Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Contemporary Play Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice
Presenting the most recent advances in play therapy, including evidence-based approaches, this current volume is clinically oriented and features numerous case examples. Its coverage includes... (more)
The Children Who Lived: Using Harry Potter and Other Fictional Characters to Help Grieving Children and Adolescents
"The Children Who Lived" is a unique approach toward grief and loss in children. Focusing on fictional child and adolescent characters experiencing grief, this book uses classic tales and the Harry... (more)
Children's Anxiety: A Contextual Approach
An introduction to anxiety in children and teenagers, emphasising the importance of understanding the life circumstances of young people. The book provides an up-to-date account of research on the... (more)
Theory of Mind: How Children Understand Other's Thoughts and Feelings
Most of us are continually aware that others have thoughts and feelings - but are children? This book is a concise and readable review of the extensive research into children's understanding of what... (more)
A Child's Journey to Recovery: Assessment and Planning for Traumatized Children
This book shows how carefully planned and assessed treatment can help traumatized children. It outlines how to set up a process for measuring a child's progress towards recovery. Uniquely, the book... (more)
Understanding Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing in Children: Management Strategies for Parents and Professionals
Children with Regulation Disorders of Sensory Processing struggle to regulate their emotions and behaviors in response to sensory stimulation. This book explains how to recognize these disorders,... (more)
Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: A Common-sense Guide for Parents and Professionals
This easy-to-read guide offers a complete overview of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLDs) and the wide variety of symptoms that different types of NLD present. Maggie Mamen enables readers to... (more)
Understanding Controversial Therapies for Children with Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Offering a balanced overview of complementary and alternative therapies, this book will be useful for parents of children with autism, ADD or other learning disabilities. The book covers a wide... (more)
Play Therapy with Abused Children: Second Edition
This second edition of Ann Cattanach's highly commended book explores the uses of play therapy with abused children as a way of helping them to heal their distress and make sense of their experiences... (more)
Nurturing Attachments: Supporting Children Who are Fostered or Adopted
Combines the experience and wisdom of parents and carers with that of professionals to provide support and practical guidance for foster and adoptive parents looking after children with insecure... (more)
Narrative Approaches in Play with Children
Narrative play is a way of communicating with children using imaginative stories and narratives to share and make sense of life events. This book describes using narrative play therapeutically with... (more)
Help Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track: What Parents and Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems. The book... (more)
Grief in Young Children: A Handbook for Adults
It is a common misconception that preschool children are not capable of experiencing grief in the same way that older children do. This book challenges this assumption, demonstrating that although... (more)
Grief in Children: A Handbook for Adults: Second Edition
This fully updated second edition of explains childrens understanding of death at different ages and gives a detailed outline of exactly how the adults around them can best help them cope. Whether a... (more)
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and Their Families: Building Secure New Lives
Written in consultation with experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this book gives guidance on making evidence-based assessments and... (more)
The Thought That Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
In this book for young people who have been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Jared Kant discusses his own experiences with the illness, and the disruption and distress that it... (more)
Assessing the Support Needs of Adopted Children and their Families
See catalogue number 27036 for the paperback edition. Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth relatives, this... (more)
What You Must Think of Me: A Firsthand Account of One Teenagers Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder
We've all felt occasional pangs of shyness and self-consciousness, but for those suffering from social anxiety disorder, the fear of being scrutinized and criticized can reach disabling proportions.... (more)
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and... (more)
Child Anxiety Disorders: A Family-Based Treatment Manual for Practitioners
Presenting a clinically proven treatment protocol based on a collaborative, family-based approach, this book incorporates family therapy strategies and CBT techniques in a session-by-session format... (more)
The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective
Presenting a wide range of practical interventions (including art therapy, video therapy, and play therapy), Carole Gammer provides a comprehensive set of tools to use with children who are part of a... (more)
Childhood, Well-Being and a Therapeutic Ethos
A key theme of this book is that we urgently need a therapeutic ethos in order to bring both educational and therapeutic sensibilities to bear on the issue of children's wellbeing, if truly effective... (more)
Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development
Humans take longer to reach maturity than most other species on earth. We are the Peter Pans of the Animal Kingdom. In this engaging and insightful look at the nature of childhood, developmental... (more)
The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education
Forced learning, or 'hot-housing', of infants has become increasingly popular in recent years - but does it work? The plasticity of the adolescent and adult brain is becoming gradually acknowledged... (more)
Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals
This volume provides practitioners with clear, helpful information about the process of understanding and engaging a wide array of boys and adolescent males in counseling. It supplies case examples... (more)
Patchwork: Children, Trauma and Therapy
A pioneering exploration of the creation of resilience in infants, children and their families living in modern Israel. The chapters cover topics such as children's adaptation to Kibbutz life and... (more)
Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins
A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. "Indivisible by... (more)