Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Interviewing Children and Adolescents: Skills and Strategies for Effective DSM-5 Diagnosis: Second Edition
Fully updated for DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM, this instructive clinical resource has given thousands of clinicians and students essential skills for evaluating infants through adolescents with any type of... (more)
Depression and Your Child: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers
Seeing your child suffer in any way is a harrowing experience for any parent. Mental illness in children can be particularly draining due to the mystery surrounding it, and the issue of diagnosis at... (more)
Treating Co-Occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents with Trauma and Substance-Abuse Disorders
Trauma and addiction often present side by side. However, up until now, clinicians have lacked the tools needed to treat these two issues together. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and... (more)
What Works with Teens: A Professional's Guide to Engaging Authentically with Adolescents to Achieve Lasting Change
If you work with teens, you know they are notoriously challenging to communicate with. And when teens are resistant to help, they may respond by acting defiant, guarded, defensive, rude, or even... (more)
The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection
Adolescents face unique pressures and worries. Will they pass high school? Should they go to college? Will they find love? And what ways do they want to act in the world? The uncertainty surrounding... (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)
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition
Security of Attachment and the Social Development of Cognition investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the... (more)
Working with Relational and Developmental Trauma in Children and Adolescents
Working with Relational and Developmental Trauma in Children and Adolescents focuses on the multi-layered complex and dynamic area of trauma, loss and disrupted attachment on babies, children,... (more)
The Circle of Security Intervention: Enhancing Attachment in Early Parent-Child Relationships
Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young children's emotional needs (ages 0-5), this is the first... (more)
Trauma-Focused CBT for Children and Adolescents: Treatment Applications
Featuring a wealth of clinical examples, this book facilitates implementation of trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) in a range of contexts. It demonstrates how assessment strategies... (more)
The Adolescent Brain: Changes in Learning, Decision-Making and Social Relations
In recent years there have been tremendous advances in understanding how brain development underlies behavioural changes in adolescence. Based on the latest discoveries in the research field, Eveline... (more)
Mary D. Sheridan's Play in Early Childhood: From Birth to Six Years: Fourth Edition
Mary D. Sheridan's Play in Early Childhood is a classic introductory text to play and development - key topics for all those who work with young children. Drawing on the most up-to-date evidence, it... (more)
Parent-Led CBT for Child Anxiety: Helping Parents Help Their Kids
Parents can play a strong role in helping their children overcome anxiety disorders--given the right tools. This innovative, research-based book shows clinicians how to teach parents... (more)
Parent-Teen Therapy for Executive Function Deficits and ADHD: Building Skills and Motivation
This user-friendly manual presents an innovative, tested approach to helping teens overcome the frustrating organizational and motivation problems associated with executive function deficits and... (more)
Parenting Through the Storm: Find Help, Hope, and Strength When Your Child Has Psychological Problems
Raising a child or teenager with a psychological condition is a perfect storm of stress, sadness, and uncertainty. How can you find the best treatments and help your child overcome emotional,... (more)
Theory of Mind Development in Context
Theory of Mind Development in Context is the first book of its kind to explore how children's environment shapes their theory of mind and, in turn, their ability to interact effectively with others.... (more)
Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions with Infants, Toddlers and Their Families
Art therapy with infants, toddlers and their families is an exciting and developing area of practice. With contributions from Australia, the United Kingdom and Spain, Art Therapy in the Early Years... (more)
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children: Third Edition
Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from... (more)
Understanding OCD: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Giving a full overview of childhood obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and discussing all major treatment options, including cognitive behavioural therapy and medication, this guide provides the... (more)
Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy
What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life? Combining knowledge from trauma-focused work, understandings of the developmental... (more)
Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time, and Why it Matters
For many children and teens daily Internet use is the norm - but where should we draw the line when it comes to digital media usage? This handy book lays out the essential information needed to... (more)
The Simple Guide to Child Trauma: What it is and How to Help
What is trauma? How does it affect children? How can adults help? Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any... (more)
M in the Middle: Secret Crushes, Mega-Colossal Anxiety and the People's Republic of Autism
I'll never have a Card Emporium series of life events: a boyfriend, a fiance, a husband and a future. A future with lots of sparkly cards celebrating all these big life events. I was on course and... (more)
Helping Children and Adolescents Think About Death, Dying and Bereavement
How can children begin to understand death and cope with bereavement? And how can we, as adults, support and engage with children as they encounter this complex subject? Exploring how children and... (more)
Inclusion, Play and Empathy: Neuroaffective Development in Children's Groups
Contributions from early childhood educators, teachers, psychologists, music therapists, occupational therapists, and psychotherapists highlight the crucial role that early relationships and... (more)
Narrative Therapies with Children and Their Families: A Practitioner's Guide to Concepts and Approaches: Second Edition
Narrative Therapies with Children and their Families introduces and develops the principles of narrative approaches to systemic therapeutic work, and shows how they can provide a powerful framework... (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)
Treating Internalizing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Core Techniques and Strategies
Identifying 13 core techniques and strategies that cut across all available evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, this book provides theoretical rationales,... (more)
Confronting Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse
While Child Sexual Abuse has been around for ages, research on the effects and treatment are fairly recent and date back to the late 70s. To date, there are many books that deal with aspects of abuse... (more)
The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders
Over the last four decades, breakthroughs in genetic knowledge, together with the emergence of disciplines devoted to the scientific study of developmental disorders have resulted in much greater... (more)