Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Adolescent psychiatry: Vol.19: Developmental and clinical studies:
Providing a review of current developmental and clinical studies, this volume addresses topics related to adolescent psychological, social and behavioural development, including: education and social... (more)
No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents:
For children whose only language is not talking, therapists need a language that doesn't depend on words. This book offers an innovative approach to treatment of clients who won't or can't respond to... (more)
Joint attention: Its origins and role in development
This volume explores how joint attention first arises, its developmental course, its role in communication and social understanding, and the ways in which disruptions in joint attention may be... (more)
Child sexual abusers: A community treatment approach
Child sexual abuse has been the subject of professional and public interest. This text provides a knowledge-base for understanding child sexual abusers, which is focused on practice but rooted in... (more)
Models of cognitive development:
Beginning with the premise that there are many different models of what knowledge and reasoning are, and of how they develop, this text aims to provide theoretical convergence towards a generally... (more)
The abused child: Psychodynamic understanding and treatment
Capturing the complexities of working with abused children, this text traces the interplay of neurobiological and psychological facets of behaviour, to show how abuse de-rails normal development and... (more)
Emotional development in young children:
The ability to express, understand and regulate emotions is a crucial element in individual functioning and interpersonal interaction. This volume looks at early child development by exploring the... (more)
Becoming Anna
A sixteen-year-old writes powerfully about the physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents and grandmother. 256 pages. (more)
Unspeakable Acts
Victims, survivors, and their supporters want to know how and why people can sexually assault and terrorise children who love and trust them. This book provides a vivid and reliable answer and is an... (more)
Counselling children with chronic medical conditions:
A practical manual of counselling skills for working with children with chronic medical and physical conditions. The book explores the child's understanding of their body and illness, how to... (more)
Typical and atypical development: From Conception to Adolescence
This is a reference work on child development up to the age of eight years. Covering the main features of physiology, cognitive, emotional, and language development in normal children, using an... (more)
The Continuum Concept
The "continuum" is the whole of our environment, from family to society to species. Liedloff's encounters with South American Indians lead her to redefine western people's relationship to their... (more)
Effective intervention in primary schools: Nurture groups
This work shows how primary schools can cost-effectively enable children from damaging backgrounds to have real access to a full curriculum through 'nurture groups'. It draws on experience of these... (more)
Multiaxial classification of child and adolescent psychiatric disorder: The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents
By regulating the order and number of conditions to be recorded in the treatment of a psychiatric patient, ICD-10 - a multiaxial framework - provides for internationally comparable descriptions of... (more)