Child and Adolescent Studies Books
Waterbugs and dragonflies: Explaining death to young children
This book uses the analogy of the waterbugs' short life under water as human's time on earth and their emergence as dragonflies into the bright sunlit world above the water as human's life after... (more)
No-Talk Therapy for Children and Adolescents:
For children whose only language is not talking, therapists need a language that doesn't depend on words. This book offers an innovative approach to treatment of clients who won't or can't respond to... (more)
Joint attention: Its origins and role in development
This volume explores how joint attention first arises, its developmental course, its role in communication and social understanding, and the ways in which disruptions in joint attention may be... (more)
Child sexual abusers: A community treatment approach
Child sexual abuse has been the subject of professional and public interest. This text provides a knowledge-base for understanding child sexual abusers, which is focused on practice but rooted in... (more)
Models of cognitive development:
Beginning with the premise that there are many different models of what knowledge and reasoning are, and of how they develop, this text aims to provide theoretical convergence towards a generally... (more)
The abused child: Psychodynamic understanding and treatment
Capturing the complexities of working with abused children, this text traces the interplay of neurobiological and psychological facets of behaviour, to show how abuse de-rails normal development and... (more)
Emotional development in young children:
The ability to express, understand and regulate emotions is a crucial element in individual functioning and interpersonal interaction. This volume looks at early child development by exploring the... (more)
Becoming Anna
A sixteen-year-old writes powerfully about the physical and mental abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents and grandmother. 256 pages. (more)
Unspeakable Acts
Victims, survivors, and their supporters want to know how and why people can sexually assault and terrorise children who love and trust them. This book provides a vivid and reliable answer and is an... (more)
Counselling children with chronic medical conditions:
A practical manual of counselling skills for working with children with chronic medical and physical conditions. The book explores the child's understanding of their body and illness, how to... (more)
Typical and atypical development: From Conception to Adolescence
This is a reference work on child development up to the age of eight years. Covering the main features of physiology, cognitive, emotional, and language development in normal children, using an... (more)
The Continuum Concept
The "continuum" is the whole of our environment, from family to society to species. Liedloff's encounters with South American Indians lead her to redefine western people's relationship to their... (more)
Effective intervention in primary schools: Nurture groups
This work shows how primary schools can cost-effectively enable children from damaging backgrounds to have real access to a full curriculum through 'nurture groups'. It draws on experience of these... (more)
Multiaxial classification of child and adolescent psychiatric disorder: The ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents
By regulating the order and number of conditions to be recorded in the treatment of a psychiatric patient, ICD-10 - a multiaxial framework - provides for internationally comparable descriptions of... (more)
Cognition in children:
This textbook aims to provide a selective, but representative, review of work in cognitive development, grouped around themes that are familiar from textbooks of adult cognition. The book focuses on... (more)
Psychology, Discourse and Social Practice: From Regulation to Resistance
Written by expert practitioner-researchers, this co-authoured book explores how psychology legislates on normality and then uses its 'expert' knowledge to turn social marginalism into pathology. 208... (more)
Uncommon understanding: Development and disorders of language comprehension in children
This work focuses on children with specific language impairments within the context of language comprehension, but also examines normal development. It provides a research and theory framework that... (more)
Minefields in their hearts: The mental health of children in war and communal violence
Events such as the Holocaust and civil war in Bosnia pose special problems for those helping children make sense of acts that endanger them physically and psychically. In this text, two mental health... (more)
Child welfare 1872-1989:
This work is concerned with the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children. 372 pages.
Solution Focused Thinking in Schools
This book provides simple methods and ideas for finding solutions to problems in a school context, such as classroom disruption or helping a child begin to read after years of failing to progress.... (more)
Adolescence: Guiding youth through the perilous ordeal
This work presents a framework for adolescence as a developmental period, and surveys current concepts and research. It covers normal neurological, physical and reproductive development, and provides... (more)