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)
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)
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" 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
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)
Focusing on physical abuse, neglect and emotional abuse, this book examines the facts and the fallacies surrounding the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment. It takes as its central... (more)
A practical guide for those professionals dealing with children whose cultural backgrounds differ from those of the mainstream society in which they live. The central theme of this book is the role... (more)
Drawing on personal, historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, literary and artistic sources, this compelling book explores the tensions and contradictions implicit in notions of children and... (more)
An examination of the violence that education presently practices on children. Using a paradigm steeped in object relations theory, psychoanalytic practice and recent research in neuroscience, the... (more)
The authors have developed a method of using art to communicate with children who have been traumatised, and who cannot talk about their experiences. 144 pages.
This text offers balanced advice on approaches therapists can use when patients or clients report they have experienced ritual abuse. Chapters deal with psychological and pharmacological treatment... (more)
In our increasingly competitive world, personal confidence is a prerequisite for success and confident children with a positive outlook have a much better chance to grow into successful,... (more)
Eisenbud probes issues around the Oedipus complex - expressions of infantile horror for the breast, ambivalence toward the mother from dependence on her and terrors of abandonment. She then describes... (more)