Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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)
An Introduction to Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Anyone who works within children and adolescent mental health services will tell you what a challenging and complex world it is. To help prepare you, the authors have produced a clear introduction to... (more)
Stillpoints for Children: Guided Relaxation, Meditation and Visualisation
Research shows that the stress points in children's daily lives are on the increase and can have a negative impact on their ability to learn, relate to others and to themselves. This practical... (more)
Adventure Tales: A Framework for Therapeutic Story Creation by and for Children
Almost all troubled children thrive in storytelling. However experience has shown that children with Aspergers' or autistic tendencies neither enjoy nor benefit from storytelling, they need a... (more)
Storytelling for Better Behaviour: Using Traditional Tales to Explore Responsibility, Decision Making and Conflict Resolution
Storytelling for Better Behaviour provides a method to teach students to reflect, consider and think in ways that can enhance the potential they have for making good decisions and resolving conflicts... (more)
The Behaviour Learning Programme: A Collaborative Approach to Tackling Difficult Behaviours
This is a practical resource to reduce inappropriate behaviour. This innovative resource provides a practical programme of work to help young people with behavioural problems by approaching the... (more)
Child Psychotherapy: Integrating Developmental Theory into Clinical Practice
All too often children are diagnosed and medicated without the consideration that their symptoms may actually be a healthy response to stressful life events. This integrative guide for mental health... (more)
Health and Wellbeing for Young People: Building Resilience and Empowerment
Ethical beliefs, direct personal experiences, and the knowledge we accumulate from sources such as TV dramas, magazines and social media all shape our ideas about health and wellbeing. In this highly... (more)
Resilience in Childhood: Perspectives, Promise and Practice
With an emphasis on promoting self-reliance, autonomy and independence, this book provides a contemporary and holistic analysis of the childhood resilience. It recognises 'resilience in childhood' as... (more)
The Little Book of Child and Adolescent Development
The book presents a modern, psychoanalytically-informed chronological view of how the mind develops from infancy through young adulthood. It is a comprehensive work which integrates analytic theories... (more)
Prenatal Development and Parents' Lived Experiences: How Early Events Shape Our Psychophysiology and Relationships
This book presents recent knowledge, research, and theory about the earliest developmental period-from conception to birth-which holds even greater consequences for the health and development of the... (more)
Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human
What is the mind? What is the experience of the self truly made of? How does the mind differ from the brain? Though the mind's contents-its emotions, thoughts, and memories-are often described, the... (more)
Helping Families Manage Childhood OCD: Decreasing Conflict and Increasing Positive Interaction, Therapist Guide
Pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common condition that can take a substantial toll on the entire family system. Research suggests that families of youth with OCD face a unique set... (more)
Adolescence: A Very Short Introduction
Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through, and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers, and social workers. Marking the transition from the world of childhood to adult life, the... (more)
Preventing Adolescent Depression: Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training
Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST) is a program that teaches communication and interpersonal problem-solving skills to improve relationships and prevent the development... (more)
Of Mice and Metaphors: Therapeutic Storytelling with Children: Second Edition
Psychoanalyst and child treatment specialist Jerrold R. Brandell introduces a variety of dynamic strategies for therapists to understand and incorporate a child's own creative story-narrative into an... (more)
Counseling Adolescents Competently
Authors Lee Underwood and Frances Dailey review extensive interventions ranging from assessment to diagnosis as well as fresh perspectives on working with this often challenging group. Employing... (more)
Counseling Children and Adolescents: Connecting Theory, Development, and Diversity
Adopting a broad approach which encompasses a range of ages, approaches, and interventions that are applicable to varied settings the authors have laid out an integrated framework that focuses on... (more)