Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients: Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space
Winnicott’s thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial... (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)
Developing Mental Toughness in Young People: Approaches to Achievement, Well-being, Employability, and Positive Behaviour
The goal of this book is to describe the concept of 'Mental Toughness' in such a way that the reader understands the concept and understands how it relates to the development of young people of all... (more)
Siblings: Envy and Rivalry, Coexistence and Concern
This book consists of selected texts presented at the EFPP Conference in Cracow, Poland, in October 2011. It is an attempt at finding the place of sibling relationships in psychoanalytic theory and... (more)
Enabling and Inspiring: A Tribute to Martha Harris
Martha Harris (1919-1987) was one of the most influential and also one of the most loved psychoanalysts of the generation that trained with Melanie Klein. She also worked with Wilfred Bion, and wrote... (more)
The Course of Life: A 1979 Lecture by Anna Freud (DVD)
Anna Freud delivered the lecture that is the basis for this film in the library of the Hampstead Centre in London, now the Anna Freud Centre. The year was 1979, she was 84 years old, and this was her... (more)
Therapeutic Practice in Schools: Working With the Child Within: A Clinical Workbook for Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Arts Therapists
This book is an indispensable guide to providing therapy services for children and adolescents in primary and secondary school settings. The contributors have extensive experience in the field and... (more)
What is a Child?: Childhood, Psychoanalysis, and Discourse
Childhood is defined in different preconceived manners by different discourses. Thus the categories defined by age such as infant, child, adolescent and so on, are to some extent arbitrary divisions... (more)
Music Therapy and Parent-Infant Bonding
Music Therapy and Parent-Infant Bonding is the first title in the field of music therapy to explore the contribution that music therapy can make in the very early years, for instance in situations... (more)
Helping Abused and Traumatized Children: Integrating Directive and Nondirective Approaches
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family... (more)
Manual for Short-term Psychoanalytic Child Therapy (PaCT)
Manualisation of psychodynamic psychotherapy poses a formidable challenge, but may prove indispensable in the effort to disseminate short-term psychodynamic treatments to a wider patient community.... (more)
The Essential First Year: What Babies Need Parents to Know
This is a new research-based guide to baby-care from the world-renowned authority on child development, Penelope Leach, the expert who transformed the way we raise children. Penelope Leach draws on... (more)
Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Young People: An Introduction
Introducing key psychodynamic theory, concepts and techniques, this text examines the challenges and opportunities of counselling adolescents and children. The book explores a wide variety of... (more)
The Development of the Person
The definitive work on a groundbreaking study, this essential volume provides a coherent picture of the complexity of development from birth to adulthood. Both the methodology of the Minnesota study... (more)
Relational Trauma in Infancy: Psychoanalytic, Attachment and Neuropsychological Contributions to Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
This book presents an interdisciplinary discussion between researchers and clinicians about trauma in the relationship between infants and their parents. It makes an innovative contribution to the... (more)
Prolonged Exposure Therapy for Adolescents With PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences: Therapist Guide
Traumatic events, including sexual abuse, experiencing or witnessing violence, and natural disasters, are common among adolescents. A significant number of adolescents go on to develop posttraumatic... (more)
Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children
In this book Claudia Frank discusses how Melanie Klein began to develop her psychoanalysis of children. Melanie Klein in Berlin: Her First Psychoanalyses of Children offers a detailed comparative... (more)
Saying No: Why It's Important For You and Your Child
Asha Phillips writes as both a child psychotherapist and a mother, using case studies as well as informal anecdotes from family and friends as illustrations. She strips away the negative associations... (more)
Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Relational Approach
This book presents a research-based framework for understanding and treating children and adolescents with personality disorders. While these youngsters are notably challenging to engage, often... (more)
The Early Years of Life: Psychoanalytical Development Theory According to Freud, Klein, and Bion
'This book provides a powerfully argued and beautifully constructed account of the early development of the child in the family context from a psychoanalytic perspective. It draws particularly on the... (more)
Speaking About the Unspeakable: Non-Verbal Methods and Experiences in Therapy with Children
Children do not always have the capacity or need to express themselves through words. They often succeed in saying more about their feelings and experiences by communicating non-verbally through play... (more)
The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Adoption is an extremely complex and emotionally demanding process for all those involved. This book explores the emotional experience of adoption from a psychoanalytic perspective, and demonstrates... (more)
Theory and Practice in Child Psychoanalysis: An Introduction to the Work of Francoise Dolto
During her lifetime Francoise Dolto revolutionized the psychoanalytic understanding of childhood. As an early pioneer, she emphasized that the child is to be recognized from birth as a person. As a... (more)
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
Innovations in Parent-Infant Psychotherapy has emerged from the authors' and contributors' excitement about the proliferation of parent-infant psychotherapy work around the world. This model of... (more)
Extending Thought in Young Children: A Parent-Teacher Partnership
In this fully revised version of Chris Athey's classic text, the author builds on her original research with new illustrations of 'continuity' in children's thinking from early to primary education.... (more)
Your Teenager: Thinking About Your Child During the Secondary School Years
The Teenager books by Martha Harris, originally published in 1969, take a similar approach to her long-term bestseller Thinking about Infants and Young Children. Rooted vividly in the practicalities... (more)
Understanding 4-5-Year-Olds
Understanding 4-5-year-olds gives a thoughtful overview of the challenges that children face as they gradually move away from a strong attachment to their families and turn towards the wider world of... (more)
Working with Parents and Infants: A Mind-Body Integration Approach
Working with Parents and Infants is aimed at understanding the process of psychosomatic illness, exploring the embodiment of psychosomatic health and illness, and the inseparability of psyche and... (more)
Signs of Autism in Infants: Recognition and Early Intervention
As a group, babies later diagnosed as autistic are found to have more complications during gestation and delivery than their normal siblings and others. In addition to all these complications,... (more)
The Heart of Development: Gestalt Approaches to Working with Children, Adolescents and Their Worlds: Vol. 1 Childhood
In these groundbreaking new collections, the reader will find an exciting, boad-ranging selection of work showing an array of applications of the Gestalt model to working with children, adolescents,... (more)