Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder: Innovative Parenting and Counseling Techniques for Helping Chi
This work contains innovative parenting and counselling techniques for helping children with bipolar disorder and the conditions that may occur with it. 236 pages. (more)
Special needs in the early years: Snapshots of practice
This text celebrates good practice in the area of early years and special needs by bringing together authors who are either practitioners or researchers, from a range of different and diverse early... (more)
Adolescents after divorce:
This work questions why some children thrive and others falter when their parents are divorced. It follows children from 1100 divorcing families, and from a range of different backgrounds, to... (more)
Making sense of social development:
This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers. It considers the different cultural conceptions of the teacher- learner relationship, and how this relates to... (more)
Young children, parents and professionals: Enhancing the links in early childhood
As early education and child care increase, parents and professionals face many questions. This book proposes three dimensions of care giving behaviour, by which parents and professionals can help... (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)
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)
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)
Expressive Therapy with Troubled Children
Using this method, children incapable of directly expressing their problems or too shy to speak openly, can communicate with therapists through media more natural to them, such as art and play. This... (more)
Twin and Triplet Psychology: A Professional Guide to Working with Multiples
Provides professionals with clear, concise information on the special needs of multiples, from a range of professional contexts. 208 pages. (more)
Time to listen to children: Personal and professional communication
A practical guide to effective communication with children. It examines the skills required to help children articulate their problems, and discusses issues such as training, cultural background and... (more)
Sexually Aggressive Children
Accessible and sensitive, this book provides a comprehensive overview of sexual abuse perpetrated by children 12 years old and younger. Drawing attention to this frequently overlooked population, the... (more)
Unhappy children: Reasons and remedies
When children's emotional needs are not met, they become unhappy. This text reveals their distress - both at home and at school - and its expression through fear, anxiety and often troublesome... (more)
Child Psychotherapy - From Initial Therapeutic Contact to Termination
Designed for both clinicians and informed parents, this work addresses the issues therapists encounter in dealing with children. It covers the initial contact and session, therapeutic setting and... (more)
The Healing Drama
Beginning with the notion of play and its importance for children, the author discusses how children use play as a method of investigation and rehearsal for reality. Therapeutic work is covered in... (more)
Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through Childhood Trauma
Argues that many recovered memories have their source in primitive anxieties, and that it is easy for the therapist and the client to externalise the past onto supposed perpetrators, under the... (more)
Interventions With Bereaved Children
A comprehensive guide to the many differing approaches in tackling the issue of bereavement in children. Music and drama therapy - in formal and informal settings - and the outcomes of the... (more)
Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents: Helping Teens in Therapy Thrive in an Ultra-Competitive, Screen-Saturated World
Therapeutic Conversations with Adolescents takes readers into the office of a seasoned therapist, where they can be a fly on the wall of live therapy sessions. Full of actual dialogue and the... (more)
Citizen Fetus: The Changing Image of Motherhood
This book discusses many aspects of fetuses and motherhood from fields as wide as sociology and medicine. It examines changing perceptions of the fetus over recent decades, comparing western ideas... (more)
Hidden Treasure: A Map to the Child's Inner Self
This classic edition of Violet Oaklander’s groundbreaking book presents her pioneering approach to engaging with children who enter therapy. A new introduction by Peter Mortola reflects on the ways... (more)
Navigating Media’s Influence Through Childhood and Adolescence: A Question and Answer Guide for Professionals
Navigating Media’s Influence Through Childhood and Adolescence moves through research and questions that are relevant to practicing pediatricians and therapists in their everyday practice. As we... (more)
Postnatal PTSD: A Guide for Health Professionals
Postnatal PTSD, often referred to as birth trauma, is an underdiagnosed and misunderstood condition. Often mistaken for postnatal depression and with 4% of women developing the condition after giving... (more)