Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Play as Therapy: Assessment and Therapeutic Interventions
While paediatric healthcare professionals view play as the treatment tool of choice for children under school age, the theory and practice underpinning play-based therapeutic approaches often remain... (more)
Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum: What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-teen and Teenage Years
Growing up isn't easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly confusing for girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). This book covers all the concerns commonly... (more)
Listening to Children: A Practitioner's Guide
"Listening to children" is one of those feel-good phrases that always features in childcare literature as if it were self-evidently a good thing. Often however, there is a lack of critical attention... (more)
Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development
Humans take longer to reach maturity than most other species on earth. We are the Peter Pans of the Animal Kingdom. In this engaging and insightful look at the nature of childhood, developmental... (more)
Patchwork: Children, Trauma and Therapy
A pioneering exploration of the creation of resilience in infants, children and their families living in modern Israel. The chapters cover topics such as children's adaptation to Kibbutz life and... (more)
Understanding Motor Skills in Children with Dyspraxia, ADHD, Autism, and Other Learning Disabilities: A Guide to Improving Coordination
Children with learning disabilities often have coordination problems that make everyday activities such as mealtimes, dressing, playing sports, and learning to write challenging. This accessible... (more)
Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice
Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls. As such, it has long been of concern to feminists, and more recently mental health activists. This book draws on... (more)
Child Abuse and Stress Disorders
This book examines major stressful events along with several stress disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder. It also contains chapters that deal with various types of child abuse and... (more)
Raising Kids in the 21st Century: lth for Children The Science of Psychological Health for Children
An easy-to-read guide on raising emotionally healthy children that is based on sound psychological research. The book's format makes it a good choice for students, parents, or practitioners. Key... (more)
The Amazing Infant
For years parents and professionals marveled at the complexity of infants, but it was not until the 21st century, when explosive advancements in neuroscience began taking place, that sophisticated... (more)
Working to be Someone: Child Focused Research and Practice with Working Children
"Working to be Someone" presents an overview of worldwide research on working children that takes the children's own points of view of their work into account. It aims to highlight and discuss... (more)
Behavior Problems in Preschool Children: Clinical and Developmental Issues
This volume provides a comprehensive clinical-developmental framework for understanding and treating behavior problems in early childhood. Susan B. Campbell offers a highly readable account of the... (more)
Raising Kids with Character: Developing Trust and Personal Intergrity in Children
"Raising Kids with Character" shows parents, clinicians, and policy-makers how the love relationship between parents and children is the workshop of the child's maturing personality, connecting... (more)
Handbook of Adolescent Development
What specifically characterises adolescents? What does it mean to be young at the beginning of the twenty-first century? "Handbook of Adolescent Development" fills a gap in the literature on... (more)
Youth Justice and Child Protection
With ever-increasing new policies on 'anti-social behaviour' and ongoing public concern over the care of children, juvenile crime and law breaking, this new book is a timely examination of recent... (more)
Children's Play
Play is a surprisingly complex and significant phenomenon in the lives of children everywhere. Children's Play looks at the many facets of play and how it develops from infancy through late... (more)
Helping Young People to Beat Stress: A Practical Guide
There is growing concern in most countries today about increasing levels of stress among young people. Suicides, substance abuse, depression, anxiety and eating disorders have all been linked to... (more)
Achieving Best Behavior for Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Parents and Carers
Achieving good behavior and social skills in a child with developmental disabilities can often be very difficult, and methods that improve behaviour in other children are often unsuitable or... (more)
The Transition to Adulthood and Family Relations: An Intergenerational Perspective
The authors present a clear and in-depth analysis of the theoretical framework surrounding the transition into adulthood both from a generational point of view and a relationship-centred perspective.... (more)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Strategy, Planning, Delivery, and Evaluation
This is a guide for Directors and Managers in the NHS and Social care who have responsibility for children and adolescents with emotional or behavioural problems, as well as for clinical... (more)
Constructing Autism: Unravelling the 'Truth' and Understanding the Social
Autism is now considered to be one of the most common developmental disorders today, yet 100 years ago it did not exist. This book examines the historical and social events that enabled autism to be... (more)
Children and Behavioural Problems: Anxiety, Aggression, Depression and ADHD - A Biopsychological Model with Guidelines for Diagnostics and Treatment
In this comprehensive text, Martine F. Delfos provides practical guidance on the diagnosis, support and trreatment of a variety of childhood behavioural problems, including anxiety problems,... (more)
Early Intervention
Early intervention (EI) is an attempt to help children at risk of developing cognitive, emotional, social or behavioural problems because of biological factors, such as low birth weight, or... (more)
School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse: See it - Stop it - Prevent it with Dignity and Respect
Gail Elliott explores why people, particularly children, take part in mobbing situations, and addresses how adults can teach children to have dignity and respect for themselves, which they will then... (more)
Emotional Release for Children
Focusing on past experiences to begin the process of emotional healing, this book provides methods for helping children and adolescents experiencing depression, fear, hidden grief and unpredictable... (more)