Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Inclusion, Play and Empathy: Neuroaffective Development in Children's Groups
Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and... (more)
The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott
12-Volume Set
Donald Woods Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of Britain's leading psychoanalysts and pediatricians. The author of some of the most enduring theories of the child and of child analysis,... (more)
Latency: The Golden Age of Childhood
This book concerns the child’s emotional and cognitive development during the period of latency. It constitutes a bridge between the first stormy years of child development and adolescence. The... (more)
Psychodynamic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Theories and Methods
This book is both a textbook and book of reference for all child and adolescent psychotherapists. It addresses both novices, who need to learn the theories and methods of the work, and also... (more)
The Twin Enigma: An Exploration of Our Enduring Fascination with Twins
The book offers a unique in-depth understanding of the twin relationship, and the way in which twin development is affected by our attitudes to twins and our enduring fascination with them. It... (more)
Narrative Therapy in Wonderland: Connecting with Children's Imaginative Know-How
Children's innate inventiveness and self-knowledge are important resources for narrative therapy, in which therapist and client work to re-author the story of the client's life. This book teaches... (more)
The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms
The Body in Adolescence: Psychic Isolation and Physical Symptoms examines the affective experience of psychic isolation as an important and painful element of adolescent development. Mary Brady... (more)
Child Sexual Abuse: A Primer for Treating Children, Adolescents, and Their Nonoffending Parents
Children who have been sexually abused not only often experience PTSD symptoms as a direct result of the trauma, but also develop unhealthy emotional responses and may engage in age-inappropriate... (more)
Winnicott's Theory of the Maturational Processes
This book presents the central concepts of Winnicott’s theory of the maturational processes, clarifying its premises and providing an organised description of the various stages, with their... (more)
Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child
Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of... (more)
Siblings in Adolescence: Emerging Individuals, Lasting Bonds
How do brothers and sisters shape one another? Siblings in Adolescence provides a comprehensive overview of the most up-to-date, international empirical research on the sibling bond during the... (more)
From Pregnancy to Motherhood: Psychoanalytic Aspects of the Beginnings of the Mother-Child Relationship
From Pregnancy to Motherhood explores the mental states associated with pregnancy, birth and the early days of motherhood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Drawing on clinical research findings and... (more)
Clinical Topics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Up to one in ten children may have a clinically significant psychiatric disorder. This book is a comprehensive update on the field of psychiatric disorders in children and young people. Conditions... (more)
Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume Two: The Contemporary Adolescent: A Clinical Workbook for School-based Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists
This second edition serves as a practical handbook for school-based counsellors, psychotherapists, arts therapists and play therapists working with young people. Written in accessible language, it is... (more)
Your Baby is Speaking to You: A Visual Guide to the Amazing Behaviours of Your Newborn and Growing Baby
From an international expert on infant-parent communication, Your Baby Is Speaking To You is destined to become a parenting classic. Through intimate access to babies and their families, Dr Kevin... (more)
The Psychology of Babies: How Relationships Support Development from Birth to Two
This is an instructive and accessible account of the psychological development of children aged 0-2 years and how it can be supported by social relationships. The first two years are critical in a... (more)
Integrative Parenting: Strategies for Raising Children Affected by Attachment Trauma
Designed as a manual to complement the clinician's guide, this book is written for birth, foster, or adoptive parents, aunts and uncles, grandparents, or anyone who may be raising a child who has... (more)
The Twin in the Transference
Second Revised Edition
The universal phantasy of having a twin originates in our earliest relational experiences. This book is about twins and twinning processes. The existence of an actual... (more)
Exploiting Childhood: How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
The protection of children today is as challenging as ever, as changes in society and the way we live our lives lead to new forms of exploitation and abuse. This book scrutinises emerging threats to... (more)
Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients: Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space
Winnicott’s thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial... (more)
What Does Dead Mean?: A Book for Young Children to Help Explain Death and Dying
What Does Dead Mean? is a beautifully illustrated book that guides children gently through 17 of the 'big' questions they often ask about death and dying. Questions such as 'Is being dead like... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Anger and Aggression in Children
This highly practical book presents an evidence-based individual therapy approach for children and adolescents experiencing anger problems. Comprising 10 child sessions and 3 parent sessions, the... (more)
Reading Anna Freud
What place do Anna Freud's ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can Anna Freud teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant... (more)
Young Children and their Parents: Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Infant Observation
The book describes, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the development of the parent-infant relationship in the first years of life. It follows the development of the child's relationship to his or... (more)
The Baby as Subject: Clinical Studies in Infant-Parent Therapy
This book is a collection of papers by clinicians united in their conviction about the importance of directly engaging and interacting with the baby in the presence of the parents whenever possible.... (more)
Enabling and Inspiring: A Tribute to Martha Harris
Martha Harris (1919-1987) was one of the most influential and also one of the most loved psychoanalysts of the generation that trained with Melanie Klein. She also worked with Wilfred Bion, and wrote... (more)
Therapeutic Practice in Schools: Working With the Child Within: A Clinical Workbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists
This book is an indispensable guide to providing therapy services for children and adolescents in primary and secondary school settings. The contributors have extensive experience in the field and... (more)
Attachment Therapy with Adolescents and Adults: Theory and Practice Post Bowlby: Revised Edition
This is a revised edition of an important title originally published in 2009. It is written primarily for psychotherapists and other practitioners and describes a new and effective form of dynamic... (more)
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)