Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Not Just a Tomboy: A Trans Masculine Memoir
Caspar Baldwin uses his experiences to open up wider debates about how we impose gender on children, what cis people don't understand about the transition process, and how to thrive as a trans... (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)
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)
Understanding Child and Adolescent Grief: Supporting Loss and Facilitating Growth
Carrie Arnold, MEd, has been an adjunct faculty in thanatology and psychology at King's University College, Western University since 2005. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian... (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)
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)
Relationship Development Intervention with Children, Adolescents and Adults
Remove our emotional bonds with family, colleagues and friends and few of us would want to go on living. Yet establishing and maintaining such bonds is particularly difficult for people on the autism... (more)
Children, Adolescents and Death: Questions and Answers
The topic of death and related issues (such as grief) often begin with questions. When the questions come from, or are about, children or adolescents, they bring an additional component... the fear... (more)
Emotion Regulation in Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner's Guide
Emotion regulation difficulties are central to a range of clinical problems, yet many therapies for children and adolescents lack a focus on emotion and related skills. In a flexible modular format,... (more)
Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A Responsive Approach to Communities
Urban Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services weaves together different strands of mental health work undertaken in one inner-city Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service by professionals... (more)
Play Therapy: A Non-Directive Approach for Children and Adolescents: 2nd Revised edition
This highly readable book provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to non-directive play therapy, which is an effective and ethically sound method of helping troubled children and... (more)
Relational Treatment of Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope
Relational Treatment of Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope is the culmination of over 35 years of psychotherapy with children and adults, many of whom have suffered the effects of physical, emotional,... (more)
Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences
There is a wide gap between the psychological needs of the children of refugees and the services provided. Refugees’ home countries, cultures, and social make-up are widely diversified, and their... (more)
Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome in Children: A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
This straightforward guide offers a complete overview of Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) and gives practical advice for overcoming the difficulties it poses in a wide range of contexts... (more)
Therapeutic Conversations with Queer Youth: Transcending Homonormativity and Constructing Preferred Identities
This is the first therapy book that focuses on clinical work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or lesbian identities). It's also the first... (more)
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children: Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.... (more)
Do You Read Me?: Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia and the Denial of Meaning
A fascinating and compelling exploration of the learning process for parents, teachers, and anyone with an interest in education.
Reading and writing are fundamentally about the communication of... (more)
Your Dieting Daughter: Antidotes Parents Can Provide for Body Dissatisfaction, Excessive Dieting, and Disordered Eating: Second Edition
Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman's development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30. Costin has updated the first... (more)
The Buddha and the Baby: Psychotherapy and Meditation in Working with Children and Adults
These dialogues with child, adolescent and adult psychotherapists and child psychiatrists focus on their personal as well as professional experiences. All the contributors have a long-standing... (more)
Brief Counselling in Schools: Working with Young People from 11 to 18: Third Edition
A highly practical and accessible guide to helping and supporting young people experiencing difficulties both at home and at school or college. Covering issues from low self-esteem and sexuality, to... (more)
Manual for Short-term Psychoanalytic Child Therapy (PaCT)
Manualisation of psychodynamic psychotherapy poses a formidable challenge, but may prove indispensable in the effort to disseminate short-term psychodynamic treatments to a wider patient community.... (more)
Clinical Manual for Management of Bipolar Disorder in Child and Adolescents
Aimed at providing clinical information about diagnosis and management, this manual offers a comprehensive collection of empirical evidence, case studies, and the number of evidence-based reports on... (more)
My Anxious Mind: A Teen's Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic
Anxiety can make everything seem unmanageable from dealing with family and friends to managing schoolwork and extracurricular activities. Its been estimated that between 9 and 15 million teens in the... (more)
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents With PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences: Therapist Guide
Traumatic events, including sexual abuse, experiencing or witnessing violence, and natural disasters, are common among adolescents. A significant number of adolescents go on to develop posttraumatic... (more)
Evocative Strategies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Informed by an amalgamation of psychoanalytic and attachment theories, the techniques offered in this book can be employed alongside a variety of therapeutic modalities, such as evidenced-based... (more)
Identity Development: Adolescence Through Adulthood: Second Edition
The Second Edition of "Identity Development: Adolescence Through Adulthood" presents an overview of the five general theoretical orientations to the question of what constitutes identity, as well as... (more)
The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents
This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents. It is the outcome of the teamwork of 32 researchers... (more)
Playing the Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Interviews with Children Using Winnicott's Squiggle Technique
This book argues that the squiggle game enables one in most cases to make contact with a child with particular ease. Often, if the child takes up the suggestion, an intense dialogue develops which... (more)
Mental Health in Schools: A Guide to Pastoral and Curriculum Provision
Mental Health is now a mandatory component of the PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) curriculum. "Mental Health in Schools" is a practical guide for teachers, explaining the difference... (more)