Child Psychology
Pathways to Good Practice
Navigate the challenging world of child and adolescent psychology with this valuable guide
Treatment of psychological distress in children is an enormously challenging and rewarding practice. Children and their psychological needs vary widely, and successful practitioners must be open to a range of treatment practices and toolkits in order to create a tailored program for each child. The field of child psychology has only recently begun to develop the body of evidence-based theories and models required to clearly direct clinical practice; as a result, a confident child psychological therapist must remain flexible, engaged, and curious.
Becoming a Confident Child Psychological Therapist offers a comprehensive guide to developing that confidence and curiosity and applying it in a clinical setting. Drawing upon the latest research and therapeutic models, it offers a practical, hands-on discussion of all aspects of the child psychological practice, from perinatal services to adolescent therapies. The result is an indispensable guide to navigating a unique set of challenges.
Becoming a Confident Child Psychological Therapist readers will also find:
* Treatment of topics including neurodivergence, working in schools, trauma informed practice, and many more
* Detailed discussion of Your Choice CBT and London Vanguard, two programs for reducing youth-driven community violence.
* An authorial team with decades of experience in both research and clinical practice
Becoming a Confident Child Psychological Therapist is ideal for any clinical practitioner specializing in child or adolescent psychology.
2. Theory and Evidence in Practice
3. A Developmental Approach to Assessment and Formulation
4. Supervision and Self-Reflection
5. Legal and Professional Contexts
6. Frameworks of Service Delivery
7. Inclusivity, Diversity and Power
8. Working with Goals and Monitoring Outcomes
9. Collaboration and Co-production
10. Adolescence
11. Sleeping, Feeding and Toileting Difficulties for young children
12. Parenting and Behavioural Interventions
13. Emotional Difficulties
14. Complex Emotional Difficulties
15. Eating Difficulties and Disorders
16. Paediatrics & Long-term health conditions
17. Disrupted Attachments
18. Young people with Intellectual Disabilities
19. Neurodivergence
20. Working in Schools
21. Perinatal services
22. Mental Health Crisis and In-patient Care
23. Youth Offending & Forensic Interventions
24. Digital Practice
25. Youth Community Practice
26. Working within Children's Social Care
27. Trauma-informed Practice
Clare Norris is Consultant Clinical Pscyhologist and Lead Clinical Psychologist for the Family Safeguarding Service, Hertfordshire County Council, UK. She has over twenty years' experience as a clinical psychologist and specialises in traumatized and attachment-disordered children.
Anna Picciotto is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Associate Director of CAMHS and Mental Health, Whittington Health NHS Trust, UK. She has more than two decades' experience in child and adolescent mental health and now leads one of the most well-respected community-based mental health services for children in the UK.
