Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need: Helping Children to Develop Mindfulness, Spiritual Awareness and Self-Esteem
Art-based activities can develop presilience and self-esteem, enabling children in need to cope better with ongoing stress and loss. Arts Activities for Children and Young People in Need offers... (more)
Mental Handicap and the Human Condition: An Analytic Approach to Intellectual Disability: Second Updated Edition
This book was an instant classic when it first appeared in 1992 and has continued to be a key text ever since. Easy to read yet profound in its meaning, it offers hope to professionals, family... (more)
A Child in Pain: What Health Professionals Can Do to Help
Unlike so many of the works on this topic, this book provides specific language that will help children manage the full spectrum of the pain experience, both on a sensory and an emotional level. The... (more)
Navigating Teenage Depression: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
First symptoms of depression often occur during teenage years, and it can be a disturbing and confusing time for families as well as the teenager themselves.
How can you tell whether it is just... (more)
Marital Conflict and Children: An Emotional Security Perspective
From leading researchers, this book presents important advances in understanding how growing up in a discordant family affects child adjustment, the factors that make certain children more vulnerable... (more)
Helping Bereaved Children: A Handbook for Practitioners: Third Edition
This acclaimed work presents a range of counseling and therapy approaches for children who have experienced loss. Practitioners and students are given practical strategies for helping preschoolers... (more)
Gifted Lives: What Happens When Gifted Children Grow Up
This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Written by an award-winning psychologist who has meticulously... (more)
The Extremes of the Bell Curve
Discusses evidence from Swedish population data suggesting that children who achieve either exceptionally high, or very low grades at school, are at greater risk of adult mental health. (more)
Core Principles of Assessment and Therapeutic Communication with Children, Parents and Families: Towards the Promotion of Child and Family Wellbeing
Practitioners today are confronted by a bewildering array of therapies as cure alls. This book provides an integrated approach to working with children, parents and families that can be applied by... (more)
Collaborative Brief Therapy with Children
In this engaging guide, Matthew Selekman presents cutting-edge strategies for helping children and their families overcome a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. Vivid case material... (more)
A Parent's Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family After the Death of a Loved One
When children lose someone they love, they lose part of their very identity. Life, as they knew it, will never be quite the same. The world that once felt dependable and safe may suddenly seem a... (more)
Emotion in Memory and Development: Biological, Cognitive, and Social Considerations
The question of how well children recall and can discuss emotional experiences is one with numerous theoretical and applied implications. Theoretically, the role of emotions generally and emtional... (more)
A Clinician's Guide to Normal Cognitive Development in Childhood
This book marries developmental science with clinical practice. It's a great resource for anyone who works with children, including teachers, clinicians, childcare providers, and parents. Children's... (more)
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness: Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's... (more)
Helping Children and Young People Who Self-Harm: An Introduction to Self-harming and Suicidal Behaviours for Health Professionals
Every year over 25,000 young people attend emergency departments with problems resulting from self-harm. More still come to the attention of CAMHS teams, school nurses and other community-based... (more)
Childhood Disorders: Second Edition
In this revised edition Philip C. Kendall and Jonathan S. Comer present current information about the full range of psychological disorders that occur in childhood, and discuss the major models that... (more)
Adolescence, Pregnancy and Abortion: Constructing A Threat of Degeneration
Why does the narrative of the negative consequences of teenage pregnancy, abortion and childbearing persist? This book outlines a critical view of "teenage pregnancy" and abortion, arguing that the... (more)
The Development of the Person
The definitive work on a groundbreaking study, this essential volume provides a coherent picture of the complexity of development from birth to adulthood. Both the methodology of the Minnesota study... (more)
Safeguarding Children from Emotional Maltreatment: What Works
Emotional maltreatment is widespread and has a profoundly harmful effect on a child's development. The effects of abuse are often carried into adulthood, and emotionally abused children are more... (more)
A Practical Guide to Caring for Children and Teenagers with Attachment Difficulties
This book guides childcare professionals through attachment theory and provides techniques for caring for children with attachment difficulties. It explains what attachment is, what different... (more)
Adolescents, Music and Music Therapy: Methods and Techniques for Clincians, Educators and Students
When guided effectively, the relationship between adolescents and music can offer powerful opportunities for expression and release. This book provides music therapists with the complete 'how to' of... (more)
Safeguarding Children in Primary Health Care
Safeguarding children from harm has, until recently, been driven primarily by social work practitioners. With current shifts in child care and protection practice and policy, combined with an... (more)
Counselling and Supporting Children and Young People: A Person-centred Approach
This book is the ideal introduction to counselling and supporting children and young people. Taking a person-centred approach, Mark Prever offers readers a clear understanding of the theory and... (more)
The ADHD Toolkit
Are you struggling with students who have ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)? There is likely to be at least one student in any mainstream class with ADHD, an evolving concept that... (more)
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life
For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has... (more)
Infant Losses; Adult Searches: A Neural and Developmental Perspective on Psychopathology and Sexual Offending
An innovative view of the development of psychopathology and sexual offending. In an exciting synthesis of neuroscience, developmental, and social psychology with forensic and criminal literature, it... (more)
The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence
Recent research confirms that the brain undergoes major development during adolescence. This book reviews the neuroscience of the adolescent brain and how this knowledge is revolutionising our... (more)
From Rage to Courage: Answers to Readers' Letters
Alice Miller has received countless letters from readers all over the world. From Rage to Courage assembles the most recent, illuminating the issues and consequences of childhood abuse. Whether... (more)
How to Talk to Families About Child and Adolescent Mental Illness
When a young person suffers from an anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, the entire family supporting that young person suffers, too.
This is a practical and accessible... (more)