Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Childhood Re-Imagined: Images and Narratives of Development in Analytical Psychology
What can Jungian psychology contribute to understanding children and childhood? This book considers Carl Jung's psychological approach to childhood and argues that his symbolic view deserves a place... (more)
What Works with Children, Adolescents and Adults? A Review of Research on the Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Provides an up-to-date review of research on the effectiveness of psychotherapy and psychological interventions with children, adolescents, adults, people in later life, and people with intellectual... (more)
Early Development and its Disturbances: Clinical, Conceptual and Empirical Research on ADHD and other Psychopathologies and its Epistemological Reflections
In this volume internationally well known experts discuss whether psychoanalysis - with its rich mix of clinical experiences and conceptualizations of early development and symptoms - has something... (more)
Therapy with Children: An Existential Perspective
This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children. Existential ideas and concepts are a rapidly growing influence on the... (more)
Technique in Child and Adolescent Analysis
These are the edited papers from a conference held in 2008 on the topic of problems with child and adolescent analysis. The contributors come from widely differing theoretical backgrounds and use a... (more)
The Early Years of Life: Psychoanalytical Development Theory According to Freud, Klein, and Bion
'This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the... (more)
Work With Young People: Theory and Policy for Practice
This authoritative text is a must-read for anyone working - or training to work - with young people. It considers how theory, policy and practice intersect and influence one another in today's... (more)
Doing Anger Differently: Helping Adolescent Boys
Young, non-verbal and aggressive adolescent boys often feel constricted within their family environment, swinging between explosive outbursts and sullen monosyllabic exchanges. Such exchanges are the... (more)
When Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders: Therapist Guide
Many children experience sleep problems and their parents often seek help for what can be a nightly disruption to the entire family. Difficulty getting a good nights sleep can also impact a childs... (more)
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)