Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents: A Clinician’s Guide
Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents (IPT-A) is a comprehensive guide for clinicians. It will enable the reader to add IPT-A to their clinical repertoire or to deepen their existing practice... (more)
Baby Observation: Emotional Relationships during the First Year of Life
A vivid description of a baby’s first year of life. Original edition published in 1990 by Clunie Press and this new edition published in 2021 with a foreword by Jeanne Magagna.
‘Manuel... (more)
Supporting Children and Young People Who Experience Loss: An Illustrated Storybook and Guide
This beautifully illustrated storybook and accompanying guide has been designed to be used by adults supporting children through loss.
The attractive and engaging story describes a young girl... (more)
The Girl Who Lost the Light in Her Eyes: A Storybook to Support Children and Young People Who Experience Loss
This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook has been created to be used therapeutically with children experiencing loss. Telling the story of a young girl who searches high and low... (more)
Using the Expressive Arts with Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Loss: A Pocket Guide
This guidebook has been created to be used alongside the storybook, The Girl Who Lost the Light in Her Eyes. Using a relational approach, it explores the themes of the story and offers guidance to... (more)
Working with Vulnerable Children, Young People and Families: Second Edition
This fully revised and expanded edition considers the meaning of 'vulnerability' - a key concept in early intervention - and the relationship between vulnerability and the individual, communities and... (more)
Building Children’s Resilience in the Face of Parental Mental Illness: Conversations with Children, Parents and Professionals
Mental illness in a parent presents children with multiple challenges, including stigma, self-doubt and self-blame, ongoing anxiety and depression, that are rarely discussed in the public domain.... (more)
Hypnotherapy Scripts to Promote Children's Wellbeing
Hypnotherapy Scripts to Promote Children's Wellbeing is a collection of tried-and-tested scripts that will aid hypnotherapists in developing and implementing treatment plans for promoting the... (more)
The Island and Storybook Manual: For Children With A Parent Living With Depression
This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children whose parents are going through a separation. With... (more)
The Storm and Storybook Manual: For Children Growing Through Parents' Separation
This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with a parent who is suffering from depression. With... (more)
The Night Crossing and Storybook Manual: A Lullaby For Children On Life's Last Journey
This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with an untreatable illness. With gentle and colourful... (more)
Therapeutic Fairy Tales: For Children and Families Going Through Troubling Times
Therapeutic Fairy Tales are a series of short, modern tales, dedicated to supporting young children through challenging situations of life and loss, covering diverse themes such as family breakdown,... (more)
The Night Crossing: A Lullaby For Children On Life's Last Journey
This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with an untreatable illness. With engaging, gentle and... (more)
The Storm: For Children Growing Through Parents' Separation
This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children whose parents are going through a separation. With... (more)
Toward a Theory of Child-Centered Psychodynamic Family Treatment: The Anna Ornstein Reader
Toward a Theory of Child-Centered Psychodynamic Family Treatment: The Anna Ornstein Reader offers a clear introduction to Anna Ornstein's ground-breaking work on psychoanalytic child orientated... (more)
Mentalization in the Family: A Guide for Professionals and Parents
Mentalization in the Family draws upon the latest research on child development, parenting, and mentalization theory to provide a comprehensive guidebook for parents, teachers, social workers, and... (more)
Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs: 20 Skills to Build Resilience
This new edition of Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs provides detailed descriptions of techniques, ample case studies, fascinating and easy to understand explanations of research,... (more)
Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents: Fourth Edition
The leading parent resource about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its treatment has now been revised and updated with the latest information and resources. Prominent authority... (more)
The Island: For Children With A Parent Living With Depression
This beautifully illustrated and sensitive storybook is designed to be used therapeutically by professionals and caregivers supporting children with a parent who is suffering from depression. With... (more)
The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them
15-20% of children are Highly Sensitive - and they are often labelled shy, introverted, fussy or faddy. The real story is very different though and this intelligent, practical book helps parents know... (more)
DSM-5® Diagnosis in the Schools
This key resource helps practitioners optimize their diagnostic practices in PreK-12 settings. Now significantly revised for DSM-5, the book cuts through the overwhelming length and complexity of the... (more)
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are: Third Edition
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is,... (more)
Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems
Sleep problems are among the most common, urgent and undermining troubles parents meet. This book describes Dilys Daws' pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over 40 years of work... (more)
Children in Care in Colombia: Disturbed Family Contexts and Psychic Structure
This book documents research and therapeutic work carried out with children and adolescents living in social care or disturbed family circumstances in Bogota, Colombia. The children, aged from two... (more)
Principle-Guided Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents: The FIRST Program for Behavioral and Emotional Problems
Presenting a fresh approach to child and adolescent therapy, this book identifies five principles at the heart of the most potent evidence-based treatments--and shows how to apply them. Clinicians... (more)
OCD in Children and Adolescents: The "OCD Is Not the Boss of Me" Manual
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this user-friendly manual presents a tested treatment protocol for children and adolescents (ages 6 to 18) struggling with obsessive-compulsive disorder... (more)
Youth Mental Health: A Paradigm for Prevention and Early Intervention
Experts discuss the potential of early intervention to transform outcomes for people with mental disorders.
Mental illness represents one of the largest disease burdens worldwide, yet treatments... (more)
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Mindfulness has grown in popularity exponentially over the past two decades, and many educators, therapists and other youth professionals are asked to teach mindfulness in a variety of public... (more)
The Little Book of Attachment: Theory to Practice in Child Mental Health
This book both explains and illustrates how the practice of child mental health professionals can be enhanced, whatever their treatment approach, to encourage engagement, resilience and development... (more)
Evaluating Educational Interventions: Single-Case Design for Measuring Response to Intervention
This innovative guide is now in a revised and expanded second edition with an even stronger applied focus. It helps educators harness the potential of single-case design (SCD) as a critical element... (more)