Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Can You Help Me? A Guide for Parents
This book is based on common questions that parents have about their children and their relationships with the world at large. Drawing from his extensive experience as a child psychoanalyst (and as a... (more)
Mothers, Babies and their Body Language
This volume explores the complex interaction and the importance of early communication between mother and baby from pregnancy to the first early months of development. It provides a rich and detailed... (more)
From Chaos to Coherence: Psychotherapy with a Little Boy with ADHD
'...I am flooded with warmth for this little expert on the art of living, who has just realised that even he has the possibility to live a long life. My interpretation is that he trusts he will get... (more)
Parental Substance Misuse and Child Welfare
This book brings together theoretical and practice issues for all those involved with welfare responses to addiction and child protection. It presents a practical model for risk assessment and... (more)
What Can the Matter Be?: Therapeutic Interventions with Parents, Infants and Young Children
This volume is the result of over twenty years of therapeutic interventions with families within the Tavistock Clinic's Under Fives Service. It describes in detail the process of understanding young... (more)
The Family and the School: A Joint Systems Approach to Problems with Children: Second Edition
This reissued classic contains material specifically related to work with schools and reflects the major changes in society, in legislation and in the interaction between families and the education... (more)
Experiences of Donor Conception Parents, Offspring and Donors Through the Years
Drawing on the experiences of parents, offspring and donors, this is an exploration of the process of donor conception. The author takes the reader step by step through the process of deciding to use... (more)
Children, technology and culture: The impacts of technologies in children's everyday lives
"Children, Technology and Culture" looks at the interplay of children and technology which poses critical questions for how we understand the nature of childhood in late modern society. (more)
Simultaneous Treatment of Parent and Child (2nd Edition)
Taking the reader through the theory of simultaneous treatment and the psychological processes underlying it she draws on three in-depth case studies of children she has worked with. (more)
Trauma, the Body and Transformation: A Narrative Enquiry
Trauma suffered during childhood can affect not only a person's emotional and mental health, but also their physical health, even into adulthood. This unique book fills a gap in research in this... (more)
Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents
Prevention: What Works with Children and Adolescents deals with the prevention of psychological problems which are of central concern to those who fund and develop health, social and educational... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders in Adolescents: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
The Handbook of Group Play Therapy: How to Do it, How it Works, Whom it's Best for
Here is a comprehensive guide to of the the most effective and dynamic childhood intervention available to counselors, therapists, teachers, psychologists, and anyone who works with kids. This... (more)
Introduction to Play Therapy
A variety of models of working with play are explored, and an evaluation of the meaning of childhood is discussed in clear language, illustrated with clinical examples. This book will help adults who... (more)
The Infant and Family in the 21st Century
This volume addresses the most significant and recent issues of infant and child psychiatry, examining topics from clinical care and research perspectives as well as from the perspectives of policies... (more)
The Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education
This book offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational institutions. It looks at the origins of learning in... (more)
Early Childhood Assessment
This book presents a thorough, step-by-step approach to the comprehensive psychological assessment of young children. It covers the major psychological tests and features specific guidelines and... (more)
Children's Discourse: Person, Space and Time across Languages
Hickmann's findings concern the rhythm of acquisition, the interplay among different factors (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic) determining children's uses, and universal versus variable aspects of... (more)
Children's Solution Work
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) has proven extremely successful with adults. Yet therapists often despair of using SFBT with children. Insoo Kim Berg and Therese Steiner show this despair to be... (more)
101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques: Volume 3
A resource for play therapy techniques. The contributors are from a diverse group including child-centred, gestalt and Jungian play therapists. The techniques are grouped in seven sections:... (more)
Friendship in childhood and adolescence:
This overview of the nature and significance of children's peer relationships examines issues such as social-cognitive development; the context of children's relationships; relationship problems such... (more)
Toddler Troubles: Coping with your Under 5's
Parent and Clinical Psychologist Jo Douglas has been working with families for over 25 years and understands how hard bringing up toddlers can be. In this wonderful new book, she provides a wealth of... (more)
Children's sibling relationships: developmental and clinical issues
In the last decade, the significance of siblings in children's development and adjustment has been widely recognized, and research on brothers and sisters has increased dramatically. Bringing... (more)