Child and Adolescent Studies Books
The Simple Guide to Attachment Difficulties in Children: What They Are and How to Help
Full of helpful information and advice, this is the perfect introduction for any adult parenting or caring for a child who has experienced attachment difficulties. (more)
Saying Goodbye: A Casebook of Termination in Child and Adolescent Analysis and Therapy
Termination of psychoanalysis or psychotherapy is centrally important both to the process of treatment and to the patient's experience of treatment. It is surprising, then, that there has heretofore... (more)
The Art of Working with Anxious Antagonistic Adolescents: Ways Forward for Frontline Professionals
This is a series of surprising and candid conversations held between veteran counsellor Nick Luxmoore and professionals working with young people. Based entirely on stories from the author's... (more)
Me and My PDA: A Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance for Young People
This beautifully illustrated guide helps young people with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) to understand their diagnosis, develop self-awareness and implement their own personalised... (more)
Expecting Mindfully: Nourish Your Emotional Well-Being and Prevent Depression during Pregnancy and Postpartum
Expecting and nurturing a baby is a joyous experience, but also involves unique emotional challenges. Unlike other mindfulness resources for moms and moms-to-be, this compassionate book is grounded... (more)
Teen Mental Health in an Online World: Supporting Young People around their Use of Social Media Apps Gaming Texting and the Rest
This essential book shows practitioners how they can engage with teens' online lives to support their mental health. Drawing on interviews with young people it discusses how adults can have open and... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other
Lacanian Psychoanalysis between the Child and the Other explores what topology can contribute to clinical work with children, emphasizing that psychoanalytic listening goes beyond the individuals who... (more)
Trans Teen Survival Guide
Frank, friendly and funny, Trans Teen Survival Guide will leave transgender and non-binary teens informed, empowered and armed with all the tips, confidence and practical advice they need to navigate... (more)
Real Parenting for Real Kids: Enabling Parents to Bring Out the Best in Their Children
The essential guide to bringing out the best in your children. The Parent Practice team, led by Melissa Hood and Elaine Halligan, have been delivering positive parenting courses since 2004 designed... (more)
Promoting Healthy Attachments: Hands-on Techniques to Use with Your Clients
Attachment theory is all the rage in therapy these days. But what does a therapist do with all the theory? This book presents successful attachment-oriented interventions for clinicians to use with... (more)
Thinking about Infants and Young Children
This book describes some of the important aspects of the development of infants and young children from birth to school age. It is illustrated by vignettes of scenes between parents and children and... (more)
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
Developmental Perspectives in Child Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy incorporates recent innovations in developmental theory and research into our understanding of the nature of change in child... (more)
The Boarding School Girls: Developmental and Cultural Narratives
They were children. Put on a train in a strange land, they waved goodbye to a parent as they headed to an educational institution that, unbeknownst to them, was to become their new home. Separated... (more)
The Cradle of Thought: Exploring the Origins of Thinking
The author refutes the notion that thinking is turned on by biologically pre-determined "modules" in the brain, but that it arises from the nature and quality of the relationship between parent and... (more)
Key Papers from the Journal of Child Psychotherapy
Papers previously not easily attainable are grouped thematically to cover the entire range of work represented in the journal, and presented in one volume accessible to students and professionals... (more)
Transgenderism and Intersexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
presents an overview of the research, clinical insights, and ethical dilemmas relevant to clinicians who treat intersex youth and their families. Exploring gender development from a cross-cultural... (more)
Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children: A Time-Limited Approach
Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) promotes clients' ability to interpret the meaning of others' behavior by considering their underlying mental states and intentions, as well as clients' capacity... (more)
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
A burgeoning evidence base supports that arts, play and other creative therapies have potential to help children in foster care, kinship care or adoptive families to recover from complex trauma.... (more)
What Every Parent Needs to Know: Second Edition
An essential read for any parent, Dr Sunderland's bestselling What Every Parent Needs To Know explains what science can teach us about parenting. Covering everything from breastfeeding to brain... (more)
The Developmental Science of Early Childhood: Clinical Applications of Infant Mental Health Concepts from Infancy Through Adolescence
The field commonly known as infant mental health integrates current research from developmental psychology, genetics and neuroscience to form a model of prevention, intervention and treatment well... (more)
Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression: Second Edition
Overcoming Teenage Low Mood and Depression: Second Edition, uses the trusted Five Areas model of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to help young people experiencing low mood or depression to help... (more)
Optimizing Learning Outcomes: Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Optimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental-health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today's schools. Chapters provide a wide... (more)
The Circle of Security Intervention: Enhancing Attachment in Early Parent-Child Relationships
Presenting both a theoretical foundation and proven strategies for helping caregivers become more attuned and responsive to their young children's emotional needs (ages 0-5), this is the first... (more)
Working with Traumatic Memories to Heal Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma: Neuroscience, Attachment Theory and Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor Psychotherapy
What potential does psychotherapy have for mediating the impact of childhood developmental trauma on adult life? Combining knowledge from trauma-focused work, understandings of the developmental... (more)
Narrative Therapies with Children and Their Families: A Practitioner's Guide to Concepts and Approaches: Second Edition
Narrative Therapies with Children and their Families introduces and develops the principles of narrative approaches to systemic therapeutic work, and shows how they can provide a powerful framework... (more)
Meeting the Needs of Parents Pregnant and Parenting After Perinatal Loss
Despite research which highlights parents' increased anxiety and risk of attachment issues with the pregnancy that follows a perinatal loss, there is often little understanding that bereaved families... (more)
Time-Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: An Interactive Approach
At a time when there is increasing concern about the escalation of child and adolescent mental health problems, Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents provides an... (more)
The Twin Enigma: An Exploration of Our Enduring Fascination with Twins
The book offers a unique in-depth understanding of the twin relationship, and the way in which twin development is affected by our attitudes to twins and our enduring fascination with them. It... (more)
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach: Third Edition
The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible resource for clinical... (more)
Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child
Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on ‘the object relation’... (more)