Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways. It's no wonder that many parents approach their child's adolescence with fear and... (more)
Counselling Children and Young People in Private Practice: A Practical Guide
With statutory CAMHS services often heavily oversubscribed, and school and college services mainly offering brief therapeutic interventions, parents are increasingly turning to private practitioners... (more)
Eradicating Child Maltreatment: Evidence-based Approaches to Prevention and Intervention Across Services
Is it possible to overcome the enduring problem of child maltreatment? In Eradicating Child Maltreatment, leading international figures in the field of child welfare address this enduring and thorny... (more)
Essential Listening Skills for Busy School Staff: What to Say When You Don't Know What to Say
How do you listen to the boy in your class whose mother is dying? Or to the girl who's feeling worthless? How do you respond to a boy who feels like giving up? Or to a girl who's so angry that she's... (more)
Seeds of Hope Bereavement and Loss Activity Book: Helping Children and Young People Cope With Change Through Nature
'Life is full of changes; they happen all the time. Some changes are harder to cope with than others.' Seeds of Hope Bereavement and Loss Activity Book uses nature to help children understand death,... (more)
The KidsKope Peer Mentoring Programme: A Therapeutic Approach to Help Children and Young People Build Resilience and Deal with Conflict
This is a programme to train young people how to be therapeutic mentors to younger children, with mentoring workshop outlines and creative, therapeutic activities to use. Peer mentoring is mutually... (more)
Helping Adolescents and Adults to Build Self-Esteem: A Photocopiable Resource Book
Packed with activities and helpful advice, this resource is designed for professionals working to help adolescents and adults break the destructive cycle of low self-esteem. This fully updated new... (more)
Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development
From a pioneering researcher, this book synthesizes the best current knowledge on resilience in children and adolescents. Ann S. Masten explores what allows certain individuals to thrive and adapt... (more)
DBT Skills Manual for Adolescents
From leading experts who have trained thousands of professionals in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), this manual provides indispensable tools for treating adolescents with emotional or behavioral... (more)
Enhancing Self-Control in Adolescents: Treatment Strategies Derived from Psychological Sciences
This book offers an innovative, trans-diagnostic approach to enhancing self-control in adolescents based directly on personality and social psychological science. It thus fills a void. While several... (more)
Play in Family Therapy: Second Edition
This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice. Eliana Gil demonstrates a broad... (more)
Treating Traumatized Children: A Casebook of Evidence-Based Therapies
Featuring extensive case studies, this volume provides a unique window into implementation of evidence-based treatments in real-world community settings. Experienced therapists illustrate the use of... (more)
Screen-Smart Parenting: How to Find Balance and Benefit in Your Child's Use of Social Media, Apps, and Digital Devices
Even for today's most tech-savvy parents, managing kids' technology use is a huge challenge fraught with uncertainties. What kinds (and amounts) of screen time boost learning and development--and... (more)
Brief Coaching with Children and Young People: A Solution Focused Approach
Brief Coaching with Children and Young People: A Solution Focused Approach is the first book of its type to describe the thinking and practice of Solution Focused coaching with these age groups. The... (more)
Essentials of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
A concise guide to the fundamentals of child psychopathology, complete with the latest developments, Essentials of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, Second Edition provides a concise, accessible... (more)
Forensic Child Psychology: Working in the Courts and Clinic
This book aims to provide a guide to working effectively with children in the criminal justice system. Uniquely designed to train psychology, criminology, and social work students to work with... (more)
Comprehensive Evidence Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents
This book forms a complete guide to evidence based interventions for children and adolescents. The past decade has witnessed the development of numerous interventions proved to be highly effective;... (more)
An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological Perspectives on Children's Lives
In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and... (more)
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology: From Theory to Practice
Theoretical and practice-oriented, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology offers a concise, comprehensive, review of the knowledge, concepts and practice of child and adolescent clinical... (more)
The Science of ADHD: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
The Science of ADHD addresses the scientific status of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in an informed and accessible way, without recourse to emotional or biased viewpoints. The author... (more)
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Definitive Guide for Educators
Developmental deficits in learning and communication in young children are defined as neurodevelopmental disorders. This constellation, newly defined in the DSM-5, represents a range of issues that... (more)
8 Keys to Old School Parenting for Modern-Day Families
Helicopter parenting and child-centered parenting, two of the latest parenting fads, have resulted in a new generation of highly dependent, overly sensitive children who demonstrate few qualities of... (more)
Incest Fantasies and Self-Destructive Acts in Adolescence: Jungian and Post-Jungian Psychotherapy in Adolescence
Mainstream analysts working in the Jungian tradition have largely neglected adolescents. Mara Sidoli and Gustav Bovensiepen remedy that omission by showing how and why psychological and physical... (more)
The Story of Baby P: Setting the Record Straight
In England in 2007 Peter Connelly, a 17 month old little boy - known initially in the media reporting as 'Baby P' - died following terrible neglect and abuse. Fifteen months later, his mother, her... (more)
Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations
In Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations, experts explore the varied, often complex, and always tragic circumstances under... (more)
Play Therapy with Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing
Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and relevant writers who review it historically. It... (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)
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development
The Impact of Complex Trauma on Development describes what happens cognitively and emotionally, behaviorally and relationally, to people who are repeatedly traumatized in childhood.
Part One... (more)
Treating Trauma: Relationship-Based Psychotherapy with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
Clinicians working with traumatized youth face many challenges in supporting growth and development while addressing the many negative consequences of abuse and neglect. When working with youth in... (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)