Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Our Need for Others and Its Roots in Infancy
In this original and highly readable book Josephine Klein provides a detailed picture of how young infants experience life and how this lays the foundations for later personality structures. (more)
Incest Fantasies and Self-Destructive Acts: Jungian and post-jungian psychotherapy in adolescence
The book revolves around the activation of incest fantasies and incestuous acting out in adolescence, interpreting this phenomenon as a potentially creative and healing regression.
Psychoanalysis and Infant Research
This collection of findings, about the first two years of life, examines the implications for contemporary psychoanalysis. It explores this in terms of the unfolding sense of self, then... (more)
Rapprochement: The Critical Subphase of Sepearation-Individuation
Presents and clarifies the meaning of the rapprochement subphase in child development. (more)
About Children and Children No Longer: Collected Papers 1942-1980
About Children and Children-no-Longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers. From the published work it includes the seminal paper 'On... (more)
Mother-Infant Bonding: A Scientific Fiction
Recent studies have argued against the existance of any mother-infant bonding, yet many pediatricians and others still blame a lack of this for many social and physical problems. This book traces the... (more)
Vision and Separation: Between Mother and Baby
Using not only the ideas of Winnicott and Bowlby, but also drawing on the phenomenological tradition of Cassirer and Susanne Langer, this book examines childhood experience and the nature of therapy.... (more)
Integrative Systemic Therapy for Families with Children and Adolescents: A Clinician's Handbook
This book provides an in-depth introduction to the theory and application of Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST) when working with children and their families, allowing clinicians to enhance their... (more)
Launching into Young Adulthood: Evidence-Based Tools and Psychological Skills to Help Teens Succeed
The transition from adolescence to adulthood can be challenging. This easy-to-read guide on “how to succeed” as a young adult provides hands-on tools for building emotional awareness and... (more)
Challenging Attachment Theory: Ethnocentrism, Science, and Child Development
Drawing on decades of cross-cultural research, Heidi Keller reveals how attachment theory is rooted in WEIRD societies representing less than 10% of humanity, despite claims to universality. Through... (more)
Therapeutically Engaging Young Survivors of Violence, Exploitation, Abuse, and Neglect: A Critical Social Work Approach
Therapeutically Engaging Young Survivors of Violence, Exploitation, Abuse, and Neglect: A Critical Social Work Approach highlights that the current trauma model in social work, psychology, and... (more)
Gender Affirming Psychotherapy: Core Practices to Help Young People Thrive
Packed with practical tools, this book equips therapists and counselors to offer life-saving, affirming care to transgender and gender-expansive youth in today's constantly changing sociopolitical... (more)
DBT Skills for Adolescents Workbook, Second Edition: Handouts for Teens, Caregivers, and Families
In a convenient large-size format, DBT Skills for Adolescents Workbook, Second Edition, provides more than 100 reproducible DBT skills training handouts for teens and caregivers. All of the materials... (more)
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Childhood Maltreatment: Foundational Theory, Treatment, and Prevention of Complex PTSD and Moral Injury
Presenting case studies from across the lifespan, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the causes and complications of complex trauma, as well as a framework for trauma-informed care.... (more)
Evaluating and Treating Families: A Guide to the Problem-Centered Systems Therapy of the Family
The second edition of Evaluating and Treating Families illustrates the McMaster model and Problem-Centered Systems Therapy of the Family (PCSTF) model, and reveals how clinicians can use these... (more)
The Journey of the Alienated Child: Healing the Hidden Trauma of Divorce and Separation
When a child rejects a parent after family separation, the experience can feel sudden, bewildering and absolute. This book offers a compassionate yet clinically grounded guide to understanding what... (more)
Time to (Re-)integrate Dissociation into Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy?
This book brings together contributions from leading authors in the field of dissociation to facilitate the pursuit of integrative clinical scholarship, connecting psychoanalytic thinking and... (more)
Supporting Autistic Individuals During Crises: A Practical Guide for Mental Health Practitioners
Supporting Autistic Individuals During Crises presents a first-person exploration of living with autism while experiencing a mental health crisis, offering mental health professionals, individuals... (more)
Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction
Interpretation: A Contemporary Introduction invites readers into the evolving heart of psychoanalytic practice, where interpretation stands as both central mystery and transformative... (more)
Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Contemporary Introduction
his book offers a vital psychoanalytic overview of antisocial personality disorder, a condition that causes great distress to its sufferers, their families, and society.
Following a historical... (more)
Key Topics in Identity Development
Who am I, and where am I going in life? This book explores the fascinating study of identity development, addressing how people navigate these fundamental questions throughout their lives. In an... (more)
Observation and the Psychoanalytic Imagination: Papers from Child Psychotherapy, 1991-2025
This book brings together some of Margaret Rustin’s finest papers in the areas of infant observation, theory, research and literature. Drawing on more than 50 years of psychoanalytic practice, the... (more)
Fostering Potential in Children with Special Needs: An Abilities-Oriented Perspective on Early Childhood Motor Development
An innovative contribution to therapeutic practice, Fostering Potential in Children with Special Needs provides a comprehensive introduction to the Jeremy Krauss Approach JKA. Building on the... (more)
The Psychodynamics and Psychogenesis of Parentification
Why do some of us grow up too soon and spend a lifetime caring for others at the cost of ourselves? In this deeply humane study, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mark Kinet explores parentification:... (more)
Helping Children: Principles of Good Practice in Child Mental Health
Children and young people’s mental health is now recognised as one of society’s most pressing challenges. Rates of distress and disorder have risen sharply while services struggle to keep pace. Long... (more)
Resilient Caregiving for Neurodivergent Children: Practical Strategies for Managing Stress and Finding Joy
Resilient Caregiving for Neurodivergent Children is a supportive, neuroaffirming, and practical guide that helps caregivers protect their own well-being while managing the emotional and day-to-day... (more)
Child and Adolescent Counselling with Expressive Therapies: Creative Arts Activities to Inspire Wellbeing
This practical guide to Expressive Therapies tools – a multi-modal, emotion-focused application of creative arts therapies – explains how expressive, creative and collaborative counselling methods... (more)
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children: Second Edition
Internal Family Systems Therapy with Children, Second Edition, offers a new way of understanding and supporting children – building deep, respectful relationships with their inner worlds through the... (more)
Play Therapy and Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Clinical Guide to Practice
Play Therapy and Childhood Sexual Abuse is a comprehensive guide for mental health clinicians and play therapists who work with the victims of childhood sexual abuse. Chapters cover seminal and... (more)