Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Chronic childhood disease: An introduction to psychological theory and research
The author draws extensively on the published research findings in child health psychology, and also on her own experience of working with paediatric medical and nursing staff. The emphasis... (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)
Mollie is three: Growing up in school
Traces the development of a three-year-old nursery school student, looks at how young children use fantasy play to help make sense of the world, and describes interactions between three- and... (more)
Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention
Eighteen chapters have been added to the second edition of this handbook, which serves as a core text for students and experienced professionals who are interested in the health and well being of... (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)
Helping Children Who Yearn for Someone they Love: A Guidebook to The Frog who Longed for the Moon to Smile
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)
Group counselling and psychotherapy with adolescents:
This handbook offers an overview of group dynamic theory and the essentials for adolescent group work in a variety of locations, including schools, clinics and family violence programmes. The text... (more)
Ritalin Nation: Rapid-fire culture and the transformation of human conciousness
A critical investigation into the epidemic of Attention Deficit Disorder and its most widely prescribed treatment, Ritalin. (more)
The psychological assessment of abused and traumatized children:
This text offers a clinical paradigm for the personality assessment of abused or traumatized children via projective instruments - the TAT and Rorschach. It also draws on both theory and clinical... (more)
Infant development: essential readings: The essential readings
This work provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by researchers in this area of developmental psychology. (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)