Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Separating, Losing and Excluding Children: Narratives of Difference
The government is committed to reducing the number of children who are forced out of mainstream schooling. The author of this book addresses the key issues and relates them to the main... (more)
Pictures of a Childhood
A study of child abuse. Through her paintings, Alice Miller confronts the truth and pain of her own childhood. She meditates on her spontaneously executed watercolours, and offers an analysis of the... (more)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Early Childhood Edition: Grades K-2
Intended for use with elementary-school-aged children who have experienced the death of someone special, this work is for professionals who work in schools, hospitals, hospices, mental health... (more)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Pre-school Edition: Denny the Duck stories
The grief support group curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing the death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
Grief Support Group Curriculum: Facilitator's Handbook
The Grief Support Group Curriculum provides a basis for assisting children and teenagers as they learn about mourning through facing death of a close friend. The aim of this curriculum is to... (more)
Using Storytelling as a Therapeutic Tool with Children
Designed to be used in conjunction with the books in the "Storybooks for Troubled Children" series, this guide explains how storytelling therapy works, the resources needed to undertake such therapy... (more)
How to Influence Children: A Handbook of Practical Child Guidance Skills: Second Edition
This handbook aims to help those working with children to foster healthy growth and development. Specific topics discussed include: understanding why children misbehave, when to ignore a child's... (more)
Child Adoption: A Guidebook for Adoptive Parents and Their Advisors
This guide, aimed at both adoptive parents and professionals, covers both the practical and emotional issues, and practical problems, which affect child and parents in adoption, such as preparation... (more)
Enabling Communication in Children with Autism
The early stages of linguistic and social interaction are crucial in the development of every child, but particularly in children with autism. This work shows how a range of social and environmental... (more)
Encouraging Children to Learn
This work argues that the use of encouragement helps children, previously disengaged from learning, to believe in themselves and contribute to society. It provides parents, teachers and mental health... (more)
Surviving child sexual abuse: A handbook for helping women challenge their past
This is the second edition of a handbook for survivors of child sexual abuse and their helpers, featuring added material on the acknowledgement of survivors' strengths, the effect of sexual abuse on... (more)
Security of attachment and the social development of cognition:
Investigates how children's security of attachment in infancy is related to various aspects of their cognitive development over the preschool years. The book links the domains of social and cognitive... (more)
Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context
A study of the mental development of children, which examines children's learning as an apprenticeship, a social activity mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's... (more)
Positive Parenting
Based on the belief that only when a child is convinced that its parents are on its side can it develop true self-esteem and develop into a self-confident, self-reliant and happy person, this book... (more)
Interviewing children: A guide for child care and forensic practitioners
This text offers practitioners an understanding of children's language abilities at different development stages, and gives clear guidelines on strategies that professionals might adopt to facilitate... (more)
Creating Ceremonies: Innovative Ways to Meet Adoption Challenges
Designed to help families with adopted children to create the rites and traditions inherent in families with a natural shared history. 141 pages. (more)
Special Care Babies and Their Developing Relationships
Examines the experiences of the premature baby in the hospital, and how the way professionals and parents interact with it and between themselves affects its future development. (more)
Social work with black children and their families:
Part of a series, this is a guide to developments in welfare services for black families in the early 1980s. It describes practical ways of meeting the black population's needs and the implications... (more)
Children in families: Research and policy
This work argues that children's needs have often been neglected in the social sciences, especially in the areas of law, social policy and sociology. It presents empirical research on children in... (more)
Adolescent psychiatry: Vol.23
A collection of essays on the concept of "prolonged adolescence," developmental roots of adolescent disturbances, role of family interactions in adolescent depression establishment of a therapeutic... (more)
Adolescent psychiatry: Vol.21
520 pages.
Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents
This text explores the possibilities of using art therapeutically with adolescents. It reviews theories on the subject and emphasizes the importance of relying on the patients' own words, their... (more)
Good Practice in Child Protection: A Manual for Professionals
A practical handbook for use by all professionals who work with child abuse cases, and who are getting to grips with the new legislation on child protection. Topics include: recognizing abuse;... (more)
Through the Eyes of Aliens: A Book about Autistic People
The author, herself autistic, perceives the keenly-felt sensory world of the autistic person as a gift. She argues that 'normalizing' autistic people is not just ineffective, but wrong. This book... (more)
Techniques and issues in abuse-focused therapy with Children and Adolescents
The author describes the 'internalization model', which she uses as a framework to assist in understanding the effects of sexual abuse on children and adolescents who are reluctant to talk about... (more)
Depression in Children and Adolescents
Awareness of the need to take the problem of childhood depression more seriously has highlighted the lack of practical material for those working in this area. This text offers a resource for the... (more)