Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Reforming Child Protection
Child protection is one of the high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where childrens lives and family life are seen to be at stake. This book argues that there is a... (more)
Ruby and the Rubbish Bin
Ruby hates herself so much that she often feels more like a piece of rubbish than a little girl. Children at school bully her. Sometimes Ruby feels so miserable that she wants to sleep and sleep and... (more)
How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood
An exploration of what evolutionary psychology is teaching us of the development and learning of children, in the tradition of Matt Ridleys The Red Queen and Steven Pinkers The Language Instinct.... (more)
Effective and Emerging Treatments in Pediatric Psychology
Provides practicing clinicians with the information on treatments found to be effective in pediatric psychology. This work includes details on many treatment techniques for different pediatric... (more)
Children of Divorce: Stories of Loss and Growth
"Children of Divorce" features excerpts of stories collected from hundreds of young people. The narratives embrace such themes as despair, chaos in the family, and "missing" dads. The volume paints a... (more)
The Friendship Factor: Helping Our Children Navigate Their Social World--And Why It Matters for Their Success and Happiness
In this groundbreaking guide, Dr. Rubin taps his 25 years of research on friendship and peer influence to provide parents with the tools and strategies they need to help their children become their... (more)
The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Buildlifelong Resilience
In The Optimistic Child, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman offers parents, teachers, and coaches a well-validated program to prevent depression in children. In a thirty-year study, Seligman and his... (more)
The Dancing Dialogue: Using the Communicative Power of Movement with Young Children
The first approach to focus exclusively on the importance of observing nonverbal expression, "The Dancing Dialogue" shows early childhood professionals how to assess the behavior and movement of... (more)
Locked in - Locked Out: The Experience of Young Offenders Out of Society and
We lock up more young people than any other country in Europe but do we know what happens when they are put into custody? What is the impact on them of a prison regime? Can it be a constructive,... (more)
Teens in Therapy: Making it Their Own
Offers strategies for getting teens to take responsibility for their therapy and their lives. Refusal to attend sessions, excessive confrontation, boredom, and acting out-these are all common... (more)