Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Lives Across Time/Growing Up: Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People
Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. Children traverse continuous or discontinuous courses. This book describes... (more)
Chronic Illness in Children and Adolescents
Management of chronic illness in children and adolescents often is a multifaceted challenge that requires the attention and expertise of individuals from a variety of disciplines that include... (more)
Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and Prevention Science
Divided into 5 parts, this book talks about: biological and social universals in development; characteristics of brain and behaviour in development; and effects of early maltreatment and stress on... (more)
Reaching the Hard to Reach: Evidence-based Funding Priorities for Intervention and Research
Social inequality and social disadvantage provide an all too fertile soil that sustains the majority of the serious mental health problems suffered by children in our society. The complexity of the... (more)
Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 by C. G. Jung
In the 1930s C.G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his... (more)
Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents
Adoption has become widely practiced, accepted, and accessible, and has greatly changed the composition of families making it a timely subject for study. The authors of Understanding Adoption... (more)
Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around
The question, "Why and how does child psychotherapy work?" underlies everything in this book. To answer this fundamental question, Lenore Terr contacted leading child and adolescent psychiatrists... (more)
Adolescent Girls in Crisis Intervention and Hope
From anorexia to sex to depression and pregnancy, the lives of teen girls are often awash in rage and despair. Martha B. Straus, a seasoned therapist, describes how to reach the children behind these... (more)
Children with Sexual Behavior Problems: Family-Based, Attachment-Focused Therapy
Prevailing taboos about sex and the misconception that sexually inappropriate touching, language, and other actions by children are always signs of sexual abuse lead families to hide problems.... (more)
The Amazing Infant
For years parents and professionals marveled at the complexity of infants, but it was not until the 21st century, when explosive advancements in neuroscience began taking place, that sophisticated... (more)
Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial
This volume provides the first rigorous assessment of the research relating to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, along with the practical and policy implications of the findings. Leading... (more)
Healing Children's Grief: Surviving a Parent's Death from Cancer
Using qualitative analytic methods, this book identifies five developmentally derived age groups that clarify important differences in children's grief and mourning processes, in their understanding... (more)
Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Adapting Psychodynamic Treatment to Contemporary Practice: Second Edition
This readable guide for therapists and therapists in training lays out the theoretical essence and practical essentials of doing child and adolescent psychotherapy from the referral call to the last... (more)
The Child within: Taking the Young Person's Perspective by Applying Personal Construct Psychology: Second Edition
Understanding a child's viewpoint is often considered helpful within child clinical psychology. Personal construct theory offers a practical method that allows children to express their viewpoint... (more)
Personality Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
This work includes topics such as: assessment, treatment, conceptualization, clinical strategies, and family treatment. This valuable resource contains the latest developments in treatment and... (more)
The Evolution of Family Patterns and Indirect Therapy with Adolescents
This text presents a picture of contemporary family patterns that might produce problems of social and psychopathologic deviance in adolescents. It is the outcome of the teamwork of 32 researchers... (more)
A Big and a Little One is Gone: Crisis Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy
This is a story from inside the child psychologist's room. Victor, who is two and a half years old, has lost his mother and younger brother in a car accident. He is 'sunny and happy' and does not... (more)
Standing on their Own Feet: You and Your Younger Adolescent
Young children are cute and delightful or are having temper tantrums. Primary school children are eager and enthusiastic; gaining mastery of their world; defiant and difficult at times, but still... (more)
The Performance of Practice: Enhancing the Repertoire of Therapy with Children and Families
'This book is about how to maintain an aliveness to the possibilities in therapy and practice and how to challenge ideas of orthodoxy in theory and methodologies that can become stale or followed... (more)
On Having an Own Child: Reproductive Technologies and the Cultural Construction of Childhood
How are ideas of genetics, 'blood', the family, and relatedness created and consumed?
This is the first book ever to consider in depth why people want children, and specifically why people want... (more)
Help Him Make You Smile: The Development of Intersubjectivity in the Atypical Child
This book focuses on the development of self and intersubjectivity in infants, and the parent-child and family interactions that help facilitate it. A unique, step by step account of how these... (more)
Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and
This important volume brings together an array of prominent developmental scientists whose work is explicitly driven by evolutionary concerns. Topics covered include parent-child relationships,... (more)
Nurture Groups in School and at Home: Connecting with Children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
This book explores the ways in which pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties can be effectively engaged in schooling either in school or at home. It explains the social and... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Offering a judicious balance of theory and practical discussion, "Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents" focuses on the essential knowledge needed to work therapeutically with... (more)
Baby and Me: DVD
Babies are learning from the moment they are born. Positive interactions between ourselves and our babies set the foundations for building pleasurable relationships. This encourages the development... (more)
Extending Thought in Young Children: A Parent-Teacher Partnership
In this fully revised version of Chris Athey's classic text, the author builds on her original research with new illustrations of 'continuity' in children's thinking from early to primary education.... (more)
Understanding Your Young Child with Special Needs
Understanding Your Young Child with special needs" explores the developmental impact of disability on normal stages of child development, and examines the complex nature of the emotional bonds... (more)