Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Learning unlimited: Using homework to engage your child's natural style of intelligence
This guide presents a creative, positive approach to the role of homework for parents and children, illustrating how with parental help, homework can rekindle and support the urge to learn and take... (more)
Attack on the self: adolescent behavioral disturbances and their treatment:
Argues that adolescents who wage war on their own lives can be successfully treated. Topics covered include: adolescent sexual disorders; adolescent suicide; adolescent violence and predatory... (more)
In the shadow of illness: Parents and siblings of the chronically ill child
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Child Mental Health in Primary Care:
This text helps general practitioners, health visitors and other professionals working in primary care to assess, manage and refer children and adolescents with mental health problems. The book... (more)
Chronic childhood disease: An introduction to psychological theory and research
The author draws extensively on the published research findings in child health psychology, and also on her own experience of working with paediatric medical and nursing staff. The emphasis... (more)
Children communicating: The first five years
Offering a focus on the development of human communication, this text incorporates materials dealing with the development of nonverbal communication, language, and cognition, and examines how they... (more)
Mollie is three: Growing up in school
Traces the development of a three-year-old nursery school student, looks at how young children use fantasy play to help make sense of the world, and describes interactions between three- and... (more)
Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention
Eighteen chapters have been added to the second edition of this handbook, which serves as a core text for students and experienced professionals who are interested in the health and well being of... (more)
Willy and the Wobbly House: A Story for Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional
This is a story for children who are anxious or obsessional. Willy is an anxious boy who experiences the world as a very unsafe, wobbly place where anything awful might happen at any time. Joe, the... (more)
Helping Children Who are Anxious or Obsessional: A Guidebook
The "Story Books for Troubled Children" series is designed to help children who are troubled in their lives. The stories act as vehicles to encourage children to think about and connect with their... (more)
Helping Children Who Yearn for Someone they Love: A Guidebook to The Frog who Longed for the Moon to Smile
The "Story Books for Troubled Children" series is designed to help children who are troubled in their lives. The stories act as vehicles to encourage children to think about and connect with their... (more)
Group counselling and psychotherapy with adolescents:
This handbook offers an overview of group dynamic theory and the essentials for adolescent group work in a variety of locations, including schools, clinics and family violence programmes. The text... (more)