Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies
Drawing upon extensive interviews and assessments of school-age children who have lost a parent to death, this book offers a richly textured portrait of the mourning process in children. (more)
Working with Children, Adolescents, and their Families: A Psychosocial Approach (3rd Edition)
Targeting working with children and their families in the context of their daily lives, this edition has been expanded and revised to address cross- cultural issues in greater depth, family mentoring... (more)
Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents (HB)
See catalogue no. 27900 for paperback edition. This book presents a research-based framework for understanding and treating children and adolescents with personality disorders. While these youngsters... (more)
Counselling Young People: A Practitioner Manual
This groundbreaking book takes a humanistic approach to counselling young people, establishing humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention. Chapters cover:
* Therapeutic... (more)
Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories
This edited collection opens up new avenues for exploring children's development as contextual, provisional and locally produced, rather than a unitary, universal and consistent process. Drawing on... (more)
Understanding Child Development: Second Edition
Understanding Child Development follows a thematic approach and outlines the main areas of developmental psychology in childhood at introductory level. It draws together strands of knowledge from... (more)
Modular CBT for Children and Adolescents with Depression: A Clinician's Guide to Individualized Treatment
Modular CBT for Depressed Children and Adolescents offers a user-friendly, step-by-step transdiagnostic approach to help you treat youths whose depression presents in diverse ways. This manual offers... (more)
Child Guidance in Britain, 1918-1955: The Dangerous Age of Childhood
Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. This is the first study of child guidance... (more)
Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of the Sexualization of Girls
The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to... (more)
Adolescent Rationality and Development: Cognition, Morality, and Identity
Frequently cited in scholarly books and journals and praised by students, this book focuses on developmental changes and processes in adolescence rather than on the details and problems of daily... (more)
Seminars in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Second Revised Edition)
This core textbook for trainees in child and adolescent psychiatry has been extensively updated and extended, with a number of new chapters covering the major disorders and the range of service... (more)
Child Neglect: Planning and Intervention
Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment in developed countries and it comes in many forms. This is the first book to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the tasks of planning and... (more)
The Development of Emotional Intelligence: A Case Study
'Here is a beautifully written book about young children's emotional development, which is informative, interesting and intelligent, and at the same time, profoundly moving. Nadja Reissland's... (more)
A Clinician's Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This authoritative clinical handbook provides a detailed overview of the main disorders encountered by child and adolescent psychiatrists in clinical practice, ranging from eating, sleep and... (more)
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice with Women, Infants, and Families
Fundamentals of Perinatal Social Work: A Guide for Clinical Practice provides perinatal social work students and beginning practitioners with an overview of the basics of perinatal social work theory... (more)
Parent Management Training: Treatment for Oppositional, Aggresive, and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents
Among evidence-based therapies for children and adolescents with oppositional, aggressive, and antisocial behavior, parent management training (PMT) is without peer; no other treatment for children... (more)
The Child's Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatised Children
Helping traumatized children develop the story of their life and the lives of people closest to them is key to their understanding and acceptance of who they are and their past experiences. The... (more)
A Solution Focused Approach to Anger Management with Children: A Group Work Manual for Practitioners
Based on solution-focused brief therapy, this manual presents a range of exercises which can be photocopied for use with groups or individuals. The exercises help children to explore their own... (more)