The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health
This book both explains and illustrates how the practice of child mental health professionals can be enhanced, whatever their treatment approach, to encourage engagement, resilience and development... (more)
Evaluating Educational Interventions: Single-Case Design for Measuring Response to Intervention
This innovative guide is now in a revised and expanded second edition with an even stronger applied focus. It helps educators harness the potential of single-case design (SCD) as a critical element... (more)
Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Models, Programs, and Practice
Infant Play Therapy is a groundbreaking resource for practitioners interested in the varied play therapy theories, models, and programs available for the unique developmental needs of infants and... (more)
Reflective Practice in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Listening to Young People
Therapy referrals for a child or young person can be motivated for a number of reasons. The parents, carers or professionals responsible for their wellbeing might describe a sudden change in... (more)
Understanding, Nurturing and Working Effectively with Vulnerable Children in Schools
In times of increasing pressure on schools and teachers, it is essential that teachers are equipped to understand the emotional and relational factors in learning and teaching. Vulnerable and... (more)
What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers
What to Say to Kids When Nothing Seems to Work offers parents an effective, step-by-step guide to some of the most common struggles for kids aged 5-12. Written by mental health professionals with... (more)
A for Adoption: An Exploration of the Adoption Experience for Families and Professionals
The experience of adoption, both adopting and being adopted, can stir up deep emotional pain, often related to loss and early trauma. A for Adoption provides insight and support to those families and... (more)
Neurodevelopmental Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Mindfulness
This innovative book explains and introduces the use of mindfulness in therapeutic work with parents and babies, covering issues such as feeding, crying, sleeping and relating, as well as other... (more)
Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth: A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents
Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth highlights the paradigm shift to treating children and adolescents as "at-promise" rather than "at-risk." By utilizing a strength-based model that moves in... (more)
The Handbook of Therapeutic Care for Children: Evidence-Informed Approaches to Working with Traumatized Children and Adolescents in Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Care
This innovative book brings together a wide range of therapeutic approaches, techniques and models to outline recent developments in the practice of supporting children in out-of-home care. It sheds... (more)
Healthy Mindsets for Little Kids: A Resilience Programme to Help Children Aged 5 – 9 with Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Body Image, Conflict, Discipline, Empathy and Self-Esteem
This flexible, early-intervention programme utilises hands-on activities and worksheets to address behaviour issues and teach core resilience skills in children aged 5-9. Based around ten guided... (more)
Binnie the Baboon Anxiety and Stress Activity Book: A Therapeutic Story with Creative and CBT Activities To Help Children Aged 5-10 Who Worry
Binnie is a creative and energetic baboon, who bounces around the lush green mountains of Rwanda in East Africa. But like many of us, Binnie often feels worried and stressed, and these worries can... (more)
OCD - Tools to Help You Fight Back!: A CBT Workbook for Young People
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects approximately one in a hundred young people, and often makes it difficult to lead happy and productive lives. Structured as a flexible 14-session... (more)
High-Impact Assessment Reports for Children and Adolescents: A Consumer-Responsive Approach
Assessment provides rich opportunities for understanding the needs of children and adolescents, yet reports are often hard for parents, teachers, and other consumers to comprehend and utilize. This... (more)
Lost Childhoods: The Plight Of The Parentified Child
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (more)
Everyday Parenting with Security and Love
Everyday Parenting with Security and Love offers parents and carers an introduction to caring for children who struggle to form emotional bonds. (more)
Tuning In Music Book: Sixty-Four Songs for Children with Complex Needs and Visual Impairment to Promote Language, Social Interaction and Wider Development
Containing 64 songs designed to promote language, social and musical development, this book accompanies the Tuning In Cards so you can perform the songs and integrate the activities into your own... (more)
Wise Words: How Susan Isaacs Changed Parenting
"Harassed" writes: "Your answers to correspondents are exceedingly clear, and when I read them I say, `That is just the answer I should think of', though I believe I should have great difficulty when... (more)
Dyslexia and Literacy: Theory and Practice
A comprehensive introduction suitable for all professionals who need to know about dyslexia in children. The book starts with five chapters covering the various theoretical perspectives and then... (more)
Bringing Up a Boy: The Men They Will Become
How should we bring up boys? How can we understand and get on better with them? Eli H. Newberger is a distinguished paediatricians, and in this book he shows us how to nurture, encourage and... (more)
The Reading Bug: And How You Can Help Your Child to Catch It
Written in a humorous style, this book explains how readers can open the world through a love of books. The author has cut through the jargon and the controversies to reveal the simple truths which... (more)