Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Difficult Moments in Child Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy with children and adolescents is difficult. This book offers accounts of the personal experiences of a number of child and adolescent psychiatrists, who show how difficult moments may... (more)
How to Help a Clumsy Child: Strategies for Young Children with Developmental Motor Concerns.
Mealtimes, getting dressed and learning to write can all be difficult for a child with coordination difficulties. This practical resource offers advice on how to recognize normal and abnormal motor... (more)
Therapeutic Communities for Children and Young People
Whilst there is now a growing canon of literature on Therapeutic Communities both in general and in different contexts, relatively little has been written about TCs for children and young people.... (more)
My Right to Play: A Child with Complex Needs
This lively and accessible book provides a take on life from the perspective of a child who has no sight and no speech and who uses a wheelchair because of physical disabilities. (more)
Divorcing Children: Children's Experience of their Parents' Divorce
Drawing on a three-year multidisciplinary study of the children of divorced parents, the authors, leading academics in their fields, present a much-needed guide to working with children who are... (more)
Children's Communication Skills: From Birth to Five Years
Children's Communication Skills: From Birth to Five Years uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children. Its aim is to increase awareness in... (more)
Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
presents an overview of the research, clinical insights, and ethical dilemmas relevant to clinicians who treat intersex youth and their families. Exploring gender development from a cross-cultural... (more)
Drawing and Painting: Children and Visual Representation: Second Edition
This book has been revised to reflect recent developments in early childhood education, in developmental psychology and in our understanding of children's development in the arts.The author shows how... (more)
If Your Adolescent has Depression or Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents
While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive... (more)
Child Pornography: An Internet Crime
The availability of child pornography on the Internet has become a cause of huge social concern in recent years. This book considers the reality behind the often hysterical media coverage of the... (more)
Touchpoints: 3 to 6: Your Child's Emotional & Behavioral Development
Through delightful profiles of four very different children, the authors apply the touchpoints theory (following the pattern of growth--new challenge --regression--recharging--and renewed growth) to... (more)
Children's Unspoken Language
Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon, a developmental psychologist and mother of a young son herself, demonstrates the way in which a young child's developing personality and intelligence is revealed in their... (more)
The welfare of children with mentally ill parents: Learning from inter-country comparisons
Examines the interventions made by professional workers from a range of different disciplines in families with dependent children and a mentally ill parent. The authors compare responses of... (more)
New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Scripts and Dangerous Dialogues
The international feminist contributors to this book look through the lens of poststructuralism at how child sexual abuse is differently represented and understood in the populist, academic,... (more)
Adoption: Changing Families, Changing Times
Draws together contributions from all those with an interest in adoption: adopted people; birth parents and adoptive parents; practitioners and managers in the statutory and voluntary sectors;... (more)
Children's Perspectives on Domestic Violence
Written for students, their teachers, researchers and all those working with children - across social work, health, child psychology and psychiatry, the law and education - this book will provide a... (more)
The Early Years: Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Chil
This clear and practical workbook shows the importance of encouraging resilience in pre school children who live in challenging circumstances. Focusing on an assessment of need, the authors show how... (more)
The School years: Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Chi
Helping practitioners in their work with vulnerable children of a school-going age, this workbook explores ways of nurturing resilience in different aspects of everyday life.
Adolescence: Assessing and Promoting Resilience in Vulnerable Children
Practical resource for work with vulnerable adolescents showing ways of promoting resilience and encouraging pro-social behaviour.