Child and Adolescent Studies Books
A Therapist's Guide to Neurodiversity Affirming Practice with Children and Young People
In this honest and practical guide, autistic therapist Raelene Dundon explores and demystifies how neurodiversity affirming principles can be easily applied to therapeutic practice.
Covering... (more)
The Myth of Attachment Theory: A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies
The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory - challenging its scientific basis and questioning the relevance in our modern, superdiverse and multicultural... (more)
Children in Lockdown: Learning the Lessons of Pandemic Times
Children in Lockdown: Learning the Lessons of Pandemic Times acknowledges the constant change and adaptation that was required in real time and the reverberations that continue today. It provides the... (more)
Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual
Bringing together leading authorities, this volume synthesizes the breadth of current research on child and adolescent treatment into a practical handbook for students and clinicians. The book was... (more)
Time-Limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Developmentally-Focused Psychotherapy for Young People
Time-Limited Adolescent Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Developmentally-Focused Psychotherapy for Young People will be an indispensable clinician's guide to the practice of Time-Limited Adolescent... (more)
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy: Paternal Subjectivity interfaces theoretical ideas about fatherhood and their incorporation into the clinical practice of... (more)
Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Radical Relational Approach
Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic... (more)
Teaching Theory of Mind: A Curriculum for Children with High Functioning Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and Related Social Challenges
This book provides an innovative, easy-to-follow curriculum for teaching children with autism spectrum disorders to relate to and interact with others successfully by developing basic Theory of Mind... (more)
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Fourth Edition: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment
Widely regarded as the standard clinical reference, this volume provides the best current knowledge about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, adolescents, and adults. The... (more)
The Tavistock Model: Papers on Child Development and Psychoanalytic Training
This is one of a new two volume edition of Collected Papers of Martha Harris and Esther Bick, which includes some papers not published in the first edition. The companion volume, Adolescence, by... (more)
The Newborn in the Intensive Care Unit: A Neuropsychoanalytic Prevention Model: Revised Edition
This revised edition of the book has been updated and extended with the addition of chapters on the death of the child and on the experience of siblings. Using infant observation and her... (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)
Melanie Klein: The Basics
Melanie Klein: The Basics provides an accessible and concise introduction to the life and work of Melanie Klein, whose discoveries advanced those of Freud and other analysts, deepening our insight... (more)
Twins: From Fetus to Child
Scientifically based, but warmly human in content, this unique longitudinal study offers new insights to professionals working with mothers and families of twins and to researchers in human... (more)
Cultivating Compassion: A Psychodynamic Understanding of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Cultivating Compassion offers an effective and highly sensitive psychodynamic approach for working with ADHD children and their parents. Conway seamlessly interweaves theory and practice to present a... (more)
Essential Play Therapy Techniques: Time-Tested Approaches
Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to... (more)
Dialogues with Children and Adolescents: A Psychoanalytic Guide
Psychoanalytic work with children is popular, but the sophisticated language used in psychoanalytic discourse can be at odds with how children communicate, and how best to communicate with them.... (more)
The Collected Works of Melanie Klein
A four-volume set including Melanie Klein's best-known works.
This is a facsimile edition of the 1975 Hogarth Press four-volume set.
Volume I - “Love, Guilt and Reparation” and Other Works... (more)
The Healing Forest in Post-Crisis Work with Children: A Nature Therapy and Expressive Arts Program for Groups
Nature Therapy is an innovative approach for working with children who have experienced stress or trauma. For the first time in the English language, this book presents the theory behind the approach... (more)
Reflective Parenting: A Guide to Understanding What's Going on in Your Child's Mind
Have you ever wondered what's going on in your child's mind? This engaging book shows how reflective parenting can help you understand your children, manage their behaviour and build your... (more)
Deep Play: Exploring the Use of Depth in Psychotherapy with Children
Therapeutic deep play has the capacity for children to express deep emotions, overcome seemingly insurmountable issues and resolve serious problems. Working with children in this profound way,... (more)
Towards Belonging: Negotiating New Relationships for Adopted Children and Those in Care
This book includes contributions from a wide range of interested observers and practitioners in the field of children in care and adoption, focusing on a core aspect of their emotional well-being and... (more)
The Shadow of the Second Mother: Nurses and Nannies in Theories of Infant Development
The Shadow of the Second Mother explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that "second mothers", such as wet nurses... (more)
Skills in Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Young People
As interest and training in counselling children and young people continues to grow, it is essential that counsellors are equipped with the skills to work with this client group. In this book,... (more)
Changing Destinies: The Re-Start Infant Family Programme for Early Autistic Behaviours
The term ‘pre-autism’ is becoming more widespread as a result of growing awareness of the importance of a child’s first three years of life in diagnosing behaviours which, if untreated, can develop... (more)
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain: Second Edition
Why Love Matters explains why loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early years, and how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future emotional and... (more)
Therapeutic Practice in Schools Volume Two: The Contemporary Adolescent: A Clinical Workbook for School-based Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists
This second edition serves as a practical handbook for school-based counsellors, psychotherapists, arts therapists and play therapists working with young people. Written in accessible language, it is... (more)
Helping Children with Low Self-Esteem: A Guidebook
This is a guidebook to help children who: "don't like themselves or feel there is something fundamentally wrong with them"; "have been deeply shamed"; "have received too much criticism or haven't... (more)
Group Play Therapy: A Dynamic Approach
Group Play Therapy presents an updated look at an effective yet underutilized therapeutic intervention. More than just an approach to treating children, group play therapy is a life-span approach,... (more)
Ethical Practice in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Psychotherapy: Protecting Safety in a Therapeutic Environment
Provides a detailed study of ethical dilemmas of the child therapist and the child analyst, whose work with children and their parents presents unique and perplexing problems. The book examines both... (more)