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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)

Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal through the Art of Play

by Kevin B. Hull

Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal Through the Art of Play is for the mental health professional (psychologist, licensed counselor,... (more)

Healing after Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations

Edited by Richard Ruth, Phyllis Cohen

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

Edited by Nancy Riedel Bowers

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

by Deborah Serani

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

by Cheryl Arnold, Ralph Fisch

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

Edited by Toni V. Heineman, June M. Clausen

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

by Julie Tilsen

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)

Failure to Launch: Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult

by Michael DeVine

Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children. The book first attempts to define the problem of failure to launch as well as identify the underlying... (more)

The Uses of Psychoanalysis in Working with Children's Emotional Lives

Edited by Michael O'Loughlin

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with... (more)

Child Psychology: A Very Short Introduction

by Usha Goswami

This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers... (more)

Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Recent Advances and Innovations in Assessment, Education, and Intervention

Edited by James K. Luiselli

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a relatively new diagnostic label which reflects the variability and differentiation of symptomatology among children and youth commonly described as having autistic... (more)

Clinical Topics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Edited by Sarah Huline-Dickens

Up to one in ten children may have a clinically significant psychiatric disorder. This book is a comprehensive update on the field of psychiatric disorders in children and young people. Conditions... (more)

Perinatal Mental Health: The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) Manual: Second Edition

by John Cox, Jeni Holden

The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a questionnaire and is a simple means of screening for postnatal depression in health care settings. This is a practical guide to using the scale in... (more)

Am I Depressed and What Can I Do About it?: A CBT Self-Help Guide for Teenagers Experiencing Low Mood and Depression

by Shirley Reynolds, Monika Parkinson

Depression is one of the most common mental health problems and is estimated to affect around 15 per cent of people at some point during their life. For many people depression is a life-long disorder... (more)

Treating The Other Third: Vicissitudes of Adolescent Development and Therapy

by H. Spencer Bloch

As “evidence-based research” on psychodynamic psychotherapy for children and adolescents gains momentum, it seems to be following adult psychiatry in moving increasingly toward biomedical/genetic... (more)

The Elephant in the ADHD Room: Beating Boredom as the Secret to Managing ADHD

by Letitia Sweitzer

Boredom and boredom avoidance drive the behaviours of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity - the diagnostic criteria of ADHD. This is the first ADHD resource to thoroughly explore the... (more)

Executive Function "Dysfunction": Strategies for Educators and Parents

by Rebecca A. Moyes

Concise and accessible, this plain English guide will help parents and educators to understand and support children with executive function difficulties at home and in the classroom. The author... (more)

Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children: Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting

by Kim S. Golding

Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.... (more)

Play Therapy in the Outdoors: Taking Play Therapy out of the Playroom and into Natural Environments

by Alison Chown

Championing the therapeutic power of nature, this book explores why outdoor play therapy offers children more than being confined to a playroom and how practice can be moved into the natural... (more)

Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Unpack my Heart with Words

by Marion Baraitser, Gillie Bolton

Reading and Expressive Writing with Traumatised Children, Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers explores how literature can be used to help young victims cope with their experiences. The process of... (more)

What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents: Second Edition

by Peter Fonagy, David Cottrell

The standard reference in the field, this acclaimed work synthesizes findings from hundreds of carefully selected studies of mental health treatments for children and adolescents. Chapters on... (more)

Group Work with Adolescents: Principles and Practice: Third Edition

by Andrew Malekoff

A trusted course text and professional resource, this comprehensive book delves into all aspects of planning and conducting strengths-based group work with adolescents. In an accessible,... (more)

Case Formulation with Children and Adolescents

by Katharina Manassis

Highly practical and accessible, this book shows how to synthesize complex information about child and adolescent mental health problems into clinically useful, dynamic case formulations. Strategies... (more)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Integration of Cognitive, Neuropsychological, and Psychodynamic Perspectives in Psychotherapy

Edited by Francine Conway

For many researchers, clinicians, teachers, patients, and family members, the discourse on ADHD has been occurring in silos. Traditional ADHD camps are organized primarily in terms of neurological... (more)

Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within: Second Edition

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