Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Narrative Play Therapy: Theory and Practice
Narrative Play Therapy is a highly effective play-based psychological intervention that enables therapists to help children communicate difficult experiences and complex emotions through... (more)
Essentials of IDEA for Assessment Professionals
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) provides the guidelines for what school personnel must do, and are held accountable for, in their educational assessments and evaluations of... (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)
The Parents' Guide to Psychological First Aid: Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Predictable Life Crises
Does your young daughter talk endlessly about invisible friends, dragons in the basement, and monsters in the closet? Is your teenager about to start high school or being victimized by bullies? Is... (more)
Mental Health Treatment for Children and Adolescents
Mental health problems disrupt the lives of many young people and their families, putting them at risk for instability as adults. This is particularly true for children from vulnerable populations,... (more)
Childhood Depression: A Place for Psychotherapy
This title is based on the results of a project based at the Tavistock Clinic in London which set out to explore whether children and young people aged nine years to fifteen years suffering from... (more)
Engaging with Complexity: Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Education
Children and young people spend a great deal of their time in schools and other education settings. Consequently those working in such contexts have a huge impact and influence on the development,... (more)
Suffer the Children: The Case Against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative
A persuasive rejection of mainstream child psychiatry that guides parents to understand their child's behavioural problems without stigmatizing diagnoses. Disturbingly, a great number of children... (more)
Why Can't I Help this Child to Learn? Understanding Emotional Barriers to Learning
The book outlines theories of child development from the point of view of the kinds of relationships children make with adults and the effects of their relationships on their learning. In addition,... (more)
Young People and the Curse of Ordinariness
Again and again, young people return to the question, 'Am I the same as other people or am I different?' It's a difficult question to answer. Everyone knows that they're the same as other people in... (more)
The Creation of Imaginary Worlds: The Role of Art, Magic and Dreams in Child Development
Alongside the world of everyday reality, the young child develops an imaginary world of child art, make-believe play, daydreams, imaginary friends, fairy tales and magic. This book charts the... (more)
A Treatment Manual for Adolescents Displaying Harmful Sexual Behaviour
A resource for clinicians working therapeutically with male adolescents who have shown harmful sexual behaviour (HSB). Comprised of a printed manual and a CD-ROM, it is designed to be delivered over... (more)
Engaging Boys in Treatment: Creative Approaches to the Therapy Process
This edited book is the first of its kind to focus on creative approaches to the treatment of boys, providing a valuable resource for both students and professionals seeking new and effective... (more)
Child Anxiety Disorders: A Guide to Research and Treatment: Second Edition
Childhood anxiety disorders represent one of the most common psychological disorders found among the general population. They can be serious, distressful, and functionally impairing, so much so that... (more)
Advanced Play Therapy: Essential Conditions, Knowledge, and Skills for Child Practice
The purpose of this text is to present a resource to students and practitioners of play therapy that addresses topics beyond the training level. Current play therapy resources offer details on how to... (more)
The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic
There is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long-lasting effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved in... (more)
101 More Favorite Play Therapy Techniques
Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for easy reference and use.
The interventions... (more)
Play and Playfulness: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Aspects
While the psychodynamic understanding of play and play's therapeutic potential was long restricted to the realm of children, Winnicott's work demonstrated the profound significance of the capacity to... (more)
International Handbook of Play Therapy: Advances in Assessment, Theory, Research and Practice
In the past twenty-five years, the practice of play therapy has increased exponentially in America and throughout the world. This handbook brings together an international group of scholars and... (more)
Play Therapy Interventions with Children's Problems: Case Studies with DSM-IV-TR Diagnoses: Second Edition
This is an easy-to-use reference to the most effective play therapy techniques and their substantiated results. Play therapy is not an approach based on guess, trial and error, or whims of the... (more)
101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques: Volume 3
This book is an amazing resource for play therapy techniques. The contributors come from a diverse group including child-centered, cognitive-behavioral, gestalt, Jungian, psychodynamic, and... (more)
Play Therapy with Adolescents
Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play... (more)
Working with Bereaved Children and Young People
This book offers a fresh insight into working practices with children and young people who are experiencing the death of a family member, friend, school peer or in their social network. Bridging the... (more)
Therapy with Children: Children's Rights, Confidentiality and the Law: Second Edition
Therapy with Children is a vital resource for any practitioner navigating the legal minefield of working with children and young people. Prioritising the needs of the child as the client, the authors... (more)
Child-Centered Play Therapy
Highly practical, instructive, and authoritative, this book vividly describes how to conduct child-centered play therapy. The authors are master clinicians who explain core therapeutic principles and... (more)
The Nature of Adolescence: Fourth Edition
The new edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction to all of the key features of adolescent development. While drawing on the North American literature on adolescence, it... (more)
The Journey of Child Development: Selected Papers of Joseph D. Noshpitz
As founder and past president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and president of the American Association of Childrens Residential Centers, Joseph Noshpitz was at the... (more)
The First Year and the Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development, and Psychotherapeutic Change
The movement repertoire that develops in the first year of life is a language in itself and conveys desires, intentions, and emotions. This early life in motion serves as the roots of ongoing... (more)