Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Counselling Young People: Person-Centred Dialogues
This text provides insight into the work of counsellors in helping young people cope in schools, colleges, universities, surgeries and hospitals, social services and charities. It uses dialogue to... (more)
The Cultural Nature of Human Development:
This text presents an account of human development that looks at both the differences and similarities among cultures. Beyond demonstrating that "culture matters," Rogoff focuses on how culture... (more)
Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits
Recognising the different levels and kinds of giftedness, this book provides an insight into the challenges and benefits specific to gifted children with attention difficulties. (more)
Twins and Multiple Births: The Essential Parenting Guide from Pregnancy to Adulthood
Having more than one baby at once can test the endurance of even the most calm and experienced parents. This inspiring and enlightening parenting guide, by a practising GP and mother of twins, will... (more)
Children Who Fail To Thrive: A Practice Guide
This book is essential reading for every professional working with children who fail to thrive, such as social workers, health visitors, nurses, paediatricians, psychologists and child care workers. (more)
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents [Handbook]
Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents is an expert guide to the most salient issues pertaining to PTSD, stress, trauma, and the concurrent conditions that affect children and... (more)
Emotional Healing and Self-Esteem: Inner-life Skills of Relaxation, Visualisation and Meditation for Children and Adolescents
How can we build children's self-esteem and sense of well being? This book aims to guide teachers, youth workers, counsellors and parents through a range of accessible personal development exercises... (more)
The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking
The author refutes the notion that thinking is turned on by biologically pre-determined "modules" in the brain, but that it arises from the nature and quality of the relationship between parent and... (more)
Anorexia and Bulimia in the Family: One Parent's Practical Guide to Recovery
This is the story of one family's struggle with a daughter with an eating disorder. Candid, insightful and informative, it details the onset and symptoms of AN/BN, the effects on family life and... (more)
Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity
Featuring contributions from an international group of experts, the "Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity" is a broad-based resource that explores the major classifications of eating disorders:... (more)
The Presence of the Therapist: Treating Childhood Trauma
The Presence of the Therapist uses clinical studies based on the author's publications over the past 18 years to illustrate work with severely distressed children. The reader is encouraged to enter a... (more)
Counselling Children, Adolescents and Families
Counselling Children, Adolescents and Families describes an innovative approach to therapeutic work which builds on the strengths of children and their parents. As the author's experience shows,... (more)
Stepping Out: Using Games and Activities to Help Your Child with Special Needs
Parents and carers of children with conditions such as autism, Down's Syndrome or other forms of developmental delay can do much to help encourage their childs development. Stepping Out provides... (more)
Doing Research with Children and Young People
Doing Research with Children and Young People introduces researchers to the key considerations involved in working with children and young people.
Key Papers from the Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Papers previously not easily attainable are grouped thematically to cover the entire range of work represented in the journal, and presented in one volume accessible to students and professionals... (more)
The Adolescent with Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD)
Amanda Kirby addresses the main difficulties encountered by adolescents with DCD, including building relationships and coping with secondary school. With a common-sense approach, she provides a... (more)
Brothers and sisters of disabled children:
Examining the overlooked subject of non-disabled siblings in families where there is a disabled child, this volume details the experiences of these children and explores what it means to them to have... (more)
Educating our Black Children: New Directions and Radical Approaches
Exclusion and expulsion of black children from schools is endemic in the US and the UK. This book takes a long hard look at the two countries and uncovers what they can learn from each other in their... (more)
Handbook of Interventions That Work with Children and Adolescents: Prevention and Treatment
Handbook of Interventions that Work with Children and Adolescents, considers evidence-based practice to assess the developmental issues, aetiology, epidemiology, assessment, treatment, and prevention... (more)
Governing Child Sexual Abuse: Negotiating the Boundaries of Public and Private, Law and Science
The turn of the 1990s saw a number of high profile public inquiries into the handling of child sexual abuse cases in Great Britain. Governing Child Sexual Abuse examines the implications of these... (more)
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting
Studies in the Assessment of Parenting brings together experts who consider difficult questions that can arise during family proceedings, and respond with practical approaches for dealing with these... (more)
After adoption: Contact and relationships
Providing a comprehensive understanding of adoption issues and based on research with a large number of adoptive parents, children and birth relatives, "After Adoption" considers the impact of direct... (more)
The Birth of an Adoptive, Foster or Stepmother: Beyond Biological Mothering Attachments
Adoptive, foster and stepmothers, like biological mothers, find their lives completely changed by motherhood although they are not always granted the rights and privileges accorded to those who give... (more)
School Phobia, Panic Attacks and Anxiety in Children
Many children are challenged by anxiety at some time in their school career. Bringing together knowledge from her years of teaching and parenting, the author shows how parents and professionals can... (more)
Change-Oriented Therapy with Adolescents and Young Adults: A New Generation of Respectful and Effective Processes and Practices
In Change-Oriented Therapy With Adolescents and Young Adults, Bob Bertolino writes with an eye toward the issues faced by contemporary therapists who, confronted with the pressures of running a... (more)
Creative Therapies with Traumatized Children
Anne Bannister shows how in 'the space between' children and their therapists, the child and adult can each use their creative skills to aid developmental processes, reverse negative brain patterns... (more)
The Organization of Attachment Relationships: Maturation, Culture, and Context
Focusing on quality of attachment as a central variable in developmental research, this text aims to provide theory and methods to understand human variation in interpersonal and cultural... (more)