Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis
'Coles' book starts from the claim that traditionally psychoanalysis, in stressing the relations of conflict between children and parents, has tended to overlook and displace the co-operative... (more)
The Internal and External Worlds of Children and Adolescents: Collaborative Therapeutic Care
The field of child and adolescent psychotherapy is still relatively young and its short history has resulted in a paucity of mental health services for this neglected group. There is a distinct lack... (more)
Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott
This book presents the life and work of one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator in helping... (more)
Psychic Hooks and Bolts: Psychoanalytic Work with Children Under Five and their Families
'In this book it is made plain that complex and powerful understanding can take place in brief work. The baby's development is carried forward, the family re-groups differently, and understanding... (more)
Violent Adolescents: Understanding the Destructive Impulse
This volume looks at the reasons behind adolescent violence, and illuminates the earlier disturbances in the life history of the adolescent, which contribute to violent behaviour. The contributors... (more)
Children's drawings: (Le dessin enfantin)
This title looks at children's drawings in light of modern psychology, focusing on the two main theories - visual realism and intellectual realism - whilst examining the work of Georges-Henri Luquet... (more)
Infant and Toddler Mental Health: Models of Clinical Intervention
This work deals with the most common and important problems in infant psychopathology (problems with trauma, sleep, feeding, excessive crying, attachment disruptions and so on) and how to evaluate... (more)
Imagining the impossible: Magical, Scientific, and Religious Thinking in Children
This text discusses the development of human thinking that goes beyond the ordinary boundaries of reality. Various research initiatives have emerged in the past decade exploring such matters as... (more)
Child Analysis Today
Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most... (more)
Improving Behaviour and Raising Self-esteem in the Classroom: A Practical Guide to Using Transactional Analysis
This work should help all teachers who face challenging behaviour in their classrooms. It offers support and guidance for dealing with issues of behaviour and makes suggestions for building creative... (more)
Post-natal Depression: Psychology, Science and the Transition to Motherhood
This text challenges the expectation that it is normal to be a "happy mother". It provides a critique of the traditional medical and social science explanations of "post natal depression" by... (more)
The Elusive Child
'Fuelled by agitation and panic about paedophilia, child abuse, violence and neglect on the one side, and by children as violent murderers and killers on the other, there has been an explosion of... (more)
Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering, Adoption and Kinship Care
Creating New Families is intended to reflect the practice of the specialist, multi-disciplinary Fostering and Adoption team in the Child and Family Department of the Tavistock Clinic. The team is... (more)
Imprisoned Fathers and Their Children
More than 125,000 children in the UK alone are seperated from their imprisoned parents, mainly fathers. Using case studies to illustrate their points, the authors examines the effect this seperation... (more)
Childhood Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective
Childhood Psychosis is a well-structured and informative study that explores childhood psychosis and its different manifestations in depth, with special emphasis on the relation between psychosis and... (more)
Surviving Space: Papers on Infant Observation
Surviving Space is a collection of papers on infant observation and related issues by contemporary experts in the field, commemorating the centenary of Esther Bick and the unique contribution she has... (more)
Psychoanalytic Work with Children and Adults: Meltzer in Barcelona
This volume is a collection of seminars and lectures Donald Meltzer gave to the Psychoanalytic Group of Barcelona under Dr Leon Grinberg, and later Dr Benito Lopez, during his visit to Barcelona. The... (more)
Cyberkids: Youth identities and communities in an on-line world
This text draws together research in the sociology of childhood and social studies of technology to explore children's experiences in the information age. The book addresses policy debates about... (more)
Cool places: Geographies of youth culture
Drawing on examples from a number of countries, this text introduces the ideas of culture and space - identity politics, gender, race, class, disability, sexuality, performativity, power, agency -... (more)
Informal education with young people: Principles and practice
This text explores the principles and practice of informal education and focuses, in particular, on the notion of "working with" which is central to practice in this sector. It is aimed at informal... (more)
Young people's views on sex education: Education, attitudes and behaviour
Based on observations of sex education programmes and in-depth interviews with young people, the authors aim to understand more about adolescent's attitudes to sexuality and their sexual behaviour in... (more)
Uncertain masculinities: Youth, ethnicity and class in contemporary Britain
In this era of rapid and unsettling change boys now more than ever face difficulties in establishing their self-image and status. This study explores how teenage boys from white, African-Caribbean... (more)
The School Years: Current Issues in the Socialization of Young People
A challenging and lively collection of essays on key issues affecting young people in the school setting. It is an essential book for all those concerned with adolescence and education. Since the... (more)
Connecting children: Care and family life in later childhood
This text focuses on children's understandings of care and their views of different family lives. It portrays the lives of children aged 11-12 and shows how families connect children in different... (more)
Childhood studies: A reader in perspectives of childhood
This text brings together a variety of perspectives on the study of childhood: how this has been treated historically and how such a concept (more)
Studying minority adolescents: Conceptual, methodological, and theoretical issues
This text presents recent theoretical, conceptual and methodological work on ethnicity and development during adolescence. It is concerned with how researchers interested in adolescence might think... (more)
Sexual teens, sexual media: Investigating media's influence on adolescent sexuality
This collection brings together research from independent scholars and studies supported by the Kaiser Foundation to illustrate innovative research on the media's sexual content and adolescents.... (more)
Educating young adolescent girls:
This study examines existing information and provides specific recommendations for educators and parents concerning ways to construct engaging learning environments for young adolescent girls which... (more)
Just Say Know: Talking With Kids About Drugs and Alcohol
From the authors of Buzzed and Pumped, a no-nonsense guide to what kids should know to make healthy decisions.
All of our children deserve the chance to be as bright, successful, and healthy as... (more)
Avoiding Risky Sex in Adolescence
This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with adolescents and their families with concise and up-to-date information on adolescents' problems.... (more)