Child and Adolescent Studies Books
From Fetus to Child: An Observational and Psychoanalytic Study
The advent of ultrasound scanning has made it possible to observe the fetus undisturbed in its natural surroundings. In this book the author describes in moving detail her observations of the... (more)
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.
The Motherhood Constellation: A Unified View of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
The author addresses the field of infant mental health. He draws on his experience - in both the lab and the clinic - to present an integrated model of treatment for both infants and their... (more)
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About Children and Children-no-Longer is the long awaited collection of Paula Heimann's published and unpublished papers.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)
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)
Freeing Children and Young Adults from Shame, Scales, and Stigma: A Practical Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians
This practical guide empowers parents, educators, and clinicians with the tools they require to free children and young adults from body shame and weight stigma.
Dr. Hartman delivers exactly... (more)
Improving Father–Daughter Relationships: A Guide for Women and Their Dads
This engaging, no-nonsense book by father–daughter relationships expert, Dr. Linda Nielsen, offers a step-by-step guide for fathers and daughters to build a more comfortable and meaningful... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach, Second Edition
Mentalization—the ability to make sense of one’s own mind and the minds of others—is fundamental to developing emotional resilience, self-regulation, and successful relationships. Now in its second... (more)
Working with Parents in Therapy: A Mentalization-Based Approach
Parenting is a developmental process that fluctuates and transforms throughout the lifespan. To support working with parents, the authors present a mentalizing approach that considers the current... (more)
Building Creative Therapeutic Relationships with Children and Young People: The Playfully Serious Practitioner
This textbook elucidates core systemic ideas, methods and skills which are useful and effective in building creative therapeutic relationships with children and young people in family/systemic... (more)
A Guide to Relationship-Oriented Child Therapy: The Art of Listening for Connection
This book introduces a new relationship-oriented approach to child therapy grounded in the idea that positive relationships are essential for children’s mental health and wellbeing. The author... (more)
Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma: A Three-Track Psychodynamic Approach
Therapeutic Work for Children with Complex Trauma offers a contemporary three-track psychodynamic treatment model to mental health professionals working with traumatised children and their... (more)
'You’re Not My F*Cking Mother' and Other Things Gen Z Say in Therapy
Modern life is tough on young people, and perhaps toughest on the generation whose adolescence and early adulthood has been indelibly marked by Brexit, the Covid-19 lockdowns, war in Europe, economic... (more)
Stop F*cking Nodding: And Other Things 16-Year-Olds Say in Therapy
This book is for anyone who knows, loves, is baffled by, or wants to help someone who is, has been, or is going to be 16.
Sixteen is where anything can happen and often does; the eye of the... (more)
Improving Mental Health Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People: Promoting Self-agency, Curiosity and Collaboration
This unique, collaborative book, featuring contributions from autistic and non-autistic experts, presents cutting-edge thinking on mental health and service transformation in relation to autistic... (more)
Child Psychotherapy and the Games Children Play: A Psychoanalytic Toolkit for Middle Childhood
In this thought-provoking book, Celine Maroudas presents an intriguing developmental reappraisal of middle childhood, re-examining psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy with this age group and... (more)
The Handbook of Neuro-Dramatic-Play: Cross-Cultural, Attachment-Based Play for Clinicians and Practitioners
An innovative contribution to our understanding of research and practice behind Neuro-Dramatic-Play (NDP), this book demonstrates how readers may apply this attachment and play-based approach to... (more)
1001 Days: How Our First Years Shape Our Lifelong Health
We think of babyhood and old age as polar opposites on the spectrum of life. Yet they are profoundly linked. Our early experiences set us up for a lifetime of good mental and physical health, or for... (more)
Philosophy Meets the Infant: How New Research Transforms the Understanding of Human Existence
Infancy research and philosophy explore “first things,” yet few books bring the two fields into contact. Stephen Langfur’s Philosophy Meets the Infant integrates groundbreaking infancy studies of the... (more)
Counseling Children and Adolescents: Working in School and Clinical Mental Health Settings
Expansive and practical, Counseling Children and Adolescents offers graduate students the information they need to prepare for work in both school and clinical mental health settings (two CACREP... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children: Clinical and Community Work with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Child Mental Health
Psychoanalysis and Severe Disorders in Young Children presents case material and resources for professionals working with young children in the clinic and in the community.
Presented in two main... (more)