Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Therapy with Children: An Existential Perspective
This book explores the existential themes and challenges present in all therapeutic relationships when working with children. Existential ideas and concepts are a rapidly growing influence on the... (more)
Work Discussion: Learning from Reflective Practice in Work with Children and Families
'Work Discussion brings together a combination of close observation of, and personal and interpersonal responses to, the minutiae of the work setting and its dynamics, both internal and external.... (more)
Emotion-Regulating Play Therapy with ADHD Children: Staying with Playing
Drawing upon contemporary psychoanalytic thought, attachment theory, and the literature on children's emotional development, this book not only offers a novel conceptualization of ADHD but also a... (more)
Siblings in Development: A Psychoanalytic View
Siblings play an integral and essential part in our psychic development. Traditionally in psychoanalytic thinking, sibling relationships are regarded as secondary in developmental importance to the... (more)
The Child's Voice in Family Therapy: A Systemic Perspective
Presenting a wide range of practical interventions (including art therapy, video therapy, and play therapy), Carole Gammer provides a comprehensive set of tools to use with children who are part of a... (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)
Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1940 by C. G. Jung
In the 1930s C.G. Jung embarked upon a bold investigation into childhood dreams as remembered by adults to better understand their significance to the lives of the dreamers. Jung presented his... (more)
A Big and a Little One is Gone: Crisis Therapy with a Two-year-old Boy
This is a story from inside the child psychologist's room. Victor, who is two and a half years old, has lost his mother and younger brother in a car accident. He is 'sunny and happy' and does not... (more)
Understanding Your Young Child with Special Needs
Understanding Your Young Child with special needs" explores the developmental impact of disability on normal stages of child development, and examines the complex nature of the emotional bonds... (more)
Touchpoints: Birth to Three: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development: Second Revised Edition
Intended for anxious parents of babies and small children. This book introduces medical information, guidance for the new stresses on families and fears of children, and a fresh focus on the role of... (more)
The Family and Individual Development
The Family and Individual Development represents a decade of writing from a thinker who was at the peak of his powers as perhaps the leading post-war figure in developmental psychiatry. In these... (more)
Working with Anger and Young People
From attachment anxieties and feelings of powerlessness, to frustration at difficult family relations, this book considers the common reasons for young people's anger during this difficult stage of... (more)
The Neurobehavioral and Social-Emotional Development of Infants and Children
A major collection of writings from an internationally acclaimed researcher. Ed Tronick, who has been teaching at Harvard for twenty years, has authored some of the key studies in infant and child... (more)
Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger
How should we respond to a child's temper tantrum? To a teenager's sullen resentment? How can we help children and teens experience their anger without being overwhelmed by it? How can we deal with... (more)
Treating Parent-Infant Relationship Problems: Strategies for Intervention
Within a developmental framework, this book guides the clinician to understand the different types of problems that parents have with infants and to determine how a given family might best be served.... (more)
A Handbook of Play Therapy with Aggressive Children
This comprehensive compilation of specific and practical techniques is for child and play therapists to draw on in the treatment of aggressive children. The book is useful to new as well as seasoned... (more)
Young People and Crime: Improving Provisions for Children Who Offend
Young People and Crime is the fourth volume of the Winnicott Clinic Lecture Monograph Series, based on the 2005 lecture given by Rod Morgan and Sheila Hollins regarding the mental health of young... (more)
Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions
New in paperback. This book is the first synoptic rendering of Beebe's and Lachmann's impressive body of work. Therapists unfamiliar with current research findings will find here a comprehensive and... (more)
You and Your Child: Making Sense of Learning Disabilities
This volume looks at the physical, mental and emotional development of children with varying degrees of learning disabilities through tracing the development of six young adults from childhood. The... (more)
You and Your Baby
This volume is to help parents understand what their baby is likely to be feeling in the first year. It describes how the baby's sense of self develops, with intentionality, empathy and recognition... (more)
Infant Observation at the Heart of Training
The study of infant observation is widely used as part of training to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist; the skills learned through infant observation can be widely applied to practicing... (more)
Face to Face with Children: The Life and Work of Clare Winnicott
This book presents the life and work of one of the leading British social workers of the 20th century. The wife of Donald Winnicott, an analysand of Melanie Klein, a wartime innovator in helping... (more)
Infant and Toddler Mental Health: Models of Clinical Intervention
This work deals with the most common and important problems in infant psychopathology (problems with trauma, sleep, feeding, excessive crying, attachment disruptions and so on) and how to evaluate... (more)
Child Analysis Today
Although there have been many other important contributions to the field of child and adolescent analysis, the major differences in theory and approach still bear the hallmarks of three of the most... (more)
Infant-Parent Psychotherapy: A Handbook
This is a comprehensive handbook, full of vital information on the theory and practice of infant-parent psychotherapy, that will revolutionise the treatment of babies. It is essential reading for all... (more)
Exploring Feeding Difficulties in Children: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
Assessment in Child Psychotherapy
This book describes an approach to children and young people who might be helped by child psychotherapy. Attention is paid to factors within the child's personality, to strengths and impediments in... (more)
Adolescence and Psychoanalysis: The Story and the History
This collection of classic and contemporary essays makes a major contribution to the reassessment of psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of adults.
Contributors:
Peter Blos, Raymond...
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