Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Practitioner's Guide to Child Art Therapy: Fostering Creativity and Relational Growth
Even in the face of challenging conditions, art therapy treatment offers meaningful opportunities for growth. It's not always easy, though, to navigate the complex interplay of art processes,... (more)
Creating Safe and Supportive Learning Environments: A Guide for Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth and Families
The importance of creating safe spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in the school environment cannot be overstated. It is one of the most prominent issues... (more)
People Under Three: Young Children in Childcare Centres: Third Edition
People Under Three translates child development theory and research into everyday practice. Focusing on the childcare of very young children, it is designed specifically for those who look after them... (more)
A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working with High-Risk Adolescents
A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Working With High-Risk Adolescents is an accessible introduction to a new model of therapy that combines the Buddhist concept of mindfulness with modern trends in... (more)
Social and Academic Abilities in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
A uniquely comprehensive resource for practitioners, this research-based book addresses both the social-emotional and cognitive-academic challenges faced by children and adolescents with... (more)
Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence
Highly readable and comprehensive, this volume explores the significance of friendship for social, emotional, and cognitive development from early childhood through adolescence. The authors trace how... (more)
Sibling Matters: A Psychoanalytic, Developmental, and Systemic Approach
This original book gives a timely exploration of the importance of sibling relationships from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It presents for the first time an account of the work on brothers and... (more)
Young Child Observation: A Development in the Theory and Method of Infant Observation
Observing young children at play is an everyday and often fascinating and pleasurable experience for many of us. It also has a great pedigree in the development of psychoanalysis from Freud’s... (more)
Becoming Who We Are: Temperament and Personality in Development
This definitive work comprehensively examines the role of temperament in the development of personality and psychopathology. Preeminent researcher Mary Rothbart synthesizes current knowledge on... (more)
Person-Centred Therapy with Children and Young People: A Child-Centred Approach
This engaging new book presents a 'child-centred' model of therapy that is thoroughly person-centred in its values. Establishing the roots of child-centred therapy in both child development theories... (more)
The Essentials of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools
The book is targeted at all practitioners in the helping and enabling professions working with children and young people, and is essential reading for anyone undertaking training where elements of... (more)
Childhood Denied: Ending the Nightmare of Child Abuse and Neglect
This book delves into the reasons for continuous disregard politically, legally, socially of children at risk for abuse and neglect. It examines where we've been and why we're not making more... (more)
Early Parenting and Prevention of Disorder: Psychoanalytic Research at Interdisciplinary Frontiers
This book provides insight and findings from leading psychoanalysts who are involved in early prevention research and clinical work. Advances in the sciences of early development have brought a... (more)
Therapist's Guide to Pediatric Affect and Behavior Regulation
this new book on child clinical intervention presents much of the material in outline or bullet point format, allowing easy understanding of complex material for the busy therapist. This clinician's... (more)
Treatment Planning for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Individualized, Problem-Solving Approach
Diagnoses of autism in children are on the rise, and while some clinicians have training and experience in this area, the majority does not. This book reviews a variety of interventions and... (more)
Infant Research and Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy: Expanding the Clinical Repertoire
By decoding the scientific data, this book explains how recent findings from brain and infant research can expand a clinician's understanding of the therapist-client relationship and, in turn,... (more)
What Are They Thinking?!: The Straight Facts About the Risk-Taking, Social-Networking, Still-Developing Teen Brain
Adolescence has long been characterized as the storm and stress years, and with recent developments in digital communication, it seems today s teens are in for a more complicated journey than ever... (more)
Chosen: Living with Adoption
Chosen brings together writing and poetry by over 50 UK adopted adults born between 1934 and 1984. Through a broad range of perspectives – adoption within the extended family, late discovery adopted... (more)
The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story
In this new edition of a classic in adoption literature, Mother Bird rises to meet the challenges of bringing up her baby bird against all odds and elements. When a storm scatters her nest, she is... (more)
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts: A Guide to Healing Developmental Trauma and Attachments
Reparenting the Child Who Hurts equips parents and primary carers with the knowledge and skills to be able to respond to children's changing needs as they move through childhood. In clear,... (more)
The Art and Science of Motivation: A Therapist's Guide to Working with Children
The authors' groundbreaking approach to working with children and their parents or carers places motivation at the heart of all encounters and therapeutic activities.
The book provides readers... (more)
Surviving Girlhood: Building Positive Relationships, Attitudes and Self-esteem to Prevent Teenage Girl Bullying
Teenage girls can be mean. Often stemming from poor self-awareness, self-esteem and lack of relationship skills, complex friendship dynamics can be difficult to unravel and bullying can be hard to... (more)
Starving the Anxiety Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Anxiety Management for Young People
The Anxiety Gremlin loves one thing - to feed on your anxiety and get bigger and bigger, making you more anxious the fuller he gets! How can you stop him? Starve him of his favourite food - your... (more)
Starving the Stress Gremlin: A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Workbook on Stress Management for Young People
Watch out for the Stress Gremlin - he loves to feed on your stress, and as he gets bigger and bolder, you get more and more stressed! How can he be stopped? Don't give him any more stress to eat, and... (more)
Observing Children with Attachment Difficulties in Preschool Settings: A Tool for Assessment and Support
For preschool children with emotional difficulties arising from difficulties in attachment, standard observations used in early years settings are not always helpful in identifying their problems and... (more)
Observing Children with Attachment or Emotional Difficulties in School: A Tool for Identifying and Supporting Emotional and Social Difficulties
Emotional difficulties in children aged 5-11 can display themselves in a range of different behaviours, and it is important for staff in schools to be able to identify and address these problems, and... (more)
Play, Gender, Therapy: Selected Papers of Eleanor Galenson
Eleanor Galenson had a remarkable career whose singular focus was her life-long interest in the maturational and psychosexual vicissitudes of infancy and early childhood. The selection of her... (more)
Healing Art and Young People
In Healing Art and Young People, Trevor Jeavons gives a valuable insight into the world of art therapy. Interweaving moving examples from his work with young patients with his professional and... (more)
Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles: Understanding the Experience of Miscarriage, Premature Births, Infertility, and Postnatal Depression
There are many books that deal with pregnancy and maternity, and a large number of magazines and articles on paediatric nursing that examine these subjects from different points of view. This volume... (more)
Your Dieting Daughter: Antidotes Parents Can Provide for Body Dissatisfaction, Excessive Dieting, and Disordered Eating: Second Edition
Your Dieting Daughter is a must read for anyone wanting to help contribute to a young woman's development of a healthy self and body esteem, whether she is 13 or 30. Costin has updated the first... (more)