Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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)
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)
Changing Behaviour
This new edition addresses the skills and strategies needed to support the emotional needs of pupils within the National Curriculum framework and school-improvement agenda. Many of the activities in... (more)
Attack on the self: adolescent behavioral disturbances and their treatment:
Argues that adolescents who wage war on their own lives can be successfully treated. Topics covered include: adolescent sexual disorders; adolescent suicide; adolescent violence and predatory... (more)
Children communicating: The first five years
Offering a focus on the development of human communication, this text incorporates materials dealing with the development of nonverbal communication, language, and cognition, and examines how they... (more)
Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional: A Guidebook
The "Story Books for Troubled Children" series is designed to help children who are troubled in their lives. The stories act as vehicles to encourage children to think about and connect with their... (more)
Psychoses of the schizophrenic spectrum in twins: A discussion on the nature-nurture debate in the etiology of endogenous psychoses
Contradictory results in schizophrenia research are due to genetic heterogeneity and multiple factor heredity in relationship to environmental factors. This text examines twin studies on... (more)
Psychotherapy of sexually abused children and their families:
A guide to the evaluation and treatment of sexually abused children. Starting with a broad theoretical basis, this book assesses the affect of abuse on the children's cognitive, behavioural and... (more)
Touch in early development
This volume features presentations made at a "Touch In Infancy" symposium which focussed on infant development. Designed to conduct basic research on touch and on the skin, topics include massage... (more)
Children talk about the mind:
The text charts the early developmental stages in children's growing awareness and understanding of mind. More than 12,000 conversations by children between the ages of one and a half and six have... (more)
Progress in infancy research:
This volume presents the syntheses of theory and research on infants development, both human and animal, for researchers in developmental psychology and neuroscience. (more)
Developmental Health
Probing the effects of the social environment upon human development, this volume asks how one can best support the health and well-being of infants and children in an era of rapid economic and... (more)
Child and adolescent behaviour problems: A multidisciplinary approach to assessment and intervention
The evidence that many children's behavioural difficulties have their origins in the earliest years of their lives continues to accumulate. This book outlines the challenges of working in a... (more)
The foundation of literacy: The child's acquisition of the alphabetic principle
This monograph brings together research that the author and his colleagues at the University of New England have been conducting into the early stages of reading development. It is written in an... (more)
Challenging behaviour: Principles and practice
This volume focuses on working with people who have challenging behaviours from staff from all professions, but also parents, relatives and friends. It discusses what to do in challenging situations,... (more)
The gift of a child: A guide to donor insemination
Contains clear, non-technical information about childlessness caused by male infertility, and about how this childlessness can be resolved by the use of donor insemination. This book draws on the... (more)
Innovative psychotherapy techniques in child and adolescent therapy:
This is a comprehensive sourcebook of innovative techniques in the rapidly growing field of child and adolescent therapy. The emphasis is on clinical practice - and the techniques that have been... (more)