Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Simple Guide to Understanding Shame in Children: What It Is and How to Help
What is shame? * How does it affect children? * How can adults help? The perfect starting point for any adult or carer working with children who have experienced shame, this guide provides... (more)
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha Harris
This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and... (more)
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist
On Children Who Privilege the Body: Reflections of an Independent Psychotherapist brings together selected papers from the career of Ann Horne, and interrogates her vast experience in the field of... (more)
Therapeutic Adventures with Autistic Children: Connecting through Movement, Play and Creativity
A vivid exploration of working with autistic children using empowering techniques from a range of creative therapies. Each chapter in this heartening book is the story of a child with autism and how... (more)
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children offers a thorough overview of the problems and rewards of trying to help... (more)
Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care
Socially excluded youth with mental health problems and co-occurring difficulties (e.g. conduct disorder, family breakdown, homelessness, substance use, exploitation, educational failure) attract the... (more)
Working with Co-Parents: A Manual for Therapists
Working with Co-Parents: A Manual for Therapists is a hands-on guide for therapists who work with divorced, separated and divorcing parents of children. Unique among other books that focus on therapy... (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)
Learning About Human Nature and Analytic Technique from Mothers and Babies
We have much to learn from mothers and babies, not just about early life psychic phenomena that are active in us, but also about the analytic technique, when the internal setting becomes more... (more)
Guided Imagery Work with Kids: Essential Practices to Help Them Manage Stress, Reduce Anxiety and Build Self-Esteem
Guided imagery - or visualizations - can be very effective in alleviating a host of common emotional issues in kids, from anxiety and insecurity to stress, anger, and the effects of bullying. This... (more)
The Collected Works of Melanie Klein
A four-volume set including Melanie Klein's best-known works.
This is a facsimile edition of the 1975 Hogarth Press four-volume set.
Volume I - “Love, Guilt and Reparation” and Other Works... (more)
Boarding School Syndrome: The Psychological Trauma of the 'Privileged' Child
Boarding School Syndrome is an analysis of the trauma of the 'privileged' child sent to boarding school at a young age. Innovative and challenging, Joy Schaverien offers a psychological analysis of... (more)
Surviving and Thriving in Care and Beyond: Personal and Professional Perspectives
This is a book about children who have to grow up apart from their biological parents, the impact of this on their lives and on those who look after them, and how we can respond to the challenges... (more)
From Pregnancy to Motherhood: Psychoanalytic Aspects of the Beginnings of the Mother-Child Relationship
From Pregnancy to Motherhood explores the mental states associated with pregnancy, birth and the early days of motherhood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Drawing on clinical research findings and... (more)
Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
Have you ever thought: "I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents?" In Parenting from the Inside Out,... (more)
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain: Second Edition
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and... (more)
The Twin in the Transference
Second Revised Edition
The universal phantasy of having a twin originates in our earliest relational experiences. This book is about twins and twinning processes. The existence of an actual... (more)
Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst
If advances in medical technology now allow babies to be born earlier and survive premature birth, what of the psychical impact of this emergence into the world? What consequences can premature birth... (more)
Sibling Matters: A Psychoanalytic, Developmental, and Systemic Approach
This original book gives a timely exploration of the importance of sibling relationships from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It presents for the first time an account of the work on brothers and... (more)
Young Child Observation: A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation
Observing young children at play is an everyday and often fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud’s... (more)
Starving the Stress Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Stress Management for Young People
Watch out for the Stress Gremlin - he loves to feed on your stress, and as he gets bigger and bolder, you get more and more stressed! How can he be stopped? Don't give him any more stress to eat, and... (more)
Winnicott's Children: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Winnicott's Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of D.W. Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has... (more)
Young Children and their Parents: Perspectives from Psychoanalytic Infant Observation
The book describes, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the development of the parent-infant relationship in the first years of life. It follows the development of the child's relationship to his or... (more)
Working with Teenage Parents: Handbook of Theory and Practice
Includes DVD of Observation clips.
For practitioners working with pregnant teenagers, young parents and their children.
Parenting, like adolescence, is a profoundly disturbing experience,... (more)
Minding the Child: Mentalization-based Interventions with Children, Young People and Their Families
What is "mentalization"? How can this concept be applied to clinical work with children, young people and families? What will help therapists working with children and families to "keep the mind in... (more)
Enabling and Inspiring: A Tribute to Martha Harris
Martha Harris (1919-1987) was one of the most influential and also one of the most loved psychoanalysts of the generation that trained with Melanie Klein. She also worked with Wilfred Bion, and wrote... (more)
Treating Complex Trauma in Adolescents and Young Adults
The first practical and research-based manual to guide students and practitioners on working specifically with traumatized adolescents. John Briere and Cheryl Lanktree fill a gap in what's currently... (more)
Infant Observation and Research: Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives
Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research method is being recognised,... (more)