Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Supporting Vulnerable Babies and Young Children: Interventions for Working with Trauma, Mental Health, Illness and Other Complex Challenges
The diverse challenges that clinicians and children's workers tasked with safeguarding babies and young children face are complex, and this unique book looks at effective, practice-based and... (more)
The Anxiety Survival Guide: Getting through the Challenging Stuff
Co-written with psychologists and a college student who has experienced anxiety herself, this is a relatable and straightforward guide to managing worry in emerging adulthood. As well as providing... (more)
The Fast Track Program for Children at Risk: Preventing Antisocial Behavior
This unique volume reports on the largest long-term preventive intervention study ever conducted with children at risk for serious violence and poor life outcomes. From first through 10th grade, Fast... (more)
Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
By offering unique analysis and synthesis of theory, empirical research, and clinical guidance in an up-to-date and unbiased context, this book assists health and social care professionals in... (more)
Understanding Conduct Disorder and Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
This vital guide takes a new approach to conduct and oppositional defiant disorders (CD and ODD), presenting the science in an accessible way to empower both parents and practitioners. Vanzin and... (more)
Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents
Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and... (more)
Self-Compassion for Parents: Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself
"I yelled at the kids again--and feel so ashamed." "I barely have time to shower, let alone exercise; no wonder I'm so out of shape." "I'm just not the dad I hoped I would be." Parenting is hard.... (more)
The Positive Parenting Handbook: Developing happy and confident children
Drawing on Judy Hutchings many years of work with parents and children, The Positive Parenting Handbook is a concise, straightforward guide that offers simple solutions to daily dilemmas. The clear... (more)
Parent-Led CBT for Child Anxiety: Helping Parents Help Their Kids
Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book shows clinicians how to teach parents... (more)
Principles of Effective Parenting: How Socialization Works
Grounded in pioneering research, this authoritative text examines the parenting strategies that help children and adolescents develop into productive, happy members of society. Joan Grusec gives... (more)
Stand Up to OCD!: A CBT Self-Help Guide and Workbook for Teens
Stand up to OCD! Imagine each person's brain has a captain and crew. For a person struggling with OCD, it's as if OCD has kidnapped the captain and changed the settings in the brain. Luckily there... (more)
Counseling at the Beginning: Interventions and Issues in Infancy and Early Childhood
Counseling at the Beginning is a thorough, practice-based guide for counselors who serve the mental health needs of very young children and their families. Chapters based on current developmental... (more)
Coping with the Death of a Child: An Integrated Clinical Approach to Working with Bereaved Families
Coping with the Death of a Child shows clinicians how to integrate various therapeutic modalities and clinical approaches to grief therapy into one comprehensive model linked to positive... (more)
Treating Chronically Traumatized Children
When children refuse or seem unable to talk about their traumatic memories, it might be tempting to `let sleeping dogs lie'. However, if left untreated, the memories of childhood abuse and neglect... (more)
Child Anxiety Disorders
Childhood anxiety disorders represent one of the most common psychological disorders found among the general population. They can be serious, distressful, and functionally impairing, so much so that... (more)
Treating Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders
From a leading addiction specialist, this highly practical book explores what works in treating adolescents. Oscar G. Bukstein answers the clinician's vital question: "What do I do now?" He describes... (more)
Identity in Adolescence: Fourth edition: The Balance between Self and Other
This fully revised fourth edition of Identity in Adolescence: The Balance Between Self and Other presents four theoretical perspectives on identity development during adolescence and young adulthood... (more)
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy: Findings from Qualitative Research
New Discoveries in Child Psychotherapy presents eleven new findings in child psychoanalytic research, most of them based on the experience of the clinical consulting room. Each chapter is the work of... (more)
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education: Psychoanalytic, Attachment, and Developmental Perspectives
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education presents various theories of play and demonstrates how it serves communicative, developmental, and relational functions, highlighting the... (more)
Using Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
There is growing evidence for the powerful role that music plays in enhancing children's cognitive, social, and emotional development. This is the first book to provide accessible ways for any mental... (more)
You Can Change the World!: Everyday Teen Heroes Making a Difference Everywhere
This inspirational book tells the stories of 50 real-life teens who've dared to change the world they live in. Bestselling author Margaret Rooke asks teenagers about their experiences of being... (more)
The Unofficial Guide to Therapeutic Parenting - The Teen Years
An honest insight into the rollercoaster reality of therapeutically parenting teenagers. Raising any teenager is tough, but raising teens who have experienced trauma in their early years is a whole... (more)
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)