Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach
This book is the first comprehensive clinical introduction to using Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) with children, 5-12 years old, who experience emotional and behavioral problems including... (more)
Psychoanalysarium: Four Case Studies of Child Psychoanalysis
In this unique volume, four experienced psychoanalysts present in-depth case studies of child psychoanalysis, highlighting the praxis, development and relevance of psychoanalytic work with... (more)
Infancy: The Basics
Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants... (more)
Child Agency and Voice in Therapy: New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies
Child Agency and Voice in Therapy offers innovatory ways of thinking about, and working with, children in therapy.
The book:
considers different practices such as respecting the rights of... (more)
12 Principles for Raising a Child with ADHD
From his decades of research and work with thousands of families, leading authority Russell A. Barkley knows how overwhelming the everyday challenges of ADHD can be. This unique book guides parents... (more)
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership - in particular, the felt experience of life as a... (more)
A for Adoption: An Exploration of the Adoption Experience for Families and Professionals
The experience of adoption, both adopting and being adopted, can stir up deep emotional pain, often related to loss and early trauma. A for Adoption provides insight and support to those families and... (more)
The ambiguity of play:
A study of what it means to play. The book explores play theory as elaborated and debated in disciplines from biology and psychology to mathematics, and analyzes the implications of play in areas... (more)
Social work with children:
How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? This text addresses these and other questions, setting out... (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)
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)
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)
Twins: From Fetus to Child
Scientifically based, but warmly human in content, this unique longitudinal study offers new insights to professionals working with mothers and families of twins and to researchers in human... (more)
Helping Babies and Children Aged 0-6 to Heal After Family Violence: A Practical Guide to Infant- and Child-Led Work
After family violence, very young children and babies benefit from child-led therapy, but how do you achieve this? Dr Wendy Bunston's guide is here to help you to meet the emotional needs of children... (more)
Practical Supervision for Counsellors Who Work with Young People
Counsellors working with young people often find it can feel like messy, complex work. What helps when counsellors are stuck? This book recalls those moments when supervision sessions have been... (more)
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy: A Practitioner's Reference
This handbook describes in detail different contemporary approaches to group work with children and adolescents. Further, this volume illustrates the application of these models to work with the... (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)
Learning About Human Nature and Analytic Technique from Mothers and Babies
We have much to learn from mothers and babies, not just about early life psychic phenomena that are active in us, but also about the analytic technique, when the internal setting becomes more... (more)
Essential Play Therapy Techniques: Time-Tested Approaches
Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to... (more)
Life Coaching for Kids: A Practical Manual to Coach Children and Young People to Success, Well-Being and Fulfilment
Life coaching is a great way to help children and young people build self-esteem, set positive goals and deal with difficult issues such as bullying, anxiety and poor body image. This book sets out... (more)
The Language of Distress: Understanding a Child's Behaviour
This book describes a series of cases where the child’s presenting complaint is seen to be the expression of an underlying emotional conflict that the child expects the parents to understand and help... (more)
The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy: Second Edition
In The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents you will find the most powerful tools available for aiding children with their feelings, incorporating play techniques into therapy,... (more)
Seeds of Hope Bereavement and Loss Activity Book: Helping Children and Young People Cope With Change Through Nature
'Life is full of changes; they happen all the time. Some changes are harder to cope with than others.' Seeds of Hope Bereavement and Loss Activity Book uses nature to help children understand death,... (more)
Helping Adolescents and Adults to Build Self-Esteem: A Photocopiable Resource Book
Packed with activities and helpful advice, this resource is designed for professionals working to help adolescents and adults break the destructive cycle of low self-esteem. This fully updated new... (more)
School Counsellors Working with Young People and Staff: A Whole-School Approach
What is it like to work as a counsellor in schools? What relationship might a counsellor have with staff? How can a counsellor become a positive, integral part of school life? In this book, Nick... (more)
Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst
If advances in medical technology now allow babies to be born earlier and survive premature birth, what of the psychical impact of this emergence into the world? What consequences can premature birth... (more)
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child's brain is wired and how it matures.... (more)
An Early Start for Your Child with Autism: Using Everyday Activities to Help Kids Connect, Communicate, and Learn
Cutting-edge research reveals that parents can play a major role in teaching even the youngest children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) how to connect with others and live up to their potential.... (more)
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents provides readers with the defining fundamentals of CBT in an accessible, down-to-earth style. In addition, a well-integrated, developmentally... (more)
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship: Third Edition
Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is a text for graduate-level counseling students in play therapy courses. It provides comprehensive and detailed information for creating therapeutic... (more)