Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Understanding Children's Drawings
This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy. The book enables therapists to address the... (more)
Managing Boys' Behaviour
A practical guide for teachers and trainees on managing boys' behaviour; part of the behaviour management strand. A practical and engaging guide for teachers on tackling boys' behaviour problems. The... (more)
Culturally Competent Therapy: Working With Children and Young People
The need to respond effectively to every troubled child or young person has never been greater as the world witnesses a period of global anxiety. Increased migration, terrorism, ethnic conflict,... (more)
Sibling Relationships
For this volume, Prophecy Coles has brought together a group of distinguished writers to explore a wide range of issues affecting sibling relationships. This exciting collection of papers addresses a... (more)
The Social World of Pupil Career: Strategic Biographies Through Primary School
The second part of a seven-year ethnography of individual pupils from the ages of four to eleven in an English primary school. The book presents a sociological analysis of children coping with the... (more)
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens: Using Metaphors in Therapy
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens provides straightforward advice on using storytelling and metaphors in a variety of therapeutic settings. Ideal for all who work with young people, this unique... (more)
Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art: Using Draw-A-Story to Identify Children and Adolescents at Risk
This book investigates the connections between a child's expression through drawing and their violent behavior. It also explores the potential of the Draw a Story Test for use as an early identifier... (more)
New In Our Nation: Activities to Promote Self-Esteem and Resilience in Young Asylum Seekers
Refugee children have often experienced great disruption, violence and fear. They have frequently lost members of their family and may even have witnessed their deaths. They have left everything that... (more)
Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties: Book 2
This work develops the ideas in "Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties Book One: A Psycholinguistic Framework". It discusses how to identify children with speech and literacy problems and to... (more)
Someone Very Important Has Just Died: Immediate Help for People Caring for Children of All Ages at the Time of a Close Bereavement
A resource for professionals in all areas of work relating to bereavement. It is designed to be given to adults with children in their care at the time of a death. (more)
Promoting Emotional Well Being of Children and Adolescents and Preventing Their Mental Ill Health:
This comprehensive guide provides overviews of the key psychological processes affecting mental health, such as development, attachment, emotion regulation and attention, and draws out the... (more)
Fostering Adolescents
Adolescents are the hardest group to foster and have high rates of placement breakdown. This text examines what helps to make placements work. Key issues are explored, including peer relationships,... (more)
Adolescent Psychiatry: Vol.26
Tracks the evolution of adolescent psychiatry as it strives to keep pace with therapeutic and social responsibilities which, in the 21st century, have become increasingly intertwined. It draws... (more)
Adolescent Psychiatry: Vol.27
Volume 27 of "Adolescent Psychiatry" focuses on trauma and violence among adolescents, and attends especially to the psychological, biological and social impact of trauma of its victims, especially... (more)
Adolescent Psychiatry: Vol.25
A discussion of adolescent psychiatry. The chapters are divided into sections on: developmental issues; psychopathology in adolescence; psychotherapeutic approaches to adolescents; and forensic... (more)
Infant Observation at the Heart of Training
The study of infant observation is widely used as part of training to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist; the skills learned through infant observation can be widely applied to practicing... (more)
Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Psychoanalysis of Children and Adolescents
The central theme of this book is concerned with the controversies on technique between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the 1920s and 1930s, and with a clear differentiation between child analysis... (more)
Raising NLD Superstars: What Families with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Need to Know about Nurturing Confident, Competent Kid
Instead of insisting on a one-size-fits-all model of intervention, the author focuses on the individual nature of non-verbal learning disorder (NLD) and offers practical, adaptable advice that will... (more)
