Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Somatic Methods for Affect Regulation: A Clinician's Guide to Healing Traumatized Youth
Somatic Methods for Affect Regulation is a unique resource that presents a variety of approaches for working somatically with youth. Chapters provide an overview of the relevant neuroscience research... (more)
Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Creative and Play-Based Approaches
Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers mental health professionals an integration of creative and playful approaches and solution-focused therapy. The author presents... (more)
OCD - Tools to Help Young People Fight Back!: A CBT Manual for Therapists
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects approximately one in a hundred young people, and often makes it difficult to lead happy and productive lives. This manual from the distinguished Maudsley... (more)
Re-thinking Children's Work in Churches: A Practical Guide
Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage... (more)
The Recovery Mama Guide to Your Eating Disorder Recovery in Pregnancy and Postpartum
This book offers friendly, realistic advice to support pregnant women and new mothers struggling with changing body image, eating disorders or postpartum depression. Self-care tips and recovery tools... (more)
A Practitioners Guide to Enhancing Parenting Skills
A Practitioner's Guide to Enhancing Parenting Skills: Assessment, Analysis and Intervention offers a detailed and stepwise approach to problem behaviour analysis and management, based on the... (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)
Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition
These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans... (more)
Creating Compassionate Kids: Essential Conversations to Have with Young Children
If you had to choose one word to describe the world you want children to grow up in, what would it be? Safe? Understanding? Resilient? Compassionate? As parents and caregivers of young... (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)
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Workout for Teens
This easy-to-understand, engaging guide arms teens with healthy thinking habits and coping strategies for staying on top of their mental health. Using tried and tested therapeutic techniques, readers... (more)
Appearance Anxiety: A Guide to Understanding Body Dysmorphic Disorder for Young People Families and Professionals
The first book for teens that explains the causes and impact of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The book is interspersed with accounts and artwork from young people with BDD, along with perspectives... (more)
Parenting Traumatized Children with Developmental Differences: Strategies to Help Your Childs Sensory Processing Language Development Executive Function and Challenging Behaviours
hildren who have encountered trauma early in life can experience real differences in their social and cognitive development. This comprehensive guide introduces what such developmental difference... (more)
Supporting Vulnerable Children in Early Years: Practical Guidance and Strategies for Working with Children at Risk
Exploring specific experiences, circumstances and events that can put children at risk, this book provides practical guidance for early years practitioners working with vulnerable children. It covers... (more)
Can I Tell You About Being a Young Carer?: A Guide for Friends Family and Professionals
Meet Carly. Carly is a young person caring for her mother who has Multiple Sclerosis and depression. Part of the best-selling Can I Tell You about... series this book raises awareness about children... (more)
Neon the Ninja Activity Book for Children who Struggle with Sleep and Nightmares: A Therapeutic Story with Creative Activities for Children Aged 5-10
Neon the Ninja has a very special job. He looks after anyone who finds the night time scary. Lots of us have nightmares, but Neon loves nothing more than using his special ninja powers to keep the... (more)
The Child's World, Third Edition: The Essential Guide to Assessing Vulnerable Children, Young People and Their Families
This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that... (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)
Working with High-Risk Adolescents: A Collaborative Strengths-Based Approach
This innovative book focuses on helping high-risk adolescents and their families rapidly resolve long-standing difficulties. Matthew D. Selekman spells out a range of solution-focused strategies and... (more)
Treating OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
From foremost experts, this authoritative work offers a framework for helping children overcome obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) using the proven techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).... (more)
Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents: Theory and Practice
Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents provides principles for effective use of different arts-based approaches in adolescent group therapy, grounding these principles in neuroscience and... (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)
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)
Love the Wild Swan: The selected works of Judith Edwards
Love the Wild Swan is the culmination of thirty years of clinical and teaching experience, undertaken by child and adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapist Judith Edwards. Along with new material,... (more)
Not Just a Tomboy: A Trans Masculine Memoir
Caspar Baldwin uses his experiences to open up wider debates about how we impose gender on children, what cis people don't understand about the transition process, and how to thrive as a trans... (more)
Emily Is Being Bullied What Can She Do?: A Story and Anti-Bullying Guide for Children and Adults to Read Together
Meet Emily. She is being bullied by a group of children at school. She describes how this makes her feel, think and act. Eventually, she finds ways to help herself and also realises that she can get... (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)
CBT Doodling for Kids: 50 Illustrated Handouts to Help Build Confidence and Emotional Resilience in Children Aged 6–11
Using creative therapy techniques developed through years of working with young children, this activity book will be an invaluable resource for professionals working with children aged 6-11. Unique... (more)
Improving the Psychological Wellbeing of Children and Young People: Effective Prevention and Early Intervention Across Health Education and Social Care
Written for professionals spanning children's services, this must-read guide provides an authoritative overview of what shapes the psychological wellbeing of children and young people - from... (more)