Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Changing Destinies: The Re-Start Infant Family Programme for Early Autistic Behaviours
The term ‘pre-autism’ is becoming more widespread as a result of growing awareness of the importance of a child’s first three years of life in diagnosing behaviours which, if untreated, can develop... (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)
Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume Two: The Contemporary Adolescent: A Clinical Workbook for School-based Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists
This second edition serves as a practical handbook for school-based counsellors, psychotherapists, arts therapists and play therapists working with young people. Written in accessible language, it is... (more)
Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem: A Guidebook
This is a guidebook to help children who: "don't like themselves or feel there is something fundamentally wrong with them"; "have been deeply shamed"; "have received too much criticism or haven't... (more)
Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing
In Transforming Troubled Children, Teens, and Their Families: An Internal Family Systems Model for Healing, Dr Mones presents the first comprehensive application of the Internal Family Systems (IFS)... (more)
The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-being in Teachers and Students
With attention spans waning and stress rising, teachers are looking for new ways to help kids concentrate, learn, and thrive in a safe and creative atmosphere. The Way of Mindful Education is a... (more)
Group Play Therapy: A Dynamic Approach
Group Play Therapy presents an updated look at an effective yet underutilized therapeutic intervention. More than just an approach to treating children, group play therapy is a life-span approach,... (more)
Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles: Understanding the Experience of Miscarriage, Premature Births, Infertility, and Postnatal Depression
There are many books that deal with pregnancy and maternity, and a large number of magazines and articles on paediatric nursing that examine these subjects from different points of view. This volume... (more)
The Winnicott Tradition: Lines of Development—Evolution of Theory and Practice over the Decades
This volume in a book series on psychoanalytic leaders, provides a geographically global sampler of writing stemming from Winnicott’s complex and paradoxical thinking.
In the first section, on... (more)
Developing Mental Toughness in Young People: Approaches to Achievement, Well-being, Employability, and Positive Behaviour
The goal of this book is to describe the concept of 'Mental Toughness' in such a way that the reader understands the concept and understands how it relates to the development of young people of all... (more)
Siblings: Envy and Rivalry, Coexistence and Concern
This book consists of selected texts presented at the EFPP Conference in Cracow, Poland, in October 2011. It is an attempt at finding the place of sibling relationships in psychoanalytic theory and... (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)
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)
The Course of Life: A 1979 Lecture by Anna Freud (DVD)
Anna Freud delivered the lecture that is the basis for this film in the library of the Hampstead Centre in London, now the Anna Freud Centre. The year was 1979, she was 84 years old, and this was her... (more)
Therapeutic Practice in Schools: Working With the Child Within: A Clinical Workbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists
This book is an indispensable guide to providing therapy services for children and adolescents in primary and secondary school settings. The contributors have extensive experience in the field and... (more)
What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse
Childhood is defined in different preconceived manners by different discourses. Thus the categories defined by age such as infant, child, adolescent and so on, are to some extent arbitrary divisions... (more)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
Deprivation and Delinquency
An invaluable compilation of D.W. Winnicott's papers, talks, letters and lectures between 1930 and 1970, centred on the theme of the relationship between antisocial behaviour, or more chronically... (more)
Manual for Short-term Psychoanalytic Child Therapy (PaCT)
Manualisation of psychodynamic psychotherapy poses a formidable challenge, but may prove indispensable in the effort to disseminate short-term psychodynamic treatments to a wider patient community.... (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)
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)
Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Young People: An Introduction
Introducing key psychodynamic theory, concepts and techniques, this text examines the challenges and opportunities of counselling adolescents and children. The book explores a wide variety of... (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)
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)
Relational Trauma in Infancy: Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents. It makes an innovative contribution to the... (more)
Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach
An indispensable clinical resource, this groundbreaking book is the first treatment manual to focus specifically on adolescent bulimia nervosa. The authors draw on their proven approach to treating... (more)
The Infant's World
What do infants know? What do they feel, and how do they come to understand what's happening around them? How do they begin to construe others as persons with feelings and intentions? These questions... (more)
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents With PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences: Therapist Guide
Traumatic events, including sexual abuse, experiencing or witnessing violence, and natural disasters, are common among adolescents. A significant number of adolescents go on to develop posttraumatic... (more)
Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children
In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children. Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children offers a detailed comparative... (more)
Saying No: Why It's Important For You and Your Child
Asha Phillips writes as both a child psychotherapist and a mother, using case studies as well as informal anecdotes from family and friends as illustrations. She strips away the negative associations... (more)