Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Childhood Victimization: Violence, Crime, and Abuse in the Lives of Young People
Children are the most criminally victimized segment of the population. Despite the fact that the priority emphasis in academic research and government policy has traditionally gone to studying... (more)
Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology
Social cognition refers to the capacity to think about others thoughts, intentions, feelings, attitudes and perspectives and enables us to engage in the activities that humans value most, such as... (more)
Improving Children's Mental Health Through Parent Empowerment: A Guide to Assisting Families
This book is an essential guide for parent advisors and counsellors, to helping parents take charge of their childrens mental health care. The book is divided into four parts for easy reference: Part... (more)
Riding the Wave: Workbook
This workbook is designed to help adolescents cope with panic disorder and agrophobia, with easy to understand explanations and teen friendly forms.
Mastery of Anxiety and Panic for Adolescents: Riding the Wave - Therapist Guide
The treatment described in this Therapist Guide is specifically designed for adolescents with panic disorder and agoraphobia. Panic disorder often first appears in adolescence, making effective... (more)
When Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders: Parent Workbook
If your child suffers from sleep problems, you are aware of the toll it can take on your child and your family. You may hope your child will just grow out of it, but this is not usually the case. You... (more)
Helping Parents with Challenging Children: Positive Family Intervention: Parent Workbook
Having a child with challenging behaviour can be frustrating and affect the entire family. This workbook will help you take a more positive attitude toward your child and carry out effective steps to... (more)
Helping Parents with Challenging Children: Positive Family Intervention: Facilitator Guide
One of the main concerns of parents of children with developmental disabilities such as autism is the management of problem behaviour. Frequent incidents of aggression, self-injury, and tantrums,... (more)
Coping Power: Child Group Program: Facilitator Guide
This program is an evidence-based program for dealing with behavioural problems in pre-adolescent children, concentrating on children who are beginning to show signs of severe aggression amd social... (more)
Coping Power: Parent Group Program: Facilitator Guide
This program is an evidence-based intervention for aggressive behaviour in pre-adolescent children. This program teaches positive strategies for coping with perceived conflict or threat, as well as... (more)
Its Only a False Alarm: Workbook
It's Only a False Alarm: Workbook is written for children and adolescents ages 8 - 17 who are undergoing treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Designed to be used in conjunction with the... (more)
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Childhood OCD: It's Only a False Alarm - Therapist Guide
OCD is characterised by a pattern of rituals (or compulsions) and obsessive thinking. Common obsessions among children and teens include a fear of dirt or germs, a need for symmetry, order, and... (more)
Anxiety: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People
Cognitive behavioural therapy has proven to be an effective treatment for anxiety disorders in children and young people. This book provides an overview of CBT and explores how it can be used to help... (more)
Mental Health Interventions and Services for Vulnerable Children and Young People
This book provides a model which offers guidance on effective and appropriate therapeutic interventions and services for vulnerable children and young people (commonly children who have experienced... (more)
Working with Young Homeless People
Young homeless people are ordinary young people trapped in an extraordinary situation. This accessible guide provides information and advice on how to understand the needs of these young people, and... (more)
Overcoming Loss: Activities and Stories to Help Transform Children's Grief and Loss
"Overcoming Loss" is a photocopiable resource that addresses childrens feeling of loss, which can arise from changing communities, schools, moving house, divorce or the death of a parent or... (more)
Challenging the Gifted Child: An Open Approach to Working with Advanced Young Readers
Gifted children are quick on the uptake, can be frustrated by repetition and easily become impatient when unchallenged. "Challenging the Gifted Child" outlines a tried and tested approach for... (more)
Making Sense of Children's Thinking and Behavior: A Step by Step Tool for Understanding Children Diagnosed with NLD, Aspergers, HFA, PDD-NOS, and Other Neurological Differences
Offers parents and professionals a tool for understanding children with neurological differences. These children have an atypical view of the world, unique to their particular disability, which can... (more)
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Divorce: What Children Need to Know
Is it my fault that my parents are getting divorced? Do I have to choose between my mum and my dad? Is it normal to feel angry with my parents? When faced with their parents' divorce, children have... (more)
Great Answers to Difficult Questions About Adoption: What Children Need to Know
Why was I abandoned? Why did my parents adopt me? What if I want to meet my biological parents? Children who find out they are adopted have many questions that are difficult for a parent to answer.... (more)
Feeling Like Crap: Young People and the Meaning of Self-esteem
We use the word all the time, but what exactly is 'self-esteem', and how do young people develop it? "Feeling Like Crap" explores how a young person's self is constructed, and what might help that... (more)
Music Therapy with Children and Their Families
In the past, music therapy work with children typically took place in special schools without the family being present. More recently, music therapy has become a widespread practice, and this book... (more)
Children with Mental Disorder and the Law: A Guide to Law and Practice
Children and young people with complex mental health needs are increasingly being cared for within specialist mental health care settings, either in the community or in in-patient facilities. With... (more)
Breaking Free from OCD: A CBT Guide for Young People and Their Families
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a potentially life long debilitating disorder, which often emerges during teenage years and affects as many as 1 in 50 people.Young people living with OCD... (more)
Listening to Children: A Practitioner's Guide
"Listening to children" is one of those feel-good phrases that always features in childcare literature as if it were self-evidently a good thing. Often however, there is a lack of critical attention... (more)
Child Anxiety Theory and Treatment: A Special Issue of Cognition and Emotion
Despite the negative impact of anxiety in children, theories and research have lagged behind their adult counterparts. This special issue arose from an Economic and Social Research Council funded... (more)
Child-Friendly Therapy: Biopsychosocial Innovations for Children and Families
Finding a therapy that fits children - one that cuts through their state of overstimulation and aversion to traditional language-based methods - is not easy. Now in paperback, this treasure trove of... (more)
Children in Genocide: Extreme Traumatization and Affect Regulation
'This book, containing untold suffering by children caught in the midst of extreme social violence, gives voice to their unthinkable, unspeakable experience and makes this into a telling... (more)
Bipolar Kids: Helping Your Child Find Calm in the Mood Storm
From a leading child psychiatrist, here is a comprehensive parents'paperback guide to understanding - and managing - paediatric bipolar disorder. Once considered an adult illness, bipolar disorder... (more)
Therapeutic Engagement of Children and Adolescents: Play, Symbol, Drawing, and Storytelling Strategies
This book addresses the challenges faced when children who refuse to talk, children who lack psychological mindedness, teens who experience a strong aversion to the influence of any adult, and... (more)