Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Deprivation and Delinquency
An invaluable compilation of D.W. Winnicott's papers, talks, letters and lectures between 1930 and 1970, centred on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically... (more)
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness: Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's... (more)
Counselling and Supporting Children and Young People: A Person-centred Approach
This book is the ideal introduction to counselling and supporting children and young people. Taking a person-centred approach, Mark Prever offers readers a clear understanding of the theory and... (more)
Relational Trauma in Infancy: Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents. It makes an innovative contribution to the... (more)
The Infant's World
What do infants know? What do they feel, and how do they come to understand what's happening around them? How do they begin to construe others as persons with feelings and intentions? These questions... (more)
Through Assessment to Consultation: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Drawing from the Independent tradition in psychoanalysis, this book explores the application of psychoanalytic thinking to this work, reflecting on what is actually done and why. It provides a... (more)
Emotion-Regulating Play Therapy with ADHD Children: Staying with Playing
Drawing upon contemporary psychoanalytic thought, attachment theory, and the literature on children's emotional development, this book not only offers a novel conceptualization of ADHD but also a... (more)
Theory and Practice in Child Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to the Work of Francoise Dolto
During her lifetime Francoise Dolto revolutionized the psychoanalytic understanding of childhood. As an early pioneer, she emphasized that the child is to be recognized from birth as a person. As a... (more)
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy has emerged from the authors' and contributors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world. This model of... (more)
Understanding Your Young Child with Special Needs
Understanding Your Young Child with special needs" explores the developmental impact of disability on normal stages of child development, and examines the complex nature of the emotional bonds... (more)
Understanding 4-5-Year-Olds
Understanding 4-5-year-olds gives a thoughtful overview of the challenges that children face as they gradually move away from a strong attachment to their families and turn towards the wider world of... (more)
Playing the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Interviews with Children Using Winnicott's Squiggle Technique
This book argues that the squiggle game enables one in most cases to make contact with a child with particular ease. Often, if the child takes up the suggestion, an intense dialogue develops which... (more)
Signs of Autism in Infants: Recognition and Early Intervention
As a group, babies later diagnosed as autistic are found to have more complications during gestation and delivery than their normal siblings and others. In addition to all these complications,... (more)
The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Worlds: Vol. 1 Childhood
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents,... (more)
Talking About Domestic Abuse: A Photo Activity Workbook to Develop Communication Between Mothers and Young People
Talking About Domestic Abuse is an activity pack for children of 9 years and above and adolescents where families have experienced domestic abuse, to help and encourage them to open up to their... (more)
A Handbook of Play Therapy with Aggressive Children
This comprehensive compilation of specific and practical techniques is for child and play therapists to draw on in the treatment of aggressive children. The book is useful to new as well as seasoned... (more)
Sibling Relationships
For this volume, Prophecy Coles has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships. This exciting collection of papers addresses a... (more)
The First Relationship: Infant and Mother
Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, The First Relationship offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his... (more)
Can You Help Me? A Guide for Parents
This book is based on common questions that parents have about their children and their relationships with the world at large. Drawing from his extensive experience as a child psychoanalyst (and as a... (more)
What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children
This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders in Adolescents: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
Parent-Infant Psychodynamics: Wild Things, Mirrors and Ghosts
This text focuses on the interweaving psychic realities and unconscious dynamics between family members in the context of changing patterns of socio-cultural expectations, ethical considerations and... (more)
The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis
'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)
Improving Behaviour and Raising Self-esteem in the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Using Transactional Analysis
This work should help all teachers who face challenging behaviour in their classrooms. It offers support and guidance for dealing with issues of behaviour and makes suggestions for building creative... (more)
So the witch won't eat me: Fantasy and the Child's Fear of Infanticide
From work with children and adults, the author presents clinical evidence that for many, the fear of being killed by parents is dominant in early childhood and, although diminished and unconscious,... (more)
Separation and the Very Young
An account of the pioneering work of this uniquely influential couple. Covers topics such as: How do children feel when they are separated from their parents and familiar surroundings and what is it... (more)
