Children and Adolescents
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Nurturing Children: From Trauma to Growth Using Attachment Theory, Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology
Our Price: $27.31 (with free worldwide delivery)
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. This title is due to be published on the 16th January 2019. You can if you wish order it now at our special pre-publication price and we will deliver it to you as soon as it becomes available.
The Simple Guide to Understanding Shame in Children: What it is, What Helps and How to Prevent Further Stress or Trauma
Our Price: $10.15 (with free worldwide delivery)
Betsy de Thierry navigates the need to understand its impact and the reasons behind it, as well as how to reduce its hold on self-confidence. Reassuring advice will also help revitalize adults’ abilities to face the challenges of supporting children affected by shame. It will teach them how to restore self-esteem.
The Simple Guide to Understanding Shame in Children: What it is and How to Help
Our Price: $10.15 (with free worldwide delivery)
* What is shame? * How does it affect children? * How can adults help? The perfect starting point for any adult or carer working with children who have experienced shame, this guide provides straightforward answers and explanations to both common and complex questions.
Recommended Titles
Recommended titles by experts in the field.
The Handbook of Counselling Children & Young People
Our Price: $36.82 (with free worldwide delivery)
Expert authors from a wide range of backgrounds bring together the fundamentals of counselling practice with children and young people in this landmark handbook. It covers all your students need to know about theory and practice approaches, the counselling process, and practice issues and settings.
The Mermaid Who Couldn’t: How Mariana Overcame Loneliness and Shame and Learned to Sing Her Own Song!
Our Price: $12.07 (with free worldwide delivery)
Written for children aged 4+, this picture book uses a simple metaphor to show how children who have experienced neglect or who lack confidence can learn to find a sense of self-worth. It will help children explore their feelings and encourage communication.
The Essentials of Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Schools: On being a Specialist Mental Health Lead in schools
Our Price: $22.23 (with free worldwide delivery)
The book is targeted at all practitioners in the helping and enabling professions working with children and young people, especially teachers, and is essential reading for anyone undertaking training where elements of psychotherapy and counselling are requisite to practice.
Fun Games and Physical Activities to Help Heal Children Who Hurt: Get On Your Feet!
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Develop children’s brains and bonds with this collection of no-tech, physical games, strategies and activities. Ideal for children who have experienced neglect, abuse and trauma, these “real-world” experiences draw on therapeutic, trauma-focused-care play principles and promote positive attachment between child and caregivers.
Counselling Children: A Practical Introduction (5th Edition)
Our Price: $31.74 (with free worldwide delivery)
The Clinician’s Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Our Price: $81.27 (with free worldwide delivery)
The Clinician’s Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder brings together a wealth of experts on pediatric and adolescent OCD, providing novel cognitive behavioral strategies and considerations that therapists can immediately put into practice. The book provides case studies and example metaphors on how to explain exposure models to children in a developmentally appropriate manner.
Engaging Infants: Embodied Communication in Short-Term Infant-Parent Therapy
Our Price: $29.13 (with free worldwide delivery)
The book begins by describing, within a psychodynamic approach, some traits an infant may bring to an intervention, followed by descriptions of interventions in several specialised perinatal settings.
Innovative Therapeutic Life Story Work: Developing Trauma-Informed Practice for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Our Price: $27.93 (with free worldwide delivery)
Life story work is an approach designed to enable traumatized children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future by strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing.
Helping Babies and Children Aged 0-6 to Heal After Family Violence: A Practical Guide to Infant- and Child-Led Work
Our Price: $21.21 (with free worldwide delivery)
Dr. Wendy Bunston’s guide is here to help you to meet the emotional needs of children who are experiencing trauma, and to enable them to form healthy attachments, both within their families and beyond.
Creative Play with Children at Risk (2nd edition)
Our Price: $41.90 (with free worldwide delivery)
This second edition is fully updated with the latest good practice in play. Based on an understanding of ‘Neuro-Dramatic-Play’, the book shows that play is an essential part of children’s healthy development and many children ‘at risk’ are those who are unable to play. It includes work with children with learning difficulties as well as those with developmental delay.
Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk (2nd edition)
Our Price: $41.90 (with free worldwide delivery)
This second edition is fully updated and addresses ways in which we can apply stories and storytelling with children who are troubled. Stories can empower children to take action and ask for help, including help with changes and life-plans
Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Big Feelings: A Therapist’s Guide to Working with Preschool and Primary Children
Our Price: $22.09 (with free worldwide delivery)
This practical guide provides clinicians with a way in which to do so, with numerous games and imaginative activities to help children aged 4-12 to express and understand their feelings.
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption
Our Price: $22.85 (with free worldwide delivery)
Written by contributors working at the cutting edge of delivering effective therapeutic interventions, this innovative book describes models for working with children in foster care, kinship care or adoption. Covering how to assess needs and contextual considerations for working with children and families, this book presents a range of creative therapeutic approaches spanning art psychotherapy, music therapy and dance therapy.
Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy
Our Price: $29.20 (with free worldwide delivery)
Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy explores the professional and legal boundaries around physical contact in therapy and offers best-practice guidelines from a variety of perspectives.
All Birds Have Anxiety
Our Price: $12.07 (with free worldwide delivery)
All Birds Have Anxiety uses colourful images and astute explanations to explore with gentle humour what it means to live with anxiety day-to-day, and how to begin to deal with it.
When There Are No Words: Repairing Early Trauma and Neglect From the Attachment Period With EMDR Therapy
Our Price: $34.28 (with free worldwide delivery)
This book, intended for clinicians treating very early trauma and neglect in the attachment period, integrates several treatment strategies in a comprehensive and resonant approach that is attuned to the client’s unspoken early experience. Although the book presumes EMDR training, it has considerable application for other clinicians who deal with the pernicious effects of early trauma and neglect in the attachment period.
101 Mindful Arts-Based Activities to Get Children and Adolescents Talking
Our Price: $19.04 (with free worldwide delivery)
This book offers a compendium of therapeutic activities that will help children who have endured painful abuse to open up, so that they can learn to express their feelings and therapy can be directed towards their individual needs.
Trauma-Focused CBT for Children and Adolescents: Treatment Applications
Our Price: $24.12 (with free worldwide delivery)
Featuring a wealth of clinical examples, this book facilitates implementation of trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) in a range of contexts.
Art Therapy in the Early Years: Therapeutic Interventions with Infants, Toddlers and Their Families
Our Price: $38.09 (with free worldwide delivery)
With contributions from Australia, the United Kingdom and Spain, Art Therapy in the Early Years has an international flavour. The authors describe clinical art psychotherapy practice with children under five and their families in settings that include children in care, mental health clinics, paediatric wards, pre-schools, and early intervention programs.
Nurturing Natures: Attachment and Children’s Emotional, Sociocultural and Brain Development
Our Price: $36.56 (with free worldwide delivery)
This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children’s emotional development. Integrating a wealth of both up-to-date and classical research from areas such as attachment theory, neuroscience developmental psychology and cross-cultural studies.
William Wobbly and the Very Bad Day: A story about when feelings become too big
Our Price: $10.15 (with free worldwide delivery)
Written by a mum who understands, and her daughter (who used to have a lot of wobbly feelings), this is a story for children functioning at age 3-10 who struggle with sensory overload.