Child and Adolescent Studies Books
My Son Is an Alien:
This work takes a look at cultural influences on teenagers and adolescents. Based on interviews with teens, pre-teens, and parents, it sketches out a facet of the adolescent's cultural portrait, from... (more)
Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour
This title provides practitioners with a conceptual basis for understanding children's disruptive behaviour and its relationship to parenting behaviour. There is also a framework and materials that... (more)
Constructing a Language: A Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition
Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. Grammar emerges as the speakers of the language create... (more)
Children of Immigration:
In the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, America is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role (more)
Creative Therapy for Children in New Families:
The aim of this book is to encourage creativity in therapy with children who have changed families, for example through fostering or adoption. It contains a broad range of activities designed to help... (more)
Communicating Without Speech:
Designed for .clinicians, therapists and other professionals who treat and support non-speaking children. (more)
Playing Hard at Life: A Relational Approach to Treating Multiply Traumatized Adolescents
This volume comprises three parts: on the road to survival; the evolution of the transference-countertransference; and finding a treatment plan. (more)
Development and Disability:
Previously entitled "Development and Handicap", this work reviews research on the development of blind children, deaf children, and children with spina bifida, cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome and... (more)
Handbook of Conceptualization and Treatment of Child Psychopathology:
Linking practical experience with theory, this handbook examines and illustrates the integration of conceptualization and treatment of child and adolescent psychopathology. Conceptual models and... (more)
Infants, Toddlers, and Families: A Framework for Support and Intervention
This volume aims to provide a developmentally sound framework for strengths-based family intervention in the first three years of life. The volume is filled with suggestions for building positive... (more)
Causes of Delinquency
An investigation into the causes of delinquency. It attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations,... (more)
Dangerous Adolescents, Model Adolescents: Shaping the Role and Promise of Education
This project is an attempt to understand what kind of environment today's adolescents need and what teachers, parents, and communities can do to address those needs. It examines how adolescents and... (more)
PTSD in Children and Adolescents
A study of posttraumatic stress disorder in children and adolescents. It seeks to offer fresh perspectives on major topics in the field, including: techniques for evaluation; forensic aspects of... (more)
Theories of Infant Development
Infancy research is one of the hottest areas in developmental psychology, with contemporary advances in brain imaging techniques allowing psychologists to investigate what is happening in an infant's... (more)
Child psychology:
The 3rd edition of this title has been thoroughly revised and updated to provide readers with a scholarly review of research in child psychopathology and development combined with practical... (more)
Paths to Successful Development: Personality in the Life Course
This important new book explores the relationship between personality and development from a life-course perspective. (more)
Children's reasoning and mind:
This volume offers a thorough investigation into the development of the cognitive processes that underpin judgements about mental states (often termed "theory of mind") and addresses specific issues... (more)
Social Processes in Children's Learning
Examining children's learning and problem-solving behaviour, this book explores the ways in which interactions between children influence learning outcomes. It places the topic in a broad theoretical... (more)
Developmental Science:
Details the new, cross-disciplinary synthesis, as formulated by the Carolina Consortium on Human Development. (more)
Beyond appearance: a new look at adolescent girls:
This volume seeks to present a balanced view of teenage girls. It reviews and assesses research on girls from a variety of racial, ethnic and socio- economic backgrounds, searching for commonalities... (more)
Non-attendance at School
This series provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with contemporary information on adolescents' problems. They are for use in assessment and... (more)
Panic disorder and anxiety in adolescence:
This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and up-to-date information on adolescents' problems.... (more)
Delinquency and young offenders
This series provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with contemporary information on adolescents' problems. It is for use in assessment and... (more)
Aggression and bullying
This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and up-to-date information on adolescents' problems.... (more)