Child Psychology category: 2885 books
by Cathy A. Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
This practical resource demonstrates how all clinicians can broaden and enhance their work with children by integrating drawing into therapy. The book enables therapists to address the multidimensional aspects of children's art without resorting to simplistic explanations. Approaching drawing as a...
Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Designed for mental health professionals treating children and adolescents, Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice is a simple but powerful primer for understanding and successfully implementing the most critical elements of neuroscience into...
Engaging Boys in Treatment
Creative Approaches to the Therapy Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Traditional therapy can often be an off-putting experience for boys as it is in direct opposition to the ways they generally interact and connect with others. This book explores a variety of creative approaches that professionals can use to enhance the clinical experience and better reach their young...
Working with Children to Heal Interpersonal Trauma
The Power of Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Featuring in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what posttraumatic play looks like and how it can foster resilience and coping. Demonstrated are applications...
Children of Alcoholism
The Struggle for Self and Intimacy in Adult Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
In this sensitive and richly rewarding book Barbara L. Wood, a clinician with many years' experience working with adult children of the chemically dependent, gives clinicians informed and practical advice on how to treat the damaged self of these individuals. She offers strategies for intervention,...
Losing Tim
How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Paul Gionfriddo's son Tim is one of the "6 percent"—an American with serious mental illness. He is also one of the half million homeless people with serious mental illnesses in desperate need of help yet underserved or ignored by our health and social-service systems.
In this moving,...
by Anna Chesner, Sheila Ryan, Jane Read
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
This is a book that unashamedly brings love, spirit and soul into the heart of the supervision process but does so without becoming sanctimonious or precious. We see this through the various heart-felt experiences and stories of the different helping professionals that Robin Shohet has brought together'
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Encounters with John Bowlby
Tales of Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Encounters with John Bowlby: Tales of Attachment is an insightful, heartfelt and faithful homage to John Bowlby (1907-1990), the ‘father’ of attachment theory. The book unfolds as a touching and absorbing biographical journey into his life and work, where Bowlby is portrayed vividly through his...
Treating Co-occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents with Trauma and Substance-Abuse Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Research has shown that, for many teens, trauma can lead to addiction. Now, for the first time ever, two mental health experts offer a powerful, integrative program to effectively treat teens with these co-occurring issues.
Trauma and addiction often present side by side. However, up until...
by William Steele, Cathy A. Malchiodi
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents is a sourcebook of practical approaches to working with children and adolescents that synthesizes research from leading trauma specialists and translates it into easy-to-implement techniques. The approaches laid out address the sensory and somatic...
by Scott W. Henggeler, PhD, Sonja K. Schoenwald
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Multisystemic therapy (MST) has grown dramatically since the initial publication of this comprehensive manual. Today, over 400 MST programs operate in more than 30 states and 10 countries, supported by a strong empirical evidence base. This book explains the principles of MST and provides clear guidelines...
Adolescent Violence in the Home
Restorative Approaches to Building Healthy, Respectful Family Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Adolescent Violence in the Home examines a form of violence that has a profound impact on families but is often overlooked and frequently misunderstood: teen aggression and violence toward members of their family—especially parents. Violence in adolescents is often seen as the result of a mental-health...
Brief Coaching with Children and Young People
A Solution Focused Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Brief Coaching with Children and Young People: A Solution Focused approach is the first book of its type to describe the thinking and practice of Solution Focused coaching with these age groups.
The approach empowers young people to find their own solutions in the shortest possible time, focusing...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
In the 1950s Robert Coles began studying, living among, and, above all, listening to American children. The results of his efforts--revealed in five volumes published between 1967 and 1977--constitute one of the most searching and vigorous social studies ever undertaken by one person in the United...