Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Climate Change and Youth: Turning Grief and Anxiety into Activism
Climate Change and Youth is a pioneering book that opens the door to understanding the profound impact climate change has on the mental health of today's young people. Chapters provide... (more)
Assessment of Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
This leading course text and practitioner reference has been extensively revised with 90% new content, covering a broader range of child and adolescent problems in more concise chapters. Prominent... (more)
Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents: Assessment to Intervention
Widely recognized as an authoritative resource, this book has been revised and updated with the latest research and techniques, including new material on telehealth services. Guidelines are provided... (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)
The Strange and Curious Guide to Trauma
'Our book about trauma features buzzy bees stuck in your tummy, yes, and also science and superheroes, carrots and lambs, lollies and, unfortunately for me, baboons...'
Join Ordinary Jo, some... (more)
Polyvagal Theory and the Developing Child: Systems of Care for Strengthening Kids, Families, and Communities
How sustained disruptions to children’s safety have physical, behavioural and mental health impact that follow them into adulthood.
At its heart, polyvagal theory describes how the brain’s... (more)
Teaching Self-Compassion to Teens
Grounded in knowledge about the unique developmental challenges of adolescence, this book presents an innovative approach for teaching self-compassion to teens and young adults in clinical,... (more)
Parents as Friendship Coaches for Children with ADHD: A Clinical Guide
This book introduces Parental Friendship Coaching (PFC), an intervention that parents can use to support peer relationships in their elementary school-aged children with ADHD.
In the PFC... (more)
The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back: A Story for Children Who Have Lost Someone They Love
Eric is a sand dragon who loves the sea very much. Each day, he watches it go out, knowing that it will return. But one day, Eric waits and waits, but it does not come back. He falls on the sand,... (more)
Helping Children with Loss: A Guidebook
Now in a fully updated second edition, this professional guidebook has been created to help adults provide emotional support for children who have experienced the loss of somebody they know, or... (more)
Helping Children with Loss and The Day the Sea Went Out and Never Came Back
Now in its second edition, this practical guidebook and beautifully illustrated storybook have been created to help teachers and professionals support children aged 4-12 who have experienced loss. ... (more)
Therapeutic Assessment with Children: Enhancing Parental Empathy Through Psychological Assessment
Therapeutic Assessment with Children presents a ground-breaking paradigm of psychological assessment in which children and families collaborate with the psychologist assessor to understand persistent... (more)
Understanding Infants Psychoanalytically: A Post-Jungian Perspective on Michael Fordham's Model of Development
Focussing on infants and the relationship between child and parent, this book presents a discourse on eminent Jungian child analyst Michael Fordham's model of development that extended Jung's theory... (more)
Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Working with Children, Teens, and Families
Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies offers a wide range of healing modalities and case studies that can be used in both indoor and outdoor environments.
Each chapter includes... (more)
The Essential Guide to Forest School and Nature Pedagogy
This book is a complete guide to Forest School provision and Nature Pedagogy and it examines the models, methods, worldviews and values that underpin teaching in nature. Cree and Robb show how a... (more)
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape
From Jay Griffiths, the author of the award-winning Wild comes a passionate polemic defence of childhood
'Her work isn't just good -- it's necessary' Philip Pullman
In Kith, Jay Griffiths... (more)
Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect: Component-Based Psychotherapy
Grounded in 40 years of clinical practice and research, this book provides a systematic yet flexible evidence-informed framework for treating adult survivors of complex trauma, particularly those... (more)
From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination
This fully updated new edition of From Birth to Five Years: Practical Developmental Examination is a step-by-step 'how to' guide to the developmental examination of pre-school children. Based on... (more)
The Development of the High Ability Child: Psychological Perspectives on Giftedness
This valuable text will help readers to understand the physical, social, and cognitive development of high ability children. Written by experts in the fields of education and psychology, each chapter... (more)
Mary Sheridan's From Birth to Five Years: Children's Developmental Progress
This new edition of a classic text is the go-to reference for anyone concerned with the developmental progress of pre-school children. It provides the knowledge required for understanding children's... (more)
Becoming a Digital Parent: A Practical Guide to Help Families Navigate Technology
Becoming a Digital Parent is a practical, readable guide that will help all parents have confidence to successfully navigate technology with their children. It accessibly presents evidence-based... (more)
Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents and Young Adults
The significantly revised second edition of this unique practitioner guide features 65% new material and a new organizing structure. The authors show how to use motivational interviewing (MI) to have... (more)
Our House: Making Sense of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Our House tells the story of a child who has experienced something that children should never have to experience. It introduces the reader to the people who arrived to help them cope with the bad... (more)
Understanding Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Picture Book and Guidebook Set
This beautifully illustrated picture book and guidebook set offers a broad introduction to childhood trauma and its legacies, with a focus on dissociation and DID. Written with clinical accuracy,... (more)
Growing Up Resilient: The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers (MISC)
It is universally accepted that sensitive and responsive caregiving leads to positive cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes for children. While several intervention approaches exist, this text... (more)
A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People: Ways to Release the Imprisoned Self
This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering.
The book... (more)
What Young People Want from Mental Health Services: A Youth Informed Approach for the Digital Age
Young people experience one of the highest rates of mental health problems of any group, but make the least use of the support available to them. To reach young people in distress, we need to... (more)
Assessment and Diagnosis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Young Children: A Practical Guide
This essential guide is a research-based practical handbook for assessing global developmental delay and other neurodevelopmental disorders in young children. It explains diagnostic, support, and... (more)
Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories: Interventions for Therapists, Children, and Their Caregivers
Using Trauma-Focused Therapy Stories is a groundbreaking treatment resource for trauma-informed therapists who work with abused and neglected children ages nine years and older as well as their... (more)
Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Primary Schools: Tavistock Approaches
This book investigates the experiences of severely troubled children and their families, teachers, and child psychoanalytic psychotherapists working together in primary schools.
The book begins... (more)