Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Handbook of psychological services for children and adolescents:
Provides key elements which should be part of any successful programme tailored to the needs of children with mental, behavioural, or emotional disorders. This text aims to provide an overview of the... (more)
Children, family and the state: Decision-making and child-participation
This study of children's participation in decisions about their care draws on recent work in sociology and anthropology, psychology and legal philosophy in order to understand this challenging area... (more)
The body, childhood and society:
This work examines how children's bodies are constructed in schools, families, courts, hospitals and in film. Recognizing that children's bodies are a target for adult practices of social regulation,... (more)
Progress in infancy research:
This volume presents the syntheses of theory and research on infants development, both human and animal, for researchers in developmental psychology and neuroscience. (more)
Developmental Health
Probing the effects of the social environment upon human development, this volume asks how one can best support the health and well-being of infants and children in an era of rapid economic and... (more)
Promoting children's emotional well-being:
This text is about strategies to ensure that children maximize their potential and increase the quality of their lives by fostering well-being as a concept inclusive of confidence, empathy,... (more)
The tender years: Toward developmentally sensitive child welfare services for very young children
This work offers an overview of child welfare systems. It examines child abuse reporting patterns and discusses placement in foster care, reunification, and adoption. It also looks at public child... (more)
Muddles, puddles and sunshine
Produced in association with Winston's Wish - supporting bereaved children and young people - this beautifully illustrated book offers practical and sensitive support for bereaved children. 32 pages. (more)
Children with learning disabilities: Social functioning and adjustment
Research shows that children with learning disabilities may experience emotional as well as cognitive difficulties. This book provides an account of the social cognitive development of children with... (more)
Child and adolescent behaviour problems: A multidisciplinary approach to assessment and intervention
The evidence that many children's behavioural difficulties have their origins in the earliest years of their lives continues to accumulate. This book outlines the challenges of working in a... (more)
Social work with children:
How can social workers enable vulnerable children to have a voice in the complex systems designed to protect them and promote their welfare? This text addresses these and other questions, setting out... (more)
Early years play: A happy medium for assessment and intervention
Provides a description and analysis of play and its use in helping young children to reach their potential. It is aimed at professionals working with young children with special educational needs and... (more)
The essentials of Bayley scales of infant development:
This guide provides interpretative, scoring, and administrative guidelines for the Bayley scales, which measure the mental, motor, and behavioural development of infants, and which assess children... (more)
The foundation of literacy: The child's acquisition of the alphabetic principle
This monograph brings together research that the author and his colleagues at the University of New England have been conducting into the early stages of reading development. It is written in an... (more)
Developing talent across the lifespan:
This volume presents theoretical perspectives and empirical findings on the life-span development of talent. It show how talents are the result of the acquisition of a sequence of skills and how the... (more)
Children at Play
Children's play has been studied by clinicians as an indicator of the individual's early emotional development. More recently, developmental psychologists have taken an interest in play for what it... (more)
The depressed child and adolescent
Second edition. This is an account of the nature and characteristics of depression in children and adolescents. It discusses the historical development of the concept and provides a synthesis of... (more)
Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
Reviews established and emerging aspects of conduct disorder, highlighting its complexity and likely heterogeneity, including biological, neuropsychological and cognitive factors, and the role of... (more)
Challenging behaviour: Principles and practice
This volume focuses on working with people who have challenging behaviours from staff from all professions, but also parents, relatives and friends. It discusses what to do in challenging situations,... (more)
Recurring themes in education:
Explores six recurring educational themes, which each generation of educators needs to address. 146 pages. (more)
The gift of a child: A guide to donor insemination
Contains clear, non-technical information about childlessness caused by male infertility, and about how this childlessness can be resolved by the use of donor insemination. This book draws on the... (more)
Working with parents of SEN children after the Code of Practice:
The aim of this text is to: identify existing good practice and present areas of developing practice; appraise the early impact of the Code in respect of partnership; and provide a forum for the... (more)
Home-school work in Britain: Review, reflection and development
This work illustrates the changing relations among teachers, governors, parents and pupils. It aims to provide a useful critique of the rhetoric of partnership and its achievements and shortcomings... (more)
Parenting education and support: New opportunities
Offers an in-depth examination of parenting eduction and support in a wide range of contexts. The authors examine practice in a variety of settings and the theory underpinning these practices, where... (more)