Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development: Classic Edition
Decades ahead of its time, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self was the first volume to bring together the disparate fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and the neural sciences.... (more)
Overcoming Chronic Fatigue in Young People: A Cognitive-Behavioural Self-Help Guide
Overcoming Chronic Fatigue in Young People provides an effective evidence-based, step-by-step guide to managing and overcoming chronic fatigue. The highly experienced leading experts in the field,... (more)
The Science Inside the Child: The Story of What Happens When We're Growing Up
This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do. It looks at children's individual development within the... (more)
Trauma Systems Therapy for Children and Teens: Second Edition
This highly practical book has helped thousands of clinicians make the most of limited resources to support children and families struggling with chronic, multiple adversities. Trauma systems therapy... (more)
Assessment for Intervention: A Problem-Solving Approach: Second Edition
Problem-solving assessment is an essential component of multi-tiered systems of support such as response to intervention (RTI) and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). This... (more)
Self-Injury in Youth: The Essential Guide to Assessment and Intervention
This edited volume features evidence-based reviews and practical approaches for the professional in the hospital, clinic, community and school, with case examples throughout. Divided into five major... (more)
Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children and Adolescents: Measures, Methods, and Youth in Context
In this volume, Kathleen Nader has compiled an articulate and comprehensive guide to the complex process of assessment in youth and adolescent trauma. There are many issues that are important to... (more)
Relational Treatment of Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope
Relational Treatment of Trauma: Stories of Loss and Hope is the culmination of over 35 years of psychotherapy with children and adults, many of whom have suffered the effects of physical, emotional,... (more)
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents: A 12-Session Curriculum
Mindfulness-Based Substance Abuse Treatment for Adolescents is a group-based curriculum incorporating mindfulness, self-awareness, and substance-abuse treatment strategies for use with adolescents... (more)
Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents: Phase-Oriented Strategies for Addressing Complex Trauma Disorders
Attachment-Focused Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents brings together two powerful treatment directions that exponentially expand the knowledge and skills available to child and adolescent... (more)
Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents: A Four-Phase Model
Expressive Arts Therapy for Traumatized Children and Adolescents is the book so many expressive-arts and trauma therapists have been waiting for - not only does it lay out an organized, thorough... (more)
The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy: Second Edition
In The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents you will find the most powerful tools available for aiding children with their feelings, incorporating play techniques into therapy,... (more)
Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Sixth Edition
This Sixth Edition is an essential read for all professionals working and learning in the fields of child and adolescent mental health and developmental psychopathology, as well as for clinicians... (more)
Winnicott's Theory of the Maturational Processes
This book presents the central concepts of Winnicott’s theory of the maturational processes, clarifying its premises and providing an organised description of the various stages, with their... (more)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families: Third Edition
Now firmly established as the standard text on the subject, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Children and Families, 3rd edition incorporates new and updated material on many topics not covered in... (more)
Asperger's Children: Psychodynamics, Aetiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment
The DSM-5 (2013) classifies all autism-related disorders, including Asperger’s, under the heading “autism spectrum disorder.” This book argues that this lumping together is unhelpful for clinicians.... (more)
Working with Children and Adolescents in Residential Care: A Strengths-Based Approach
Working with Children and Adolescents in Residential Care: A Strengths-Based Approach is written for professionals who work with children and youth in out of home placements, be they social services... (more)
Assessing Children in the Urban Community: Bringing in the Village
This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their... (more)
Play Therapy Interventions to Enhance Resilience
The importance of therapeutic play in helping children recover from adversity has long been recognized. This unique volume brings together experts on resilience, trauma, and play therapy to describe... (more)
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children: Third Edition
Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from... (more)
Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents: Tools for Enhancing Practice
Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities - all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework - this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their... (more)
Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents: The Nuts and Bolts: Second Edition
Widely regarded as the standard teaching text and practitioner reference, this book provides a complete introduction to doing cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with 6- to 18-year-olds. The authors... (more)
Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Theory and Clinical Interventions: Second Edition
Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents presents a series of unique and compelling case studies written by some of the foremost international experts in the study of dissociation in... (more)
An Independent Mind: Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins
An Independent Mind: Collected Papers of Juliet Hopkins follows the professional journey and influence of an innovative figure in the history of child psychotherapy. Juliet Hopkins spans Kleinian and... (more)
Grief and Trauma in Children: An Evidence-Based Treatment Manual
Grief and Trauma in Children provides easy-to-implement, ready-to-use therapy materials to help busy practitioners use grief and trauma interventions in real-world settings. All interventions in the... (more)
Do Mothers Dream of Electric Babies?: The Importance of Emotional Bonds for Growing, Nurturing, and Educating
We live in a society that ignores and disregards attachment needs and feelings. Starting from this consideration, the author describes the stages of human emotional development in a lucid narrative... (more)
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Adolescents with Depression: A Treatment Manual
Short-term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (STPP) is a manualised, time-limited model of psychoanalytic psychotherapy comprising twenty-eight weekly sessions for the adolescent patient and seven... (more)
Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Compact and authoritative guidance on evidence-based treatment for ADHD in children and adolescents.
Part of the Advances in Psychotherapy -Evidence-Based Practice series, which provides... (more)
Understanding Applied Behavior Analysis: An Introduction to ABA for Parents, Teachers, and Other Professionals: Second Edition
This introductory guide to ABA demystifies the often complex terminology, the underlying principles, and commonly-used procedures of ABA using accessible, everyday language. This revised and updated... (more)
A Short Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Children with Eating Disorders
More and more young people are suffering from eating disorders, but there are many different types and they are often confused, making it difficult to know what support to offer. This easy-to-read... (more)