Child and Adolescent Studies Books
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)
Cycles of child maltreatment: Facts, fallacies and interventions
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)
Culture and the child: A guide for professionals in child care and development
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)
The child in question
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)
I'm Only Bleeding: Education as the practice of social violence agains
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)
Children in distress: A guide for screening children's art
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.
The dilemma of ritual abuse: cautions and guides for therapists
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)
Confident Children: Help Children Feel Good About Themselves
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)
Love and Hate in the Nursery and Beyond: Voices from the Unconscious
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)
Principles of Child Psychotherapy
A discussion of the possible therapeutic moves and options in child psychotherapy, in which the author advocates a commonsense approach, encouraging the reader to fit treatment plans to patients,... (more)
Growing up sad: Childhood depression and its treatment
This analysis of childhood depression explores the interplay of environment and genetics, showing how psychological reactions may translate into biochemical changes which form the core of depressive... (more)
Separation-Individuation: The Selected Papers of Margaret S. Mahler, Vol.2
More of the collected papers of this influential American psychoanalyst. They provide an exposition of the development of Mahler's essential concepts.
Armfuls of time: The psychological experience of the child with a life-threatening illness
This text describes the work with, and psychological experience of, those children who are diagnosed as terminally ill. It makes extensive use of case studies - incorporating the words of children -... (more)