Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a... (more)
Understanding and Supporting Children with ADHD: Strategies for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals
Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be hard to include in a mainstream classroom, and managing their behaviour is often a challenge. Drawing directly from real classroom... (more)
Young People in Care and Criminal Behaviour
Society holds a popular perception that links children in public care with criminal activity, but this connection is largely assumed. This book addresses the lack of evidence supporting this... (more)
Breaking the Cycle of Abuse: How to Move Beyond Your Past to Create an Abuse-Free Future
f you were emotionally, physically, or sexually abused as a child or adolescent, or if you experienced neglect or abandonment, it isn't a question of whether you will continue the cycle of abuse but... (more)
You and Your Child: Making Sense of Learning Disabilities
This volume looks at the physical, mental and emotional development of children with varying degrees of learning disabilities through tracing the development of six young adults from childhood. The... (more)
Deliberate Self-Harm in Adolescence
This informative resource provides guidance for professionals and parents caring for young people at risk of self-harm and suicide. The authors consider what research tells us about the increased... (more)
Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott
This book presents the life and work of one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator in helping... (more)
Childhood Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
Childhood Psychosis is a well-structured and informative study that explores childhood psychosis and its different manifestations in depth, with special emphasis on the relation between psychosis and... (more)
Clinical Faces of Childhood
Two volume set: Volume One, The Oppositional Child. The Inhibited Child. The Depressed Child. Volume Two, The Hysterical Child. The Anxious Child. The Borderline Child. (more)
The Bi-Personal Field: Experiences in Child Analysis
This book sets out a new a new conceptual system for analysis based on the inner world of the patient and its interaction with the inner world of the the analyst. Ferro takes a fresh look at... (more)
Psychotherapy with Severely Deprived Children
This study describes the experience of severely deprived children referred for individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and at other clinics and schools. Most were... (more)
Adolescent Breakdown and Beyond
This is the second monograph published by Karnac Books on behalf of the Brent Adolescent Centre/Centre for Research into Adolescent Breakdown. Drawing on the Centre's unique pool of expertise in the... (more)
The Spontaneous Gesture: Selected Letters of D.W. Winnicott
This volume consists of the collected letters of D. W. Winnicott, a central figure in British psychoanalysis in the generation following Freud. Suspicious of dogma and deeply committed to the value... (more)
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: To Join the Waiting Child
Psychohistorical analyses of such tyrants as Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu have shown the links between the horrors of their childhoods and that which they inflict on the world. In this text, Miller... (more)
Dominique: The Case of an Adolescent
While the child psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto stands alongside Jacques Lacan as a leading light of the Other French School, she has been little translated and remains curiously unknown in the... (more)
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children: Eclectic Group Conductors and Creative Play
Psychosocial Group Work with Vulnerable Children presents a simple, accessible, and preventative approach to psychotherapeutic interventions.
The authors explore how this form of group work can... (more)
The Psychological Impact of Boarding School: The Trunk in the Hall
The Psychological Impact of Boarding School is a collection of research-based essays answering a range of questions about boarding school and its long-term impact.
Through a combination of... (more)
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service for children.
The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and... (more)
Silo's Sadness
Silo the lion cub has lost his grandfather due to the illness on the Savanna, El the wise elephant helps Silo explore and manage his grief. (more)
Understanding Infants Psychoanalytically: A Post-Jungian Perspective on Michael Fordham's Model of Development
Focussing on infants and the relationship between child and parent, this book presents a discourse on eminent Jungian child analyst Michael Fordham's model of development that extended Jung's theory... (more)
The Development of Empathy: Phenomenology, Structure and Human Nature
This thought-provoking volume offers psychological perspectives on the formation of empathy and how this determines both antisocial and prosocial behaviors in individuals. It offers a theoretically... (more)
Mentalizing in Child Therapy: Guidelines for Clinical Practitioners: Second Edition
Mentalizing in Child Therapy focuses on open-ended psychotherapy for children with complex mental health issues and attachment problems. It offers examples of personalized and integrated treatment... (more)
Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth: A Strengths-Based Approach to At-Promise Children and Adolescents
Art Therapy Practices for Resilient Youth highlights the paradigm shift to treating children and adolescents as "at-promise" rather than "at-risk." By utilizing a strength-based model that moves in... (more)
Handbook of psychological services for children and adolescents:
Provides key elements which should be part of any successful programme tailored to the needs of children with mental, behavioural, or emotional disorders. This text aims to provide an overview of the... (more)
Separation-Individuation: The Selected Papers of Margaret S. Mahler, Vol.2
More of the collected papers of this influential American psychoanalyst. They provide an exposition of the development of Mahler's essential concepts.
Therapeutic Parenting Essentials: Moving from Trauma to Trust
All families of children affected by trauma are on a journey, and this book will help to guide you and your family on your journey from trauma to trust. Sarah Naish shares her own experiences of... (more)
Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents
Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and... (more)
The Positive Parenting Handbook: Developing happy and confident children
Drawing on Judy Hutchings many years of work with parents and children, The Positive Parenting Handbook is a concise, straightforward guide that offers simple solutions to daily dilemmas. The clear... (more)