Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Ritalin Nation: Rapid-fire culture and the transformation of human conciousness
A critical investigation into the epidemic of Attention Deficit Disorder and its most widely prescribed treatment, Ritalin. (more)
The psychological assessment of abused and traumatized children:
This text offers a clinical paradigm for the personality assessment of abused or traumatized children via projective instruments - the TAT and Rorschach. It also draws on both theory and clinical... (more)
Infant development: essential readings: The essential readings
This work provides students with a selection of some of the key articles by researchers in this area of developmental psychology. (more)
Psychoses of the schizophrenic spectrum in twins: A discussion on the nature-nurture debate in the etiology of endogenous psychoses
Contradictory results in schizophrenia research are due to genetic heterogeneity and multiple factor heredity in relationship to environmental factors. This text examines twin studies on... (more)
Psychotherapy of sexually abused children and their families:
A guide to the evaluation and treatment of sexually abused children. Starting with a broad theoretical basis, this book assesses the affect of abuse on the children's cognitive, behavioural and... (more)
Touch in early development
This volume features presentations made at a "Touch In Infancy" symposium which focussed on infant development. Designed to conduct basic research on touch and on the skin, topics include massage... (more)
On playing a poor hand well: Insights from the lives of those who have overcome childhood risks and adversities
Postulating the premise that many happy and productive adults grew up under difficult conditions, this book draws upon research examining life's trajectories. It identifies the sources of strength... (more)
Object Relations in Severe Trauma: Psychotherapy of the Sexually Abused Child
The role of childhood sexual abuse in the development of adult psychological disorders has been confirmed clinically and epidemiologically. This text seeks to provide both an integrated theory and a... (more)
Strong at the broken places: Overcoming the trauma of childhood abuse
This challenges the idea that childhood victims are caught forever in the vicious circle of abuse. In 17 years of working with victims and survivors, the author discovered that most survivors break... (more)
Frontiers of developmental psychopathology:
Developmental psychopathology is a multidisciplinary approach to the study of process mechanisms involved in the emergence of psychopathology. This volume explores current research in schizophrenia,... (more)
Developmental psychopathology and family process: Theory, research, and clinical implications
Reviewing current research in such areas as attachment and parenting styles, marital functioning, and parental depression, the volume examines how these variables may influence developmental... (more)
Children talk about the mind:
The text charts the early developmental stages in children's growing awareness and understanding of mind. More than 12,000 conversations by children between the ages of one and a half and six have... (more)