Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy
Parent-Child Art Psychotherapy presents a working model of ways to incorporate parents into a child's art therapy sessions, drawing on the relational-psychoanalytic notion of mentalization in the... (more)
Play-Based Interventions for Childhood Anxieties, Fears, and Phobias
Illustrating the power of play for helping children overcome a wide variety of worries, fears, and phobias, this book provides a toolkit of play therapy approaches and techniques. Coverage... (more)
Art for Children Experiencing Psychological Trauma: A Guide for Educators and School-Based Professionals
Art for Children Experiencing Psychological Trauma aims to increase understanding of art's potential to enhance learning for children living in crisis. In this groundbreaking resource, the first of... (more)
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Guide to Evaluation and Treatment
Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Children and Adolescents provides an innovative perspective on developmental disorders in youth, one focused on embracing and working with the messiness and many... (more)
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International perspective
Hope for Children of Trauma: An International Perspective synthesizes all the existing evidence, policy and practice from around the world for children and youth who have experienced different forms... (more)
Understanding Teen Eating Disorders: Warning Signs, Treatment Options, and Stories of Courage
Understanding Teen Eating Disorders introduces readers to common teen eating disorder scenarios, their warning signs, and treatment options. Each chapter examines a teen or tween and brings the... (more)
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child... (more)
Analytic Engagements with Adolescents: Sex, Gender, and Subversion
In Analytic Engagements with Adolescents, Mary T. Brady takes on the intensity and heat of adolescent psychoanalytic treatment.She is a guide in the distinctive challenges of work with adolescents.... (more)
Re-Circuiting Trauma Pathways in Adults, Parents, and Children: A Brain-Based, Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Method
Re-Circuiting Trauma Pathways in Adults, Parents, and Children presents the evidence-informed and substantiated Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model (ITTM), with an emphasis on up-to-date trauma... (more)
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children
Transforming Despair to Hope: Reflections on the Psychotherapeutic Process with Severely Neglected and Traumatised Children offers a thorough overview of the problems and rewards of trying to help... (more)
Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk: Second Edition
This second edition is fully updated and addresses ways in which we can apply stories and storytelling with children who are troubled. Stories can empower children to take action and ask for help,... (more)
Creative Play with Children at Risk: Second Edition
This second edition is fully updated with the latest good practice in play. Based on an understanding of 'Neuro-Dramatic-Play', the book shows that play is an essential part of children's healthy... (more)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
Filling a tremendous need, this highly practical book adapts the proven techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to treatment of multiproblem adolescents at highest risk for suicidal behavior... (more)
Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents: A Casebook for Clinical Practice: Third Edition
Thousands of clinicians and students have turned to this casebook - now completely revised with 90% new material - to see what cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) looks like in action with the most... (more)
Understanding Child and Adolescent Grief: Supporting Loss and Facilitating Growth
Carrie Arnold, MEd, has been an adjunct faculty in thanatology and psychology at King's University College, Western University since 2005. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian... (more)
The Boarding School Girls: Developmental and Cultural Narratives
They were children. Put on a train in a strange land, they waved goodbye to a parent as they headed to an educational institution that, unbeknownst to them, was to become their new home. Separated... (more)
Parenting from the Inside Out - 10th Anniversary Edition: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
Have you ever thought: "I can't believe I just said to my child the very thing my parents used to say to me! Am I destined to repeat the mistakes of my parents?" In Parenting from the Inside Out,... (more)
Transforming Infant Wellbeing: Research Policy and Practice for the First 1001 Critical Days
Transforming Infant Wellbeing brings together science and policy to highlight the critical importance of the first 1001 days of infancy: the period from conception to the second birthday. Introduced... (more)
Helping Teens Work Through Grief
The second edition of Helping Teens Work Through Grief provides a more complete and updated manual for facilitators of teen grief groups. It includes additional background information about... (more)
Severe Emotional Disturbances in Children and Adolescents: Psychotherapy in Applied Contexts
Conveying the experiences of severely emotionally disturbed children in detailed accounts of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, this title explores the life and death struggles against severe self-harm to... (more)
The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse
Guiding the reader through what constitutes age-appropriate and typical sexual development in children, Christiane Sanderson enables parents and teachers to recognize atypical sexual development and... (more)
Treating Parent-Infant Relationship Problems: Strategies for Intervention
Within a developmental framework, this book presents a range of effective approaches to treating early relationship difficulties and promoting more sensitive and responsive parenting. Experts detail... (more)
Supporting Parents: Messages from Research
"Supporting Parents" explores the range of supports that parents find effective and how those supports might be improved or better mobilized. It draws from studies on the general population as well... (more)
The Terrible Teens: What Every Parent Needs to Know
In The Terrible Teens, chapters on mood swings, how teenagers think, reducing conflict, family living, the importance of friendships, life at school, sex, drink and drugs provide parents with the... (more)
Assessing Children's Needs and Circumstances: The Impact of the Assessment Framework
Cleaver and Walker show how the principles embodied in the assessment framework have actually been applied in childcare provision. They lay out clear implications for practitioners and managers,... (more)
Sibling Relationships: Theory and Issues for Practice
The impact of sibling relationships on how we develop has been dramatically underemphasized in the literature on child development.
Mental Health Services for Minority Ethnic Children and Adolescents
Bringing together current research on mental health services for children from minority ethnic backgrounds, this much-needed resource provides guidance for both practice and policy.