Child and Adolescent Mental Health
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Adolescent Counselling Psychology
Theory, Research and Practice
Adolescent Counselling Psychology: Theory Research and Practice provides a thorough introduction to therapeutic practice with young people. As an edited text, it brings together some of the leading authorities on such work into one digestible volume. The text is divided into three major...
Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Children
A Guide for the Community Practitioner
This book aims to bridge the gap between child cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as practiced in academic centers and its use in community settings. Because CBT is considered the gold standard in the treatment of a variety of child mental health conditions and has been evaluated in numerous...
Published June 4th 2009 by Routledge
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Engaging Boys in Treatment
Creative Approaches to the Therapy Process
Series: The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men
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...
Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Childhood Disorders
Second Edition
Series: Clinical Psychology: A Modular Course
In this Revised Edition of Childhood Disorders, Philip C. Kendall and Jonathan S. Comer present current information about the full range of psychological disorders that occur in childhood, and discuss the major models that guide the thinking about each disorder. Specific criteria for diagnosis...
Published May 4th 2010 by Psychology Press
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Why Love Matters
How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain
Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. Sue Gerhardt considers how the...
Published June 23rd 2004 by Routledge
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Deciding Children's Futures
An Expert Guide to Assessments for Safeguarding and Promoting Children's Welfare in the Family Court
Deciding Children’s Futures addresses the thorny task of how to assess parents and children who belong to struggling families where there are issues of neglect or significant harm, and when separating parents are contesting arrangements for the care of their children. This is a practitioner’s guide...
Published October 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Out of the Mainstream: Helping the children of parents with a mental illness
Out of the Mainstream identifies those aspects of mental illness which can compromise parenting and affect children’s development, as well as the efforts of professionals to intervene effectively. With chapters from professionals working primarily with children or adults, in different agencies and...
Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Minding the Child
Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families
What is 'mentalization'? How can this concept be applied to clinical work with children, young people and families? What will help therapists working with children and families to 'keep the mind in mind'? Why does it matter if a parent can 'see themselves from the outside, and their child from...
Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Reading Anna Freud
Series: New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
What place do Anna Freud’s ideas have in the history of psychoanalysis? What can her writings teach us today about how to work therapeutically with children? Are her psychoanalytic ideas still relevant to those entrusted with the welfare of infants and young people? Reading Anna Freud...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Child Psychotherapy and Research
New Approaches, Emerging Findings
Child Psychotherapy and Research brings together some of the most exciting and innovative research activity taking place within psychoanalytic child psychotherapy today. Drawing on the expertise of an international range of contributors, this book describes work at the cutting edge of research in...
Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
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Infant Observation and Research
Emotional Processes in Everyday Lives
Psychoanalytic infant observation is frequently used in training psychoanalytic psychotherapists and allied professionals, but increasingly its value as a research method is being recognised, particularly in understanding developmental processes in vulnerable individuals and groups. This book...
Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
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The Origins, Prevention and Treatment of Infant Crying and Sleeping Problems
An Evidence-Based Guide for Healthcare Professionals and the Families They Support
Babies who cry a lot, or are unsettled in the night, are common sources of concern for parents and, consequently, costly problems for health services. In this book, Ian St James-Roberts summarises the evidence concerning infant crying and sleeping problems to provide a new evidence-based approach...
Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
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The Thinking Heart
Three levels of psychoanalytic therapy with disturbed children
How do we talk about feelings to children who are cut off from feeling? How do we raise hope and a sense of safety in despairing and terrified children without offering false hope? How do we reach the unreachable child and interest the hardened child? The Thinking Heart is a natural sequel to Live...
Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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Live Company
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children
Children whose minds as well as bodies have been damaged by the intrusions of sexual abuse, violence or neglect, and others, quite different, who are handicapped by their own mysterious sensitivities to more minor deprivations, may experience a type of black despair and cynicism that require...
Published July 1st 1992 by Routledge
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Winnicott's Children
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches With Children and Adolescents
Series: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Winnicott’s Children focuses on the use we make of the thinking and writing of DW Winnicott; how this has enhanced our understanding of children and the settings where we work, and how it has influenced the way in which we do that work. It is a volume by clinicians, concerned about how, as well as...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Through Assessment to Consultation
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Series: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Winnicott’s description of "doing something else" or "working as a psychoanalyst" when not engaged in the actual analysis of his patients resonates with the child psychotherapist today. Individual psychotherapy is certainly a valuable part of the work but much of the time the CPT is "doing...
Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
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A Question of Technique
Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
Series: Independent Psychoanalytic Approaches with Children and Adolescents
A Question of Technique focuses on what actually happens in the therapy room and on the technical decisions and pressures that are faced daily. Coming from the Independent tradition in British psychoanalysis, the contributors, a range of experienced practitioners and teachers, describe how their...
Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
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The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic Approaches, 2nd Edition
This updated edition of The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy reflects the many changes in the profession. It includes: additional chapters on neuroscience, work with ‘looked after children’ and with foster parents, working in schools enlarged chapters on research, attachment theory...
Published June 10th 2009 by Routledge
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Play: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development
Is play only a children’s activity? How is the spontaneous play of adults expressed? What is the difference between “play” and “game”? What function does play have during war? Play:Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Survival and Human Development explores the importance of play in the life of the...
To Be Published August 20th 2013 by Routledge
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Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
One Hundred Years After 'Little Hans'
Since Freud’s publication of 'Little Hans', advances in psychoanalytic technique and theory have transformed our clinical work with children. Individuals including Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Donald Winnicott have influenced psychoanalytic play therapy and broadened the scope of practice with...
Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Specialist Mental Healthcare for Children and Young People
Hospital and Community Intensive Services
A comprehensive range of services for young people requiring more intensive mental health services is being developed and this book explores what works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) at this level. Specialist Mental Healthcare for Children and Young People looks at intensive...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Thriving on the Front Lines
A Guide to Strengths-Based Youth Care Work
Despite the prevalence of Youth and Family Services, which are offered in every state and in many countries, there exists an absence of professional literature that addresses the needs and concerns of those workers on the “front lines.” This gap presents a concern for the current practitioner and...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The Child Survivor
Healing Developmental Trauma and Dissociation
The Child Survivor is a clinically rich, comprehensive overview of the treatment of children and adolescents who have developed dissociative symptoms in response to ongoing developmental trauma. Joyanna Silberg, a widely respected authority in the field, uses case examples to illustrate...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents
A Process-Oriented Guide for Therapists
Starting Treatment With Children and Adolescents provides therapists with a time-tested framework for treatment and a moment-by-moment guide to the first few sessions with a new patient. In twelve remarkable case studies, verbatim transcripts of individual play-therapy sessions are brought to life...
Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge