Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Borderline Psychotic Child: A Selective Integration
This book reviews the history and evolution of the borderline diagnosis for children, both in the UK and USA, and brings the reader up to date with current clinical opinion on the subject. 218 pages. (more)
Children and interparental violence: the impact of exposure
This text, rich with impeccable research, current theories, and treatment strategies, pays specific and unique attention to the families' ethnic backgrounds, parents' sexual orientations and forensic... (more)
The Dynamics of Adoption
This text documents experiences representative of all those involved in the adoption process - adoptee, adoptive and birth parent and the professionals. It reflects on the feelings detailed in the... (more)
Resolving childhood trauma: A long-term study of abuse survivors
An engaging and compassionate book which provides a hopeful and helpful perspective for trauma survivors. The author's extensive and innovative research with child abuse survivors also provides... (more)
Letters to Children in Family Therapy: A narrative approach
Marner explains the theory behind writing to children in family therapy. He shows how using stories makes the problems of children more manageable for them. 109 pages. (more)
Early Experience and the Life Path
This text concludes on the basis of empirical evidence that theories which ascribe overriding importance to the early years are erroneous. The authors examine the wide-ranging theoretical and... (more)
Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss and Breakdown
A collection of lectures by eminent members of the British Psycho-analytical Society. Includes papers on the experience of having a baby, pregnancy and the internal world, pregnancy after stillbirth... (more)
Children, feelings and divorce: Finding the best outcome
A distillation of the author's 25 years experience of working with children whose parents have divorced. A positive approach suggests interventions based on knowledge and understanding can greatly... (more)
Good Grief: Vol.1: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Under 11's
Catering for a variety of religious and cultural backgrounds with a practical and creative approach, this guide offers a source of information as to dealing with loss and grief within the structure... (more)
Building Solutions in Child Protective Services
The authors of this book present readers with the challenge to rethink the way we work with families to keep children safe. They have intergrated family-based practice into the protective arena while... (more)
Postpartum Depression and Child Development
This text is concerned with the impact of parental psychiatric disorder on parenting and child development. These depressions can have a profoundly negative effect on the quality of the mother-infant... (more)
Emotional and behavioural difficulties: Theory to practice
A concise guide to the major approaches to dealing with emotional and behavioural difficulties - counselling, behavioural approaches, family therapy and class management based on analysis of social... (more)
Anna Freud: The Dream of Psychoanalysis
Robert Cole's penetrating intellectual portrait gives us an entirely new view of Anna Freud. Far from the stereotype of the distant analyst, she was the warm guide, the ego ideal, the "good parent"... (more)
Helping Children to Manage Loss: Positive Strategies for Renewal and Growth
This text explores the territory of loss in childhood using the words of children who have found themselves bereft of hope. The book touches on subjects such as: helping a child prepare for loss and... (more)
Practice issues in sexuality and learning disabilities:
This aims to be a practical guide for all those who work in services for people with learning disabilities. It is an exploration of the sexual behaviour of people with learning disabilities, and... (more)
Treating sexually abused boys: A practical guide for therapists and counselors
This practical, hands-on guide will be a valuable resource offering clinical guidelines for addressing the unique needs of boys who have suffered sexual abuse. It contains a wealth of exercises and... (more)
Children of Social Trauma: Hungarian Psychoanalytic Case Studies
Observing the ways in which a large group of people may experience collective trauma, which can have identifiable effects in succeeding generations, the author has pioneered individual and group... (more)
Childhood Experiences of Domestic Violence
A discussion of first-hand accounts from children and young people regarding their experiences of both domestic violence and the support services. Based on a three-year research project, it seeks to... (more)
Child Welfare Policy and Practice: Issues and Lessons Emerging from Current Research
This book explores the implications of recent research for all those concerned with child welfare & social work. The contributors discuss the social matters that are prevelant within the Uk, as well... (more)
Signs of safety: A solution and safety oriented approach to child protection casework
Focusing on how child protection professionals can build partnerships with parents where there is suspected or substantiated child abuse or neglect, this book brings the solution-oriented model to... (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)
Evolutionary principles of human adolescence:
Presenting a research-based treatment of adolescent development from a functional, evolutionary point of view, this work also offers a comparative perspective, describing adolescence in other... (more)
Psychotherapy for children & adolescents: Directions for research and practice
What do we wish to know about psychotherapy and its effects? What do we already know? And what needs to be accomplished to fill the gap? These questions and others are explored in this updated book... (more)
Raising their voices: The politics of girls' anger
Based on Lyn Brown's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle-school girls, this text allows the reader to hear how the girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously... (more)
Treating the disruptive adolescent: finding the real child behind oppositional defiant disorders:
This text offers clinicians an effective method of dealing with oppositional, resistant and disruptive older children and teenagers. It introduces a comprehensive programme that clinicians can use to... (more)
The Therapist's Encounters with Revenge and Forgiveness
Examining the "exploited-repressive" and "vindictive" reactions to a patient's actual or perceived abuse, this study looks at the concepts of vengeance, revenge fantasy and the granting or... (more)
The Psychoanalytic Study of Lives Over Time: Clinical and Research Perpectives on Children Who Return to Treatment in Adulthood
A group of international analytic clinicians and researchers all comment on three child analytic situations where the patient has returned to treatment in adulthood. They compare findings from the... (more)
Handbook of counseling boys and adolescent males: A practioner's guide
The contributing authors address a wide variety of developmental and cultural considerations pertaining to the counselling of boys. They also identify and offer extremely useful recommendations for... (more)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A Developmental Approach: Fourth Revised Edition
This is one of the standard international textbooks on child and adolescent mental health. Its strengths lie in its up-to-date, evidence-based approach to practical clinical issues and its... (more)
Sharing care: The integration of family approaches with child treatment
Caring for the child involves caring for other family members as well. This book describes how the therapist must balance the needs and feelings of parents, children, and families as a whole, during... (more)