Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Understanding Your One-Year-Old
How does a one-year-old's mind and personality develop and grow? How does your role as a parent change when your baby starts to walk, talk and really explore the world around her? How do you support... (more)
Understanding Your Two-Year-Old
What makes children in their 'terrible twos' behave as they do? How can parents decide when their child is ready for day care, and manage their child's transition to a trusted child minder? Lisa... (more)
Understanding 12-14-Year-Olds
Margot Waddell offers helpful advice to parents whose children have reached the turbulent teenage years. From conflict management to addressing issues of bullying, stealing and same-sex friendships,... (more)
Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View
In this book, Moses and Egle Laufer contend that severely disturbed adolescents can be assessed and treated psychoanalytically, that their illness differs from comparable illnesses in older patients,... (more)
Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
This collection of papers from psychoanalysts across Europe is intended to highlight the similarites and differences between approaches to working with children and adolescents. Part of the EFPP... (more)
Home is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
A series of papers divided into three groups: 'Health and Illness', 'The Family', and 'Reflections on society'. (more)
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence
When The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense was first published in German in 1936 it was at once recognized as a major contribution to psychoanalytic psychology, and its translation into English... (more)
Psychological Processes of Childbearing
Childbearing seems eternal, primordial and universal. Yet human reproduction in the 21st century is in a state of flux. This accessible book highlights dramatic changes that have occurred over the... (more)
Play Therapy in Action
This casebook offers step-by-step treatment guidelines for a number of childhood difficulties, including internalization, externalization, and post-traumatic disorders. It brings together concrete... (more)
The Motherhood Constellation: A Unified View of Parent-Infant Psychotherapy
The author addresses the field of infant mental health. He draws on his experience - in both the lab and the clinic - to present an integrated model of treatment for both infants and their... (more)
Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service for children.
The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), based at the Tavistock and... (more)
Relationship-based Treatment of Children and their Parents: An Integrative Guide to Neurobiology, Attachment, Regulation, and Discipline
Children and families burdened with attachment disruption, emotional distress, or psychological disorders need effective and immediate assistance. They do not have the time to wait for long-term... (more)
Mother-Baby-Toddler Group Guide: A Psychodynamic Approach
This book is a comprehensive guide for leading mother-baby-toddler groups, a text for teaching child development, and a handbook for early intervention.
The guidelines provide a detailed... (more)
Infancy: The Basics
Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants... (more)
Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents
Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Adolescents and Children is a groundbreaking collection of chapters by an international group of analytic authors. The book addresses the... (more)
Child Agency and Voice in Therapy: New Ways of Working in the Arts Therapies
Child Agency and Voice in Therapy offers innovatory ways of thinking about, and working with, children in therapy.
The book:
considers different practices such as respecting the rights of... (more)
Baby Observation: Emotional Relationships during the First Year of Life
‘Manuel Pérez-Sánchez has presented a very vivid description of a baby’s first year of life. Direct observational material is lent understanding through the combination of his and Esther Bick’s... (more)
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are: Third Edition
This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is,... (more)
Bullying at Schools: What We Know and What We Can Do
Discusses bully/victim problems in school and suggests effective ways of counteracting and preventing such problems. The book examines a new intervention programme that has been scientifically... (more)
Handbook of Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups: Second Edition
The definitive handbook on peer relations has now been significantly revised with 55% new material. Bringing together leading authorities, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the dynamics... (more)
Integrating Yoga and Play Therapy: The Mind-Body Approach for Healing Adverse Childhood Experiences
This book presents the foundational knowledge to ethically and knowledgably integrate yoga into play therapy practice with children and families and create life-long change. The mind-body connection... (more)
Therapeutic Parenting Essentials: Moving from Trauma to Trust
All families of children affected by trauma are on a journey, and this book will help to guide you and your family on your journey from trauma to trust. Sarah Naish shares her own experiences of... (more)
Supporting Vulnerable Babies and Young Children: Interventions for Working with Trauma, Mental Health, Illness and Other Complex Challenges
The diverse challenges that clinicians and children's workers tasked with safeguarding babies and young children face are complex, and this unique book looks at effective, practice-based and... (more)
The Anxiety Survival Guide: Getting through the Challenging Stuff
Co-written with psychologists and a college student who has experienced anxiety herself, this is a relatable and straightforward guide to managing worry in emerging adulthood. As well as providing... (more)
The Fast Track Program for Children at Risk: Preventing Antisocial Behavior
This unique volume reports on the largest long-term preventive intervention study ever conducted with children at risk for serious violence and poor life outcomes. From first through 10th grade, Fast... (more)
Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
By offering unique analysis and synthesis of theory, empirical research, and clinical guidance in an up-to-date and unbiased context, this book assists health and social care professionals in... (more)
Understanding Conduct Disorder and Oppositional-Defiant Disorder
This vital guide takes a new approach to conduct and oppositional defiant disorders (CD and ODD), presenting the science in an accessible way to empower both parents and practitioners. Vanzin and... (more)
Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents
Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and... (more)