Child and Adolescent Mental Health Arena

The Thinking Heart

Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Therapy with Disturbed Children

• By Anne Alvarez.

Published April 2012

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…
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Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors

A Clinician’s Guide

• By Lisa Ferentz.

Published March 2012

This is a book for clinicians who specialize in helping trauma survivors and, through the course of treatment, find themselves unexpectedly confronted with client disclosures of self-destructive behaviors, including self-mutilation and other manifestations of deliberately "hurting the body" such as…
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Minding the Child

Mentalization-Based Interventions with Children, Young People and their Families

• Edited by Nick Midgley, and Ioanna Vrouva.

Published March 2012

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…
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Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders

• Edited by Loretta Gallo-Lopez, and Lawrence C. Rubin.

Published February 2012

Play-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders explores the most recognized, researched, and practical methods for using play therapy with the increasing number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs), and shows clincians how to integrate…
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Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents

• By William Steele, and Cathy A. Malchiodi.

Published October 2011

Trauma-Informed Practices With Children and Adolescents is a sourcebook of practical approaches to working with children and adolescents that synthesizes research from leading trauma specialists and translates it into easy-to-implement techniques. The approaches laid out address the sensory and…
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Serial Killers

Psychiatry, Criminology, Responsibility

• By Francesca Biagi-Chai.
• Translated by Veronique Voruz, and Phillip Dravers.

Published September 2011

Francesca Biagi-Chai’s book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist…
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Autism

• By Stuart Murray.

Published September 2011

Autism is the first book on the condition that seeks to combine medical, historical and cultural approaches to an understanding of the condition. Its purpose is to present a rounded portrayal of the ways in which autism is currently represented in the world, It focuses on three broad areas: the…
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A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders

• Edited by June Alexander, and Janet Treasure.

Published July 2011

While many aspects of eating disorders remain a mystery, there is growing evidence that collaboration is an essential element for treatment success. This book emphasises and explains the importance of family involvement as part of a unified team approach towards treatment and recovery. A…
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Nadia Revisited

A Longitudinal Study of an Autistic Savant

• By Lorna Selfe.

Published June 2011

This book re-examines the case of Nadia, discovered as a child aged six, who had been drawing with phenomenal skill and visual realism from the age of three, despite having autism and severe learning difficulties. The original research was published in 1977 and caused great international interest.…
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Bullying, Suicide, and Homicide

Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing Threats to Self and Others for Victims of Bullying

• By Butch Losey.

Published May 2011

In our society, bullying is commonly seen as a normal, inescapable part of growing up that children and adolescents must simply endure. In Bullying, Suicide, and Homicide, Butch Losey challenges this viewpoint, arguing that bullying is not a part of childhood development, but rather an aberrant…
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