Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Supporting Children and Young People with Anxiety: A Practical Guide
This accessible and user-friendly resource will help a wide range of adults support children and young people with anxiety. Clear information on the nature of anxiety is combined with helpful ideas,... (more)
Trans Teen Survival Guide
Frank, friendly and funny, Trans Teen Survival Guide will leave transgender and non-binary teens informed, empowered and armed with all the tips, confidence and practical advice they need to navigate... (more)
Real Parenting for Real Kids: Enabling Parents to Bring Out the Best in Their Children
The essential guide to bringing out the best in your children. The Parent Practice team, led by Melissa Hood and Elaine Halligan, have been delivering positive parenting courses since 2004 designed... (more)
I am the Parent Who Stayed: Joyfully parenting alone
Being The parent who stayed can be more beautiful than you ever imagined. It's hard to be left taking care of your family all by yourself. Parenting alone in the wake of domestic violence, intense... (more)
Positive Mental Health: A Whole School Approach
Is mental health provision a concern in your school? Are you looking to develop a whole school approach to mental health issues? Do you need targeted, evidence-informed strategies? This book... (more)
Protecting children: A social model
This book brings together leading scholars of child protection to present an in-depth analysis of the current state of policy and practice as well as assessments of the effects of inequality on... (more)
Mental Health Screening and Monitoring for Children in Care: A Short Guide for Children's Agencies and Post-adoption Services
Mental Health Screening and Monitoring for Children in Care provides a concise, step-by-step guide for children's agencies on how to carry out mental health screening and monitoring for children and... (more)
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist brings together selected papers from the career of Ann Horne, and interrogates her vast experience in the field of... (more)
Starving the Depression Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Managing Depression for Young People
Have you met the depression gremlin? He's a troublesome creature who likes nothing more than to feed off your low mood. And the more he devours, the bigger he gets and the more sadness you feel. But... (more)
The Handbook of Counselling Children & Young People
Expert authors from a wide range of backgrounds bring together the fundamentals of counselling practice with children and young people in this landmark handbook. It covers all your students need to... (more)
Promoting Healthy Attachments: Hands-on Techniques to Use with Your Clients
Attachment theory is all the rage in therapy these days. But what does a therapist do with all the theory? This book presents successful attachment-oriented interventions for clinicians to use with... (more)
How To Be a Better Child Therapist: An Integrative Model for Therapeutic Change
Effective therapeutic work with children and adolescents is necessarily eclectic, requiring the integration of multiple therapeutic disciplines. This book offers an inclusive model of therapeutic... (more)
Thera-Build (R) with LEGO (R): A Playful Therapeutic Approach for Promoting Emotional Well-Being in Children
'Thera-Build' is a LEGO (R)-based therapeutic approach for improving children's emotional well-being. Participation in Thera-Build groups can help to boost self-esteem, address common issues such as... (more)
The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions
Therapeutic parenting is a deeply nurturing parenting style, and is especially effective for children with attachment difficulties, or who experienced childhood trauma. This book provides everything... (more)
Therapeutic Adventures with Autistic Children: Connecting through Movement, Play and Creativity
A vivid exploration of working with autistic children using empowering techniques from a range of creative therapies. Each chapter in this heartening book is the story of a child with autism and how... (more)
Thinking about Infants and Young Children
This book describes some of the important aspects of the development of infants and young children from birth to school age. It is illustrated by vignettes of scenes between parents and children and... (more)
Adolescents at Risk: Home-Based Family Therapy and School-Based Intervention
Rich with illustrative case material, this book guides mental health professionals to break the cycle of at-risk behavior by engaging adolescents and their families in home, school, and community... (more)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults: An Emotion Regulation Approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults: An Emotion Regulation Approach provides a unique focus on therapeutic practice with adolescents and young adults, covering everything... (more)
Treating Trauma in Adolescents: Development Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship
This book presents an innovative and empathic approach to working with traumatized teens. It offers strategies for getting through to high-risk adolescents and for building a strong attachment... (more)
Child Development: Concepts and Theories
Understanding child development is essential to ensuring a full and rounded psychological grounding, but given the complex nature of the topic it can be a real challenge. Child Development: Concepts... (more)
Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy
Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy presents a working model of ways to incorporate parents into a child's art therapy sessions, drawing on the relational-psychoanalytic notion of mentalization in the... (more)
Art for Children Experiencing Psychological Trauma: A Guide for Educators and School-Based Professionals
Art for Children Experiencing Psychological Trauma aims to increase understanding of art's potential to enhance learning for children living in crisis. In this groundbreaking resource, the first of... (more)
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides an innovative perspective on developmental disorders in youth, one focused on embracing and working with the messiness and many... (more)
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International perspective
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International Perspective synthesizes all the existing evidence, policy and practice from around the world for children and youth who have experienced different forms... (more)
Understanding Teen Eating Disorders: Warning Signs, Treatment Options, and Stories of Courage
Understanding Teen Eating Disorders introduces readers to common teen eating disorder scenarios, their warning signs, and treatment options. Each chapter examines a teen or tween and brings the... (more)
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child... (more)
Analytic Engagements with Adolescents: Sex, Gender, and Subversion
In Analytic Engagements with Adolescents, Mary T. Brady takes on the intensity and heat of adolescent psychoanalytic treatment.She is a guide in the distinctive challenges of work with adolescents.... (more)
Re-Circuiting Trauma Pathways in Adults, Parents, and Children: A Brain-Based, Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Method
Re-Circuiting Trauma Pathways in Adults, Parents, and Children presents the evidence-informed and substantiated Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model (ITTM), with an emphasis on up-to-date trauma... (more)
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children offers a thorough overview of the problems and rewards of trying to help... (more)