Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Treating Bulimia in Adolescents: A Family-Based Approach
See catalogue number 29105 for the paperback edition. An indispensable clinical resource, this groundbreaking book is the first treatment manual to focus specifically on adolescent bulimia nervosa.... (more)
Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence
Offering a fresh perspective on treatment, this book presents an overarching framework and many specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. The authors shed light on the... (more)
Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say No Way - And Parents Say Way to Go
Fourteen-year-old Eric is plagued by thoughts that germs on his hands could be making his family sick. Kelly, age eight, feels distressed if she can't count her pencils in multiples of four. No one... (more)
Ordinary Families, Special Children: A Systems Approach to Childhood Disability: Third Edition (Hardback)
See catalogue number 28887 for the paperback edition. Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this popular clinical reference and text provides a multisystems perspective on childhood disability... (more)
Resilient Therapy: Working with Children and Families
Using detailed case material from a range of contexts, this book illustrates how resilient mechanisms work in complex situations, and how resilient therapy works in real-life situations. Whilst much... (more)
Containment and Reciprocity: Integrating Psychoanalytic Theory and Child Development Research for Work with Children
"Containment and Reciprocity" shows how the psychoanalytic concept of containment and the child development concept of reciprocity can be used together to inform clinical work with young children and... (more)
Choosing to Heal: Using Reality Therapy in the Treatment of Sexually Abused Children
The number of sexual abuse disclosures by children has been increasing at a steady rate. Therapists are faced with the dilemma of limited resources and training to help them best serve this... (more)
The War for Children's Minds
Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they should adopt. Political and religious leaders including Blair and Bush... (more)
A Playworker's Guide to Understanding Children's Behaviour: Working with the 8-12 Age Group
How do I manage an aggressive child positively when I have twenty other children who need my attention? How can I develop a good relationship with a child I seem to dislike? How do I maintain a... (more)
Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorders
This clinically wise and pragmatic book presents a systematic approach for treating any form of childhood anxiety using proven exposure-based techniques. What makes this rigorously tested modular... (more)
Searching to be Found: Understanding and Helping Adopted and Looked After Children with Attention Difficulties
A practical, supportive book for adoptive parents, carers, teachers and other professionals who live and work with families and children whose happiness and behaviours are affected by attention... (more)
Your Teenager: Thinking About Your Child During the Secondary School Years
This volume contains Martha Harris’ three short books for parents originally published separately in 1969 in a series on child development: Your Eleven-year-old; Your Twelve to Fourteen Year Old; and... (more)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
This highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multi-problem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior and self-injury. The... (more)
Adult Children of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Breaking the Ties That Bind
An examination of adults who have been manipulated by divorcing parents. Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) occurs when divorcing parents use children as pawns, trying to turn the child against the... (more)
Stolen Tomorrows: Understanding and Treating Women's Childhood Sexual Abuse
See catalogue number 26947 for the paperback edition. "Stolen Tomorrows" will encourage women who have been abused to think about, talk about and seek help for what has been their secret shame. It... (more)
No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individality
The author of the controversial "The Nurture Assumption" tackles the biggest mystery of psychology: What makes people differ so much in personality and behaviour? The search leads Judith Rich Harris... (more)
My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives
For decades, mothers were thought to be the only real influence on a child. Now we recognise that the father's involvement also has a profound impact but how sons affect their fathers is too often... (more)
The Mindful Brain in Human Development: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-being
'Welcome to a journey into the heart of our lives'. With these words Daniel Siegel - scientist, psychiatrist, educator, and a leader in the field of mental health, draws us into a rich and... (more)
The Confident Child: Raising Children to Believe in Themselves
Raising confident, motivated and caring children is a parent's greatest challenge. Drawing on her extensive research on children and parents, Terri Apter has created a guide based on "emotional... (more)
Working to be Someone: Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children
"Working to be Someone" presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that takes the children's own points of view of their work into account. It aims to highlight and discuss... (more)
Making an Impact: Children and Domestic Violence - A Reader: Second Edition
This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for... (more)
Living Alongside a Child's Recovery: Therapeutic Parenting with Traumatized Children
The idea of using therapeutic parenting to help with the recovery of traumatized children is the focus in the latest title in the "Delivering Recovery" series, "Living Alongside a Child's Recovery".... (more)
Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem: A Photocopiable Activities Book: Second Edition
"Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem" is packed with fun and effective activities to help children develop and maintain healthy self-esteem. New and updated material has been added including a... (more)
Healing the Inner City Child: Creative Arts Therapies with At-Risk Youth
"Healing the Inner City Child" presents a diverse practical collection of creative arts therapies approaches that meet the ever-increasing mental health needs of inner city children, whose exposure... (more)
Conduct Disorder and Offending Behaviour in Young People: Findings from Research
Offending behaviour in young people is a problem not only for affected neighbours and communities; it is also a serious problem to the young people involved. Behaviour problems and involvement in... (more)
Working with Parents and Infants: A Mind-Body Integration Approach
Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health and illness, and the inseparability of psyche and... (more)
Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications for Mental Health Assessment
Around the world, many immigrant and minority children are immersed in mental health, social welfare, and educational systems that are ill equipped to evaluate and help them. This important volume... (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)