Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Teen Substance Use, Mental Health and Body Image: Practical Strategies for Support
A practical, up-to-date resource for schools on substance use. It covers drug and alcohol use, but importantly also tackles newer concerns for schools, such as the use of performance-enhancing drugs... (more)
The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children: What They Are and How to Help
Full of helpful information and advice, this is the perfect introduction for any adult parenting or caring for a child who has experienced attachment difficulties. (more)
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Handbook for Schools: Transforming Mental Health Support On A Budget
This book lays out an intuitive and practical approach to mental health and wellbeing that any school can adopt to transform their mental health support for students. With a focus on providing staff... (more)
Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction
Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the... (more)
Presley the Pug Relaxation Activity Book: A Therapeutic Story With Creative Activities to Help Children Aged 5-10 to Regulate Their Emotions and to Find Calm (Therapeutic Treasures Collection)
Like all dogs, Presley the Pug loves to play, run, and snuggle up under his warm blanket. But sometimes, Presley gets gets so excited that his feelings take over. Sometimes it's anger, sometimes... (more)
Positive Body Image in the Early Years: A Practical Guide
Promote positive body image, build self-esteem and tackle body confidence issues in young children with this practical guide. Over a quarter of childcare professionals have seen body confidence... (more)
How Can I Remember All That?: Simple Stuff to Improve Your Working Memory
Why can't I remember what my parents just asked me to do? Why do I feel stressed out at school when the teacher is writing on the board and talking at the same time? And what can I do about it?... (more)
Grandparenting the Children of Addicted Parents: Experiences and Wisdom for Kinship Carers
This is an accessible book on grandparenting children in cases where grandparents have become legally responsible for parenting a child in their family, often due to parental drug misuse or mental... (more)
Creative Coping Skills for Teens and Tweens: Activities for Self Care and Emotional Support including Art, Yoga, and Mindfulness
This photocopiable activity book helps teens and tweens who are feeling voiceless, ineffective or fearful in response to events at a world, community or individual level. It incorporates exercises... (more)
Cleo the Crocodile: Activity Book for Children Who Are Afraid to Get Close
Amongst the beauty of the Okavango delta in Botswana, Cleo the Crocodile loved having fun with all of his animal friends. That is, until one day Hogan the Hippo, who was supposed to look after Cleo,... (more)
Anxiety in Preschool Children: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Anxiety in Preschool Children provides a comprehensive, integrated, and scientifically current resource for both clinicians and researchers who work with or encounter anxiety in preschool-aged... (more)
Exposure Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Exposure therapy is highly effective for treating anxiety disorders in children and adolescents, yet implementation with youth and their parents entails unique challenges. Packed with clinical... (more)
Coaching Parents of Vulnerable Infants: The Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Approach
This is the authoritative presentation of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC), the widely disseminated, evidence-based home-visiting intervention for parents of infants who have experienced... (more)
Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed, and Different Children: A Guide for Professionals
In Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed, and Different Children, Eric Maisel provides clinicians with the tools they need to address the issues facing the parents of diagnosed children. In these... (more)
Time-Limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Developmentally-Focused Psychotherapy for Young People
Time-Limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Developmentally-Focused Psychotherapy for Young People will be an indispensable clinician's guide to the practice of Time-Limited Adolescent... (more)
Somatic Methods for Affect Regulation: A Clinician's Guide to Healing Traumatized Youth
Somatic Methods for Affect Regulation is a unique resource that presents a variety of approaches for working somatically with youth. Chapters provide an overview of the relevant neuroscience research... (more)
Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Creative and Play-Based Approaches
Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers mental health professionals an integration of creative and playful approaches and solution-focused therapy. The author presents... (more)
OCD - Tools to Help Young People Fight Back!: A CBT Manual for Therapists
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects approximately one in a hundred young people, and often makes it difficult to lead happy and productive lives. This manual from the distinguished Maudsley... (more)
Re-thinking Children's Work in Churches: A Practical Guide
Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage... (more)
The Recovery Mama Guide to Your Eating Disorder Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum
This book offers friendly, realistic advice to support pregnant women and new mothers struggling with changing body image, eating disorders or postpartum depression. Self-care tips and recovery tools... (more)
A Practitioners Guide to Enhancing Parenting Skills
A Practitioner's Guide to Enhancing Parenting Skills: Assessment, Analysis and Intervention offers a detailed and stepwise approach to problem behaviour analysis and management, based on the... (more)
Saying Goodbye: A Casebook of Termination in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Therapy
Termination of psychoanalysis or psychotherapy is centrally important both to the process of treatment and to the patient's experience of treatment. It is surprising, then, that there has heretofore... (more)
Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition
These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans... (more)
Creating Compassionate Kids: Essential Conversations to Have with Young Children
If you had to choose one word to describe the world you want children to grow up in, what would it be? Safe? Understanding? Resilient? Compassionate? As parents and caregivers of young... (more)
The Art of Working with Anxious Antagonistic Adolescents: Ways Forward for Frontline Professionals
This is a series of surprising and candid conversations held between veteran counsellor Nick Luxmoore and professionals working with young people. Based entirely on stories from the author's... (more)
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Workout for Teens
This easy-to-understand, engaging guide arms teens with healthy thinking habits and coping strategies for staying on top of their mental health. Using tried and tested therapeutic techniques, readers... (more)
Appearance Anxiety: A Guide to Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder for Young People Families and Professionals
The first book for teens that explains the causes and impact of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The book is interspersed with accounts and artwork from young people with BDD, along with perspectives... (more)
Parenting Traumatized Children with Developmental Differences: Strategies to Help Your Childs Sensory Processing Language Development Executive Function and Challenging Behaviours
hildren who have encountered trauma early in life can experience real differences in their social and cognitive development. This comprehensive guide introduces what such developmental difference... (more)
Supporting Vulnerable Children in Early Years: Practical Guidance and Strategies for Working with Children at Risk
Exploring specific experiences, circumstances and events that can put children at risk, this book provides practical guidance for early years practitioners working with vulnerable children. It covers... (more)
Can I Tell You About Being a Young Carer?: A Guide for Friends Family and Professionals
Meet Carly. Carly is a young person caring for her mother who has Multiple Sclerosis and depression. Part of the best-selling Can I Tell You about... series this book raises awareness about children... (more)