Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Big Feelings: A Therapist's Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
To be able to effectively offer therapy to children, complex therapeutic concepts need to be presented in an appropriate and engaging manner. This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in... (more)
Promoting Young Children's Emotional Health and Wellbeing: A Practical Guide for Professionals and Parents
Positive emotional health in a child's earliest years can be a critical factor in their future development. Offering practical suggestions for games, activities and exercises designed to promote... (more)
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.... (more)
Outside the Box: Rethinking Add/ADHD in Children and Adults: A Practical Guide
Outside the Box: Rethinking ADD/ADHD in Children and Adults: A Practical Guide identifies assumptions about ADD/ADHD that demand re-evaluation in light of recent research. Building upon a current,... (more)
Overcoming Parent-Child Contact Problems: Family-Based Interventions for Resistance, Rejection, and Alienation
In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following... (more)
Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Children and Adolescents: Third Edition
Widely regarded as the standard reference and text, this book has introduced tens of thousands of clinicians and students to exemplary treatment approaches for social, emotional, and behavioral... (more)
Emotional and Behavioral Problems of Young Children: Effective Interventions in the Preschool and Kindergarten Years
Presenting interventions that are practical, effective, and easy to implement in educational and clinical settings, this book addresses the most frequently encountered emotional and behavioral... (more)
Developing Empathy: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Understanding Compassion for Therapists and Parents
Empathy is valued across cultures, and has a profound impact on psychotherapy, our children, and our world. Why then are many human relationships not empathetic? This volume describes in detail the... (more)
Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents in Crisis: Fourth Edition
This widely used practitioner resource and course text, now significantly revised, is considered the most comprehensive guide to working with children who have experienced major losses, family... (more)
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Reacting to Unexpected Developments
Field Theory in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis looks at the intersection of two types of psychoanalysis that challenge the classic model; child analysis, and field theory.
Children... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children details the application of IFS in child psychotherapy. The weaving together of theory, step-by-step instruction, and case material gives child therapists... (more)
Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens
Packed with creative, effective ideas for bringing mindfulness into the classroom, child therapy office, or community, this book features sample lesson plans and scripts, case studies, vignettes, and... (more)
What to Do When Children Clam Up in Psychotherapy: Interventions to Facilitate Communication
Therapists who work with children and adolescents are frequently faced with nonresponsive, reticent, or completely nonverbal clients. This volume brings together expert clinicians who explore why 4-... (more)
Treating Somatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
Persistent physical symptoms that may not be associated with a known medical disease can be perplexing and distressing for children and families. This book gives mental health professionals a... (more)
Twin Dilemmas: Changing Relationships Throughout the Life Span
The development of how twins relate to each other and their single partners is explored through life stories and clinical examples in this telling study of twin interconnections. While the quality of... (more)
CBT Strategies for Anxious and Depressed Children and Adolescents: A Clinician's Toolkit
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this book provides many dozens of engaging full-color reproducible tools for use in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with 7- to 18-year-olds.... (more)
How Animals Help Students Learn: Research and Practice for Educators and Mental Health Professionals
How Animals Help Students Learn summarizes what we know about the impact of animals in education and synthesizes the thinking of prominent leaders in research and practice. It's a much-needed... (more)
Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence: A Developmental Intergroup Approach
Discrimination impacts most youth at some point. Almost all children and adolescents belong to at least one stigmatized group, whether they are a Black or Latino boy in school; an immigrant or... (more)
Little Kids, Big Dilemmas: Your Parenting Problems Solved by Science
Fashions in parenting come and go and it can be difficult for parents to reconcile the many recommendations of friends, family and media gurus. This book, which is based on many findings from... (more)
Why Siblings Matter: The Role of Sibling Relationships in Development and Well-Being
Why Siblings Matter is a cornerstone text on siblinghood, offering a much-needed scientific update on the supportive role of sibling relationships. Integrating findings from a 10 year longitudinal... (more)
Engaging Infants: Embodied Communication in Short-Term Infant-Parent Therapy
The book begins by describing, within a psychodynamic approach, some traits an infant may bring to an intervention, followed by descriptions of interventions in several specialised perinatal... (more)
The Stages of Life: Personalities and Patterns in Human Emotional Development
Is personality in the genes? Do our infant experiences matter, even though we can't remember them? Why do patterns repeat within the lives of individuals and families? The Stages of Life provides... (more)
Clinical Manual for the Psychiatric Interview of Children and Adolescents
The psychiatric interview is the foundation of the psychotherapeutic process and is critically important to establish trust, elicit useful responses, assess patient behavior and psychopathology, and... (more)
Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder in Childhood
Newly updated, this is a comprehensive guide to ODD and conduct disorder (CD) in children aged 3-14 for professionals, students, and researchers. * Summarizes the most important empirical knowledge... (more)
Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition
These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans... (more)
The Developmental Science of Early Childhood: Clinical Applications of Infant Mental Health Concepts from Infancy Through Adolescence
The field commonly known as infant mental health integrates current research from developmental psychology, genetics and neuroscience to form a model of prevention, intervention and treatment well... (more)
This Much I Know About Mind Over Matter ...: Improving Mental Health in Our Schools
This Much I Know About Mind Over Matter is replete with truths about the mental well-being of children in state schools, about creating a school culture where everyone can, not just survive, but... (more)
Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression: Second Edition
Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression: Second Edition, uses the trusted Five Areas model of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to help young people experiencing low mood or depression to help... (more)
Posttraumatic Play in Children: What Clinicians Need to Know
From leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play. Such play, which is often repetitive and... (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)