Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Handbook of Adolescent Development
What specifically characterises adolescents? What does it mean to be young at the beginning of the twenty-first century? "Handbook of Adolescent Development" fills a gap in the literature on... (more)
How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish examine the inevitable stresses faced by parents of teenagers. Through role play and discussion, they show how to keep communication open with rebellious offspring, how... (more)
You and Your Mid-Adolescent
This is a book which seeks help those going through the process of mid-adolescence - either from the point of view of the adolescent or their families - it attends to the serious strains that may... (more)
The Development of Consciousness: An Integrative Model of Child Development, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Using 'Freud's Project for a scientific psychology' as a starting point, this book is a brilliant new approach that combines psychoanalytical research with neuroscience. Its aim is to to delineate a... (more)
Understanding and Supporting Children with ADHD: Strategies for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals
Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can be hard to include in a mainstream classroom, and managing their behaviour is often a challenge. Drawing directly from real classroom... (more)
The Family and Individual Development
The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. In these... (more)
The Child's Journey Through Care: Placement Stability, Care Planning, and Achieving Permanency
This book focuses on children's journeys through the care system, from voluntary admission into care, through complicated and often long court proceedings, in pursuit of Care or Freeing Orders.... (more)
Early Childhood: A Guide for Students - Second Edition
Designed for the needs of the foundation degree and early childhood studies student, this easy-to-use text gives comprehensive coverage of all aspects of your early childhood course. Written by... (more)
Engaging Children in Family Therapy: Creative Approaches to Integrating Theory and Research in Clinical Practice
Counseling a child in the context of a family therapy session is a specific skill that has not received the attention that it deserves. This book, intended for both novice and experienced counselors... (more)
Working with Children: Assessment, Intervention and Representation
Written for professionals working with children and young people who require support, assessment or intervention at home or in school, this book explores everything from the legislative background... (more)
The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner's Handbook
This book highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that appeal to practicing clinicians. Rather than a comprehensive handbook of various tests and measures, "The Clinical Assessment... (more)
Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
"Prologue to Violence" reveals what happens to those who survive horrific childhoods, only to commit terrifying crimes of their own. Interning on a hospital prison ward, Abby Stein listened to... (more)
Working with Anger and Young People
From attachment anxieties and feelings of powerlessness, to frustration at difficult family relations, this book considers the common reasons for young people's anger during this difficult stage of... (more)
Handbook of Gestalt Play Therapy: Practical Guidelines for Child Therapists
This book is an introduction to gestalt play therapy, a technique which combines the principles of gestalt theory with play techniques, so that children are able to use play to address their needs... (more)
Attention, Genes and ADHD
The first book to bring together both behavioural genetic and molecular genetic advances in the study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and related conditions. An international set of... (more)
Working with Gangs and Young People: A Toolkit for Resolving Group Conflict
Concern about gang culture is on the increase, but remains surrounded by myths. While gangs may lead young people into dangerous situations and breed community division, distrust and fear, the... (more)
Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice
Residential Child Care: Collaborative Practice is an innovative book which addresses the specific context of modern residential child care whilst promoting collaborative practice within a wider... (more)
Talking to My Mum: A Picture Workbook for Workers, Mothers and Children Affected by Domestic Abuse
Talking To My Mum is an activity pack for 5-8-year-olds whose families have experienced domestic abuse to help and encourage them to open up to their mothers about their distressing experiences.... (more)
Talking About Domestic Abuse: A Photo Activity Workbook to Develop Communication Between Mothers and Young People
Talking About Domestic Abuse is an activity pack for children of 9 years and above and adolescents where families have experienced domestic abuse, to help and encourage them to open up to their... (more)
An Introduction to Dyslexia for Parents and Professionals
This practical guide provides basic need-to-know information for parents and professionals and answers frequently asked questions about dyslexia. Using illustrative case studies, Alan M. Hultquist... (more)
Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe
This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teenagers avoid such common risk... (more)
Supporting Children with Speech and Language Impairment and Associated Difficulties: Second Edition
Children with SLI are a challenging yet stimulating group to work with. To be successful in teaching them you need enthusiasm, patience, flexibility and a large bank of ideas. This book offers... (more)
The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children
A major collection of writings from an internationally acclaimed researcher. Ed Tronick, who has been teaching at Harvard for twenty years, has authored some of the key studies in infant and child... (more)
Sex, Therapy and Kids: Addressing Their Concerns Through Talk and Play
A responsible, realistic, and sex-positive to sexuality in youth. In "Sex, Therapy, and Kids", Sharon Lamb demonstrates how to be sex-positive in a way thats responsive to the developmental stage of... (more)
Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention: A Book for Kids About ADHD: Third Edition
In this new third edition of 'Slow Down and Pay Attention', the authors have made a number of changes to reflect changes in understanding of ADHD and in our approach to its treatment. For example, in... (more)
Critical Voices in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
There is a crisis of credibility within child and adolescent psychiatry. Child and adolescent mental health theory and practice have come to be dominated by a narrow biomedical frame. Rising numbers... (more)
Children in Family Contexts: Perspectives on Treatment
Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this widely used text and professional resource provides a practical guide to family-based therapy for childhood emotional and behavioral problems.... (more)
