Child Psychology category: 2885 books
Counseling Children and Adolescents
Working in School and Clinical Mental Health Settings
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Counseling Children and Adolescents gives students the information they need to prepare for work in both school and clinical mental health settings (two CACREP—Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs—specialty areas). This text includes not only content related...
Developing Resilience in Children and Young People
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Developing Resilience in Children and Young People: A Practical Guide is the first book to describe the work of professionals using the world’s first mentalisation-based mental health education program – Lundgaard’s Resilience Programme. Bringing together accounts from those working with children,...
Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Evidence-Based Practice for Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Schools often resort to ineffective, punitive interventions for the 10% of K-8 students whose challenging behavior interferes with their own and their classmates' learning. This book fills a crucial need by describing ways to provide meaningful supports to students with disruptive behavior disorders....
by R. D. Laing
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Originally published in 1969, based on the talks R. D. Laing gave in 1967 and 68, this book was intended by the author to evoke questions rather than provide answers. Using concepts of schizophrenia, R.D. Laing demonstrates that we tend to invalidate the subjective and experiential and accept the proper societal view of what should occur within the family.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterised by a person's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and their related compulsions. It affects an estimated one percent of teenagers and has been detected in children as young as three years old.
In this concise, accessible book experienced...
Doing Play Therapy
From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Covering the process of therapy from beginning to end, this engaging text helps students and practitioners use play confidently and effectively with children, adolescents, and adults struggling with emotional or behavioral problems or life challenges. With an accessible theory-to-practice focus, the...
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents
Settings, Treatments, and Diagnoses
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents is an essential, user-friendly guide for clinicians who wish to implement DBT for adolescents into their practices. The authors draw on current literature on DBT adaptation to provide detailed descriptions and sample group-therapy formats for a variety...
by Daniel A. Hughes, Kim S. Golding, Julie Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
From the founder of DDP, this updated and comprehensive guide is the authoritative text on DDP.
DDP is an attachment-focused treatment for children and adolescents who experience abuse and neglect and who are now living in stable foster and adoptive families. Its central interventions are influenced...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
How Animals Help Students Learn
Research and Practice for Educators and Mental-Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
How Animals Help Students Learn summarizes what we know about the impact of animals in education and synthesizes the thinking of prominent leaders in research and practice. It’s a much-needed resource for mental-health and education professionals interested in incorporating animals in school-based...
Sexploitation
Helping Kids Develop Healthy Sexuality in a Porn-Driven World
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
As surprising as it may be to parents, young people today are immersed in porn culture everywhere they look. Through Internet porn, gaming, social media, marketing, and advertising, kids today have a much broader view of social and sexual possibilities, which makes it difficult for them to establish...
by Eliana Gil, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
This classic volume, now completely revised, has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice. Eliana Gil demonstrates a broad range of verbal and nonverbal strategies for engaging all family members--including those who are ambivalent...
Bridging Worlds
Understanding and Facilitating Adolescent Recovery from the Trauma of Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
With Bridging Worlds, you will learn to uncover the roots of teenage problems – the causes behind symptoms such as self-destructiveness, anger, recklessness, and violence. Originally published in 1998, this title shows you how to develop treatment guidelines and thoughtful frames of reference that...
Nurturing Children
From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Nurturing Children describes children’s lives transformed through therapy.
Drawing on decades of experience, internationally respected clinician and trainer Graham Music tackles major issues affecting troubled children, including trauma, neglect, depression and violence. Using psychoanalysis...