Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Becoming Anna
A sixteen-year-old writes powerfully about the physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents and grandmother. 256 pages. (more)
Unspeakable Acts
Victims, survivors, and their supporters want to know how and why people can sexually assault and terrorise children who love and trust them. This book provides a vivid and reliable answer and is an... (more)
Counselling children with chronic medical conditions:
A practical manual of counselling skills for working with children with chronic medical and physical conditions. The book explores the child's understanding of their body and illness, how to... (more)
Typical and atypical development: From Conception to Adolescence
This is a reference work on child development up to the age of eight years. Covering the main features of physiology, cognitive, emotional, and language development in normal children, using an... (more)
The Continuum Concept
The "continuum" is the whole of our environment, from family to society to species. Liedloff's encounters with South American Indians lead her to redefine western people's relationship to their... (more)
Effective intervention in primary schools: Nurture groups
This work shows how primary schools can cost-effectively enable children from damaging backgrounds to have real access to a full curriculum through 'nurture groups'. It draws on experience of these... (more)
Multiaxial classification of child and adolescent psychiatric disorder: The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents
By regulating the order and number of conditions to be recorded in the treatment of a psychiatric patient, ICD-10 - a multiaxial framework - provides for internationally comparable descriptions of... (more)
Cognition in children:
This textbook aims to provide a selective, but representative, review of work in cognitive development, grouped around themes that are familiar from textbooks of adult cognition. The book focuses on... (more)
Psychology, Discourse and Social Practice: From Regulation to Resistance
Written by expert practitioner-researchers, this co-authoured book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its 'expert' knowledge to turn social marginalism into pathology. 208... (more)
Uncommon understanding: Development and disorders of language comprehension in children
This work focuses on children with specific language impairments within the context of language comprehension, but also examines normal development. It provides a research and theory framework that... (more)
Minefields in their hearts: The mental health of children in war and communal violence
Events such as the Holocaust and civil war in Bosnia pose special problems for those helping children make sense of acts that endanger them physically and psychically. In this text, two mental health... (more)
Child welfare 1872-1989:
This work is concerned with the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children. 372 pages.
Adolescence: Guiding youth through the perilous ordeal
This work presents a framework for adolescence as a developmental period, and surveys current concepts and research. It covers normal neurological, physical and reproductive development, and provides... (more)
Cycles of child maltreatment: Facts, fallacies and interventions
Focusing on physical abuse, neglect and emotional abuse, this book examines the facts and the fallacies surrounding the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment. It takes as its central... (more)
Culture and the child: A guide for professionals in child care and development
A practical guide for those professionals dealing with children whose cultural backgrounds differ from those of the mainstream society in which they live. The central theme of this book is the role... (more)
The child in question
Drawing on personal, historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, literary and artistic sources, this compelling book explores the tensions and contradictions implicit in notions of children and... (more)
I'm Only Bleeding: Education as the practice of social violence agains
An examination of the violence that education presently practices on children. Using a paradigm steeped in object relations theory, psychoanalytic practice and recent research in neuroscience, the... (more)
Children in distress: A guide for screening children's art
The authors have developed a method of using art to communicate with children who have been traumatised, and who cannot talk about their experiences. 144 pages.
The dilemma of ritual abuse: cautions and guides for therapists
This text offers balanced advice on approaches therapists can use when patients or clients report they have experienced ritual abuse. Chapters deal with psychological and pharmacological treatment... (more)
Confident Children: Help Children Feel Good About Themselves
In our increasingly competitive world, personal confidence is a prerequisite for success and confident children with a positive outlook have a much better chance to grow into successful,... (more)