Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
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)
Sent Before My Time: A Child Psychotherapist's View of Life on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Sent Before My Time is an exploration of the workings of a neo natal intensive care unit from a child psychotherapist's point of view. It examines the relationships between the babies, the parents... (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)
Gambling and Gaming Addictions 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)
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)
Adolescent development: The essential readings
This work offers a selection of articles by researchers in this growing area of developmental psychology. Topics covered include moral development, sexual development, the family, work, school and... (more)
Depression and Attempted Suicide 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)
Challenges to school exclusion: Exclusion, appeals, the law
This work examines in detail the legal processes involved in challenging permanent school exclusion. The findings reveal serious deficiencies in the appeal system, including a failure to deal fairly... (more)
Children in Secure Accommodation: A Gendered Exploration...
This text explores the circumstances and experiences of children in secure accommodation through an examination of their own stories and through accounts of social workers and staff. Teresa O'Neil... (more)
People Skills for Young Adults
A complete course in social skills training for students aged 16 and up, this text is particularly designed for those with mild learning difficulties. Areas covered include: friends and relatioships,... (more)
Emerging cognitive abilities in early infancy:
The topics for discussion in this work include: the development of perceptual organization; task dependancy in infant behaviour; intial "knowledge" of the workd; and how auditory and articulatory... (more)
Quality of Life in Child and Adolescent Illness: Concepts, Methods and
This work look at how can we measure the quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic disease. (more)
Annual progress in child psychiatry and child development:
This volume comprises 20 articles that illuminate work in the study of the child to present a clear and systematic picture of child psychiatry and development. The articles cover developmental... (more)