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Infant and Toddler Mental Health: Models of Clinical Intervention with Infants and Their Families
J. Martin Maldonado-Duran
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2002
Countless studies have demonstrated the power of early intervention to permanently alter the course of a child’s life. Yet—heightened by the past decade’s research breakthroughs in genetics—the nature versus nurture controversy rages on. This volume dispels some of the persistent myths surrounding this controversy. Unlike largely theoretical texts that describe infant behavioral and emotional ...
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Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of ...
Rosalind Wiseman
Three Rivers Press, 2002
Enlightening for Dad
+ Great Insight Into Girl Bullying
+ A must read!
+ Almost, But Not Quite. NOT Recommended for Parents of Fat Girls
+ Sugar and Spice? More like Napalm and Hot Sauce!
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Play Therapy with Adolescents
Loretta Gallo-Lopez, Charles E. Schaefer
Jason Aronson, 2005
Adolescents are often resistant, hostile, moody, and difficult, but they can also be fascinating, creative, spontaneous, and passionate. How do mental health professionals get past the facade? Play Therapy with Adolescents is the first book to offer a complete variety of play therapy approaches specifically geared toward adolescents. The chapters, written by experts in the field, offer readers ...
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Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs for Children and Adolescents
Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, 2004
Quick and Precise
Once Kalyna et. al bring us a great quick reference book. This is the second edition of the Clinical handbook of psychotropic drugs for children and adolescents and it keeps the same up to date information on all the psychotropics used in this population.
This handbook is a "must have" book for ...
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OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Manual
John S. March, Karen Mulle
The Guilford Press, 1998
A must have treatment manual
+ Great resource
+ My son conquered his OCD with help from this book
John March is author of one of the best treatment manuals I have ever laid my eyes on. He and Mulle have laid out in very clear fashion what steps to follow in treating OCD in a child or adolescent. They add tips on what to do when problems arise and include gems of clinical knowledge that make ...
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Doing Psychotherapy
Michael Franz Basch
Basic Books, 1980
understanding psychotherapy
+ Get This Book
+ Review of Doing Psychotherapy by Basch
I have read and reread this book. If you are in therapy or or thinking of therapy it is absolutly the best book to read. Any confusion about your own therapy will be mentioned in some way in this book. It helps to clear your own mind and look at yourself in a productive way, realising that no ...
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The Clinical Interview of the Child
Stanley I. Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2003
Psychodynamic only
This book will be good if you are interested in psychodynamic, unstructured interview technique and assessment. If your orientation is towards another counseling theory, this book will be less useful.
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Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy
Karl Heinz Brisch
The Guilford Press, 2004
ATTACHMENT & DETACHMENT DISORDERS FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
+ Best book on the subject
I strongly recommend this book for anyone seeking to find help with troubling relationship issues and learning more about relationship attachment and detachment. Other related topics are, identity issues, self-esteem issues, addictions, mood disorders and reoccurring unresolved anger. Excellent ...
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents
Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus, ...
The Guilford Press, 2006
A must have
+ Very Pleased
This book is wonderful when working within the DBT model with teenaged clients. It addressed issues specific to the adolescent population.
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Skills Training for Children with Behavior Problems, Revised Edition: A Parent and Practitioner Guidebook
Michael L. Bloomquist
The Guilford Press, 2005
review of book for child behavioral problems
+ Really helpfull
+ Using this book in Practice
This book has been a godsend to my family. My daughter (14) has had learning disabilities along with ADD. She had lost her confidence in herself because schoolwork and homework seemed so hard. She began to just plain old not do it. The methods and practical methods in this booke have given her ...
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Foundations of Play Therapy
Wiley, 2003
Play Therapy
+ Book Review
+ Excellent Resource
This book is a good one to pick up for anyone who is either in training to become or is a therapist looking to continue their education in the area. My area of focus is not in children, however, as many of us know you inevitably do some types of family work over the course of your career. This book ...
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A Clinician's Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Great buy
A great comprehensive guide. Reader friendly. Treatment approaches are comprehensive backed up by the latest evidence.
They even discussed the length of treatment recommended something that has been somewhat neglected in other sources.
If it had Q&A I would have given it a 5 otherwise it should ...
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101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques (Child Therapy Series)
Heidi Kaduson
Jason Aronson, 1997
Packed with creative play therapy techniques
+ Good to have on hand
+ A great resource for practitioners
A wonderful resource for therapists seeking new and creative techniques. The book includes therapeutic games, art, stories, and other techniques developed by play therapists from across North America. The one drawback--it would be helpful to have a theoretical overview of play therapy at the ...
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depressed Adolescents, Second Edition
Laura Mufson, Kristen Pollack Dorta, ...
The Guilford Press, 2004
A good resource.
This book is helpful for any practitioner working with adolescents who struggle with depression. Beginners can learn how to structure their therapy sessions, and advanced practitioners who have less experience with adolescents can learn to adapt their existing style to a new patient population. ...
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Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition: Preparing People for Change
William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick
The Guilford Press, 2002
Motivated
+ Very Satified
+ comprehensive
+ Learning MI
+ Extremely fast shipping
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