Child & Developmental Psychology

What is the meaning of time? Do we have an internal clock? Can time speed up or slow down?The Psychology of Time considers how we define, describe,...

Many children with mental health problems do not receive support and there are often extensive waiting lists for Children and Young People's Mental...

This book explores the dynamic and often fragile world of premature babies, their families, and those who look after them. Each chapter provides th...

The Mother and Her Child: Clinical Aspects of Attachment, Separation, and Loss, edited by Salman Akhtar, focuses upon the formation of an individua...

This book introduces the concept of the Person One Could Have Become and shows the importance of mourning for individuals with traumatic experience...

Clinicians working with traumatized youth face many challenges in supporting growth and development while addressing the many negative consequences...

There are approximately 7 billion people in the world, and 2 billion of them are children. Children are the last unheard minority, a group whose vo...

Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal Through the Art of Play is for the mental health pro...

Paradox for Life Review explains how older adults' levels of self-esteem become the lens through which they review their reminiscences. It shows ho...

The book takes the reader into the trenches with the author as he describes his psychoanalytic work with a variety of patients with difficult and c...

This is the first therapy book that focuses on clinical work with youth who construct queer identities (as differentiated from essentialized gay or...

Genome Editing for Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Concept to Clinical Trials examines recent advances in neurodegenerative disease research and c...

This book explores children's mental health and wellbeing issues using a developmental systems perspective that is grounded on established theoreti...

What physical and psychological changes can I expect when going through the menopause? How can I protect my wellbeing during menopause? How can I e...

What physical and psychological changes can I expect when going through the menopause? How can I protect my wellbeing during menopause? How can I e...

Beautifully illustrated, this important storybook encourages young school children to understand and talk openly about their feelings.Lets join Jes...

Are we born selfish or primed to help others?Does stress make people more antisocial?Can we ever be genuinely altruistic?This book explores some of...

Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children. The book first attempts to define the problem of ...

Play Therapy and Asperger's Syndrome: Helping Children and Adolescents Grow, Connect, and Heal Through the Art of Play is for the mental health pro...

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis is written by practicing child psychoanalysts with extensive experience treating childre...

Clinical Applications of Psychoanalytic Theory provides in-depth descriptions of past and present analytic concepts, with accompanying examples of ...

This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with childr...

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills...

Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing agg...

Brain, Mind, and Developmental Psychopathology in Childhood, part of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Pr...

With the push toward accountability and test performance in schools there has been a decline in emphasis on creativity, imagination, and feelings i...

Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting peoples social exchanges than has been available in the past. The book is replete w...

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that death anxiety is responsible fo...

Play Therapy and Families: A Collaborative Approach to Healing provides a thorough description of play from prominent academics, researchers, and r...

The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of...

Homeless women and their children who reside in a transitional housing facility or shelter have experienced multiple traumas and disruptions in the...

This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other...

In the past twenty-five years, the practice of play therapy has increased exponentially in America and throughout the world. This handbook brings t...

The Long Shadow of Sexual Abuse: Developmental Effects across the Life Cycle has one simple purposeto describe the profound interferences with norm...

Separated into seven categories for easy reference, the techniques within each chapter are applied to practice situations in a concise format for e...

Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do men...

This is an easy-to-use reference to the most effective play therapy techniques and their substantiated results. Play therapy is not an approach bas...

Hostile, destructive kids become hostile destructive adults and create serious problems for society. Handling Children's Aggression Constructively:...

Theraplay is a form of structured play therapy designed to strengthen the attachment between parents and their child. Dr. Evangeline Munns, a Thera...

This book focuses on the role that siblings play in each other's development, on the ways in which they may enrich or cast a shadow over each other...

Taming Aggression in Your Child: How to Avoid Raising Bullies, Delinquents, or Trouble-Makers is a guide to preventing children from developing agg...

Brain, Mind, and Developmental Psychopathology in Childhood, part of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Pr...

Attachment Parenting describes a comprehensive approach to parenting children who have a history of neglect, abuse, orphanage care, or other experi...

In this volume, Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud aim to contribute to advancing awareness of child and adolescent mental health within an i...