Children and Adolescents

Doodle Your Worries Away: A CBT Doodling Workbook for Children Who Feel Worried or Anxious
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Drawn from over 15 years of experience of supporting young people with anxiety, this workbook takes an integrative approach and is a valuable resource for anyone looking to support a child experiencing worry.

A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People: Ways to Release the Imprisoned Self
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This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering.

The Greater Me Cards: A Tool for Children and Young People to Develop Self-Advocacy Skills and Build Resilience
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This conversational tool made up of 52 cards and accompanying guidance, helps young people build their advocacy skills by establishing their own strengths and needs.

From Trauma to Harming Others: Therapeutic Work with Delinquent, Violent and Sexually Harmful Children and Young People
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From Trauma to Harming Others shows the approach of professionals from the world-renowned Portman Clinic, which specializes in work with violence, delinquency and sexual acting out.

Mentalizing in Child Therapy: Guidelines for Clinical Practitioners (New 2nd Edition)
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Featuring guidelines for clinical practitioners, this book is important for the clinical training of child psychotherapists, as well as for professional child psychiatrists, child psychologists and other therapists working with four to 12-year-old children experiencing significant developmental problems with mentalizing.

How it Feels to be You: Objects, Play and Child Psychotherapy
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Through the stories of individual children, this book will illuminate the process of creative, play-based child psychotherapy. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue that brings a child or a young person to the therapy room, and explores the use and meaning of particular objects and ‘object games’. Readers will gain a profound understanding through these dynamic stories of therapy channeled through the objects the children choose to bring into play.

Key Theories and Skills in Counselling Children and Young People: An Integrative Approach
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This book provides a highly accessible, skills focused entry point to the interventions, techniques, strategies, and core knowledge you need to work with children and young people.

Gender Dysphoria: A Therapeutic Model for Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
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This book is aimed primarily at clinicians working in the field to provide a model for understanding, assessing, and treating gender dysphoria. The model uses a psychoanalytic framework to help explain disturbed states of mind and how psychic defences can be enlisted unconsciously to avoid overwhelming psychic pain. This offers professionals a way of trying to think with, and offer understanding to, their trans identifying clients.

Child to Parent Aggression and Violence: A Guidebook for Parents and Practitioners
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Parent-directed aggression and violence by children is a complex issue and may not be explained by focusing upon a single factor. The affected parents tend to delay seeking help from professionals due to not knowing where to seek help or even an inability to identify their experiences as a problem. This book provides parents and professionals with the much-needed information to tackle this incidence.

Clinical Applications of the Therapeutic Powers of Play: Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
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Clinical Applications of the Therapeutic Powers of Play provides a way to link abstract theory with practice-based knowledge and vice versa, navigating the complexities of clinical reasoning associated with age-sensitive, and most often non-verbal psychotherapies.

Finding the Piggle: Reconsidering D. W. Winnicott’s Most Famous Child Case
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Finding The Piggle gives new life to this classic piece of psychoanalytic literature in which the importance of the child’s feelings and conflicts is made abundantly clear. With this comprehensive exploration, a new generation of clinicians and others can rediscover this important case and think about it anew.

Counseling Children and Adolescents: Cultivating Empathic Connection
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Counseling Children and Adolescents focuses on relationship building and creating a deep level of understanding of developmental, attachment, and brain-based information.

Understanding Children’s Worry: Clinical, Developmental and Cognitive Psychological Perspectives
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This accessible guide offers a concise introduction to the science behind worry in children, summarising research from across psychology to explore the role of worry in a range of circumstances, from everyday worries to those that can seriously impact children’s lives.

Creative Ways to Help Children Manage Anxiety: Ideas and Activities for Working Therapeutically with Worried Children and Their Families
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This book sets out therapeutic activities to help children aged 4-12 years and their families to better understand and manage anxiety.

Functional Somatic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: A Stress-System Approach to Assessment and Treatment
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This open access book sets out the stress-system model for functional somatic symptoms in children and adolescents.

The Girl Who Lost the Light in Her Eyes: A Storybook to Support Children and Young People Who Experience Loss
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This beautifully illustrated and sensitively written storybook has been created to be used therapeutically with children experiencing loss. It has been produced to accompany the title ‘Using the Expressive Arts with Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Loss’ shown above.

Schema Therapy With Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner’s Guide
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The first book to adapt schema therapy for children and adolescents – presents the ST-CA model and provides a clear, practical guide to clinical implementation

Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs: 20 Skills to Build Resilience
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This new edition of Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs provides detailed descriptions of techniques, ample case studies, fascinating and easy to understand explanations of research, and rich stories of how social workers, psychologists, counselors, child and youth care workers, and other mental health professionals can help young people become more resilient.

Parent-Infant Psychotherapy for Sleep Problems: Through the Night
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This book describes Dilys Daws’ pioneering method of therapy for sleep problems, honed over forty years of work with families: brief psychoanalytic therapy with parents and infants together.

Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing, and Attachment
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Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents introduces the foundations for SMART, including somatic regulation, arousal regulation, attachment building, and trauma processing. It teaches therapists the 8 key skills required for SMART mastery, and provides 8 regulation tools for clients. Enriched with case studies and recommended adaptations, it also includes resources for parents or other caregivers who want to provide ongoing supportive care outside the clinical setting.

Reflective Practice in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Listening to Young People
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Based on the author’s work with children, young people and families over two decades, this book shares reflections from the therapy room and illustrates how the therapist can try to make sense of mood, behaviour and presentations that previously made no sense. The content relies heavily on clinical experience as well as drawing on classical and contemporary psychotherapeutic literature.

Binnie the Baboon Anxiety and Stress Activity Book: A Therapeutic Story with Creative and CBT Activities To Help Children Aged 5-10 Who Worry
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This activity book is a colourful illustrated therapeutic story about Binnie the Baboon, with a focus on worry and anxiety.

Counselling Adolescents: The Proactive Approach for Young People
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With over 4 hours of online resources, this multi-disciplinary book uses case studies and examples to demonstrate how a diversity of needs requires a diversity of approaches and skills through a variety of settings. It is essential reading for trainees and practitioners in counselling, social work, the allied health professions and education.