SUGGESTED ACADEMIC READING LIST
(compiled July 2009)
Attachment (separation and loss)
Beek, M. & Schofield, G. (2004) Providing a secure base in long-term foster care. London: BAAF
Bowlby, J. (1973) Attachment and loss volume 2: Separation. NY: Basic Books
Bowlby, J. (1973) Attachment and loss volume 3: Loss, sadness and depression. NY: Basic Books
Bowlby, J. (1988) A secure base: Clinical applications of attachment theory. London: Routledge.
Cairns, K. (2002) Attachment, trauma and resilience: Therapeutic caring for children. London:
BAAF.
Clarke, A. & Clarke, A. (2000) Early experiences and the life path. London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers
Fahlberg, V. (Ed) (1988) Helping children when they must move in fitting the pieces together.
London: BAAF
Goldberg, S., Muir, R. & Kerr, J. (Eds) (1995) Attachment theory: Social, developmental and clinical
perspectives. London: Analytic Press.
Goldberg, S. (2000). Attachment and Development. London: Arnold.
Greenberg, M., Cicchetti, D. & Cummings, M. (Eds) (1986) Attachment in the pre-school years:
Theory, research and intervention. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Grollman, F. (Ed) (1967) Explaining death to children. Boston: Beacon.
Heard, D. & Lake, B. (1997) The challenge of attachment for caregivers. London: Routledge.
Holmes, J. (2002) The search for the secure base: Attachment theory and psychotherapy. East
Sussex: Brunner-Routledge.
Howe, D. (1995) Attachment theory for social work practice. Basingstoke: MacMillan Press.
Jewett, C. (1984) Helping children cope with separation and loss. Guildford and Kings Lynn:
Batsford Academic
Judd, O. (1989) Give sorrow words: Working with a dying child. London: Free Association Books.
Karen, R. (1994) Becoming attached: First relationships and how they shape our capacity to love.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Solomon, J. & George, C. (1999) Attachment disorganisation. London: Guilford
Stern, D. (1985) The interpersonal world of the infant. NY: Basic Books.
Child Development Books
Bradley, S. J. (2000) Affect regulation and the development of psychopathology. NY: Guilford
Press.
Brazelton, T. B. & Cramer, B. G. (1990) The earliest relationship. USA: Persius.
Bee, H. (1999) The growing child and applied approach. London: Longman
Erikson, E. (1995) Childhood and society. London: Vintage.
Fahlberg, V. (1988) Fitting the pieces together. London: BAAF
Fonaghy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E. L. and Target, M. (2004) Affect regulation, mentalization and the
development of self. London: Karnac Books.
Fraiberg, S. H. (1978) The magic years: Understanding the problems of early childhood. London:
Methuen.
Harris, P. (1989) Children and emotion: The development of psychological understanding.
Blackwell
Hughes, D. (1997) Facilitating developmental attachment. New Jersey: Jason Aaronson inc.
Russ, S. W. (2004) Play in child development and psychotherapy. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
associates.
Sherriden, M.D. (1975) From birth to five years: Children’s developmental progress. Hong Kong:
Nfer/Nelson
Sroufe, L. A. (1997) Emotional development: The organisation of emotional life in the early years.
Cambridge University Press.
Stern, D. N. (1977) The first relationship: Infant and mother. USA: Harvard.
Stern, D. (1985) The interpersonal world of the infant NY: Basic Books.
Wenar, C. & Kerig, P. (1994) Developmental psychopathology from infancy through adolescence.
New York: MacGraw/Hyphen Hill Inc.
Wickes, F. (1977) The inner world of childhood. London: Coventure.
Wolff, S. (1989) Childhood and human nature. The Development of Personality London: Routledge.
Child Observation
Fawcett, M. (1996) Learning through child observation. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Hobart, C. & Frankel, J. (2004) A Practical Guide to Child Observation and Assessment. (3rd
Edition). Nelson Thornes
Sternberg, J. (2005) Infant observation at the heart of training. London: Karnac Books
Court and Legal Issues
Daniels, D. & Jenkins, P. (2000) Therapy with children: Children’s rights, confidentiality and the
law. London: Sage.
Dent, H. & Flin, R. (1992) Children as witnesses. Chichester: Wiley.
Goodman, G. S. & Bottoms, B. L. (Eds) (1993) Child Victims, Child Witnesses. New York: Guilford.
Hart, R. A. (1992) Children’s participation: From tokenism to Citizenship. Italy: UNICEF.
Home Office, Crown Prosecution Service, Department of Health (2001). Provision of therapy for child
witnesses prior to a criminal trial: Practice guidance. Bolton: CPS.
Home Office, Lord Chancellor’s Department, Crown Prosecution Service, Department of Health,
National Assembly for Wales (2002) Achieving Best Evidence in Criminal Proceedings: Guidance
for Vulnerable or Intimidated Witnesses, Including Children. Home Office Communications
Directorate: London.
Jenkins, P. (2007) Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law. (2nd edition) London: Sage.
NSPCC/Childline (2006) Preparing young witnesses for court: A handbook for child witness
supporters. London: NSPCC.
Noon, A. (2000) Having a say: The participation of children and young people at child protection
meetings and the role of advocacy. UK: The Children’s Society.
Richardson, S. & Baron, H. (Eds) (2001) Creative responses to child sexual abuse: Challenges and
Dilemmas. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Plotnikoff, J. & Woolfson, R. (2004) In their own words: The experiences of 50 young witnesses in
criminal proceedings. London: NSPCC.
Creative therapies
Bannister, A., Barrett, K., & Shearer, E. (Eds) (1990) Listening to children: The Professional
response to hearing the abused child. London: Longman
Bannister, A. & Huntington, A. (2002) Communicating with children in adolescents: Action for
change. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Bannister, A. (1992) From hearing to healing: Working with the aftermath of child sexual abuse.
Hong Kong: Longwin, NSPCC
Bannister, A. (1997) The healing drama: Psychodrama and dramatherapy with abused children.
London: Free Association Books
Bradway, B. et al. (1981) Sandplay studies. San Francisco: Sigo press.
Bray, M. (1997) Poppies on the rubbish heap. Sexual abuse: The child’s voice. London: Jessica
Kingsley Publishers
Case, C. & Dailey, T. (Eds) (1990) Working with children in art therapy London: Routledge.
Campbell, J., Liebmann, M., Brooks, F., Jones, J. & Ward, (1999) Art therapy, race and culture.
London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Cox, M. (1992) Children’s drawings. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Dalley, T. (Ed) (1984) Art as therapy: An introduction to the use of art as a therapeutic technique.
London: Tavistock.
Gardner, H. (1980) Artful scribbles: The significance of children’s drawings. London: Jill Norman
Ltd.
Kramer, E. (1971) Art as therapy with children. London: Elek.
Malchiodi, C. A. (1998) Understanding children’s drawings. NY: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Mitchell, R. & Friedman, H. (1994) Sandplay, past, present and future. London: Routledge.
NSPCC, Chailey Heritage & The Department of Health (1997) Turning points: A resource pack for
communicating with children. Leicester: NSPCC
Oaklander, V. (1969) Windows to our children. Utah: Real People Press.
Plummer, D. (1999) Using interactive imagework with children. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Smith, C. & Nylund, D. (1997) Narrative therapies with children and adolescents. NY: Guilford press.
Thomas, G. V. & Silk, A. M. J. (1990) An introduction to the psychology of children’s drawings. NY:
NY University Press.
White, M. & Epston, D. (1990) Narrative means to therapeutic ends. NY: Norton.
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Bloch, S. (Ed) (1996) An introduction to the psychotherapies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Crompton, M. (1992) Children and counselling. London: Edward Arnold
Mearns, D. & Thorne, B. (1999) Person-centred counselling in action. London: Sage.
Lanyado, M. & Horne, A. (Eds) (1999) The handbook of child and adolescent psychotherapy.
London: Routledge
Rogers, C. R. (1995 reprint) Client-centered therapy. Suffolk: St Edmundsbury Press.
Rogers, C. R. (1961) On becoming a person. London: Constable.
Jung, C. G. (1983 reprint) Memories, dreams, reflections. London: Fontana Press.
Jung, C. G. (1991 reprint) Dreams. London: Ark.
Sinason, V. (1992) Mental handicap and the human condition: New approaches from the
Tavistock. London: Free Association Books.
Direct work
Aldgate, J. & Simmonds, J. (Eds) (1988) Direct work with children: A guide to Practitioners.
London: Batsford/BAAF
Redgrave, K. (1987) Child’s play: ‘Direct work’ with the deprived child. Cheadle: BGWS
Disability
Middleton, L. (1992) Children First: Working with children and disability. Birmingham: Venture
Press.
EMDR
McGuiness, V. (1997) Integrating play therapy and EMDR with children. UK: 1st Books Library
Tinker, R. H. & Wilson S. A. (1999) Through the eyes of a child: EMDR with children. London: W.W.
Norton and co
Filial therapy
VanFleet, R. (2000) A parents handbook of Filial therapy. Boiling Springs PA: Play Therapy Press.
VanFleet, R. (2005) Filial therapy: Strengthening parent-child relationships through play. (2nd
edition). Florida: Professional Resources Press.
Neuroscience
Cozolino, L. J. (2002) The neuroscience of psychotherapy. NY: WW Norton and Co.
Green, V. (Ed) (2003) Emotional development in psychoanalysis, attachment theory and
neuroscience: Creating connections. Hove: Brunner-Routledge.
Schore, A. N. (1994) Affect regulation and the origin of the self: The neurobiology of emotional
development. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.
Play Therapy
Axline, V. (1984) Dibs in search of Self: The moving story of an emotionally lost child who found
his way back. Buckinghamshire: Penguin Books
Axline, V. (1989) Play therapy. London: Churchill Livingstone,
Blom, R. (2006) The Handbook of Gestalt play therapy: Practical guidelines for child therapists.
London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Carroll, C. (1998) Introduction to therapeutic play. Oxford: Blackwell Science.
Cattanach, A. (1992) Play therapy with abused children. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Cattanach, A. (1994) Play therapy where the sky meets the underworld. London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers
Cattanach, A. (1997) Children’s stories in play therapy. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Cattanach, A. (2002) The story so far. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Cattanach, A. (2003) Introduction to play therapy. Hove: Brunner-Routledge.
Cattanach, A. (2008) Narrative approaches in play therapy with children. London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers
Cattanach, A. (2008) Play therapy with abused children. (2nd edition) London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers
Gil, E. (1991) The healing power of play: working with abused children. NY: Guilford.
Jennings, S. (1999) Introduction to developmental playtherapy. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Kaduson, H. & Schaefer, C. (1997) A hundred and one favourite play therapy techniques. New
Jersey: Jason Harrison Inc.
Landreth, G. L. (2001) Innovations in play therapy: Issues, process and special populations. NY:
Brunner-Routledge.
Landreth, G. L. (2002) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. (2nd edition) NY: Brunner-Routledge.
Lowenfeld, M. (1991) Play in childhood. MacKeith Press, Oxford.
McCarthy, D. (Ed) (2008) Speaking about the unspeakable: Non-verbal methods and experiences
in therapy with children. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
McMahon, L. (2009) The handbook of play therapy. (2nd edition). East Sussex: Routledge
Moustakas, C. (1974) Children in play therapy. NY: Ballantine books.
Norton, C. C. & Norton, B. E. (2002) Reaching Children through play therapy: An experiential
approach. (2nd edition). Denver: White Apple Press.
Notre Dame Centre (2007) Freedom to grow: Celebrating 75 years of the Notre Dame centre in
Scotland. Glasgow: The Publishing Cupboard
O’Connor, K., & Mages Braverman, L. (1997) Play therapy theory and practice: A comparative
presentation. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
O’Connor, K. J. (2000) The play therapy primer. New York: Wiley.
Ryan, V. & Wilson K. (2000) Case studies in non-directive play therapy. London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers
Schaeffer, C. (2003) Foundations in play therapy. New Jersey: John Wiley and sons.
Stagnitti, K. & Cooper, R. (Eds.) (2009) Play as therapy, assessment and therapeutic interventions.
London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Sunderland, M. (2000) Using story telling as a therapeutic tool with children. Oxon: Winslow Press
Timberlake, E. & Cutler, M. M (2001) Developmental play therapy in clinical social work. Needham
Heights: Allyn and Bacon.
West, J. (1996) Child centred play therapy. London: Arnold
White, N. & Hepston, D. (1990) Narrative means to therapeutic ends. New York: WW Norton and
company
Wilson, K., Kendrick, P. & Ryan, V. (2001) Play therapy: A non-directive approach for children and
adolescents. London: Bailliere Tindall
Woolf, A. & Austin, D. (2008) Handbook of therapeutic play in schools. Chester: A2C press.
Play
Chazan, S. (2002) Profiles of play. NY: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Garvey, C. (Ed) (1991) Play. Fontana
Roopnarine, J. L., Johnson, J. E. & I-Looper, F. H. (Eds) (1994) Children’s play in diverse cultures.
NY: State Uni of NY Press.
Russ, S. (2003) Play in child development and psychotherapy. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates.
Slade, A. & Wolf, D. (1994) Children at play: Clinical and developmental approaches to meaning
and representation. NY: Oxford University Press.
Winnicott, D. (1971) Playing and Reality. London: Tavistock
Relevant reading
Bettleheim, B. (1976) The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New
York: Knopf
De Saint-Exupery, A. (1991). The little prince. Egmont.
Estes, C. P. (1998 reprint). Women who run with the wolves: Contacting the power of the wild
women. London: Rider.
Gilligan, J. (1999). Violence: Reflections on our deadliest epidemic. London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers
Jones, G. (2002) Killing monsters: Why children need fantasy, superheroes and make-believe
violence. New York: Basic Books.
Neumann, E. (1973 reprint.) Amor and Psyche: The psychic development of the feminine, a
commentary on the tale by Apuleius. USA: Princeton Uni press.
Royce, R. & Royce, E. (2008) Together in Time: How creative therapies helped a family who
adopted two boys with attachment difficulties. BAAF, London
Varma, V. (Ed) (1993) Coping with unhappy children. London: Cassell.
Resilience
Gilligan, R. (2000) Promoting resilience: A Resource Guide on Working with children in the Care
System. London: BAAF.
Sexual Harm
Itzin, C. (2006) Tackling the Health and Mental Health Effects of Domestic and Sexual Violence
and Abuse. London: DoH.
Sexually harmful behaviour (Child on child)
Araji, S. K. (1997).Sexually Aggressive Children: Coming to understand them.
Thousand Oaks: Sage
Berliner, L. & Rawlings, L. (1991). A Treatment Manual: Children with sexual behaviour problems.
HSAC
Burton, J. E., Rasmussen, L. A. et al. (1998) Treating Children with Sexually Abusive Behaviour
problems: Guidelines for child and parent intervention.
HMTP
Cunningham, C. & MacFarlane, K. (1991). When Children Molest Children: Group treatment
strategies for young sexual abusers. Vermont: Safer Society Press.
Cunningham, C. & MacFarlane, K. (1996) When Children Abuse: Group treatment strategies for
children with impulse control problems. Vermont: Safer Society Press
Gil, E. & Johnson, T.C. (1993) Sexualised Children: Assessment and treatment of sexualised
children who molest. Rockville, MD: Launch Press
Johnson, T.C. (1995) Child Sexuality Curriculum for abused children and their parents.
Johnson, T.C. & Berry, C. (1989) Children who Molest: A treatment programme.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence 4(2), 185-203
Johnson, C. T. (1999) Understanding Your Child’s Sexual behaviour: What’s Natural and Healthy.
CA: New Harbinger Publications Inc.
MacFarlane, K. & Cunningham, C. (1988).Steps to Healthy Touching. Kidsrights
Pithers, W.D., Gray, A.S. et al. (1993) From Trauma to Understanding: A guide for parents of
children with sexual behaviour problems. Vermont: Safer Society Press
Pithers, W.D., Kashima, K.M. et al. (1988) Treating Child Sex Offenders and victims: A practical
guide. London: Sage
Rasmussen, L. A . (1995) Caring for Children with Sexually Abusive Behaviour Problems: A
Training Course for Foster and Shelter Care Parents. USD.
Clinical supervision and Supervision
Friedman, H. S. & Mitchell, R. R. (Eds.) (2008) Supervision of sandplay therapy. London: Routledge.
Hawkins,P. & Shohet, R. (2003.) Supervision in the helping professions. Maidenhead: Open
University Press.
Jopnes, P. & Dokter, D. (Eds) (2008). Supervision of Dramatherapy. London: Routledge.
Lahad, M. (2000) Creative supervision: The use of expressive arts methods in supervision and
self-supervision. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Odell-Miller, H. & Richards, E. (Eds.) (2009). Supervision of music therapy: A theoretical and
practical handbook. London: Routledge.
Payne, H. (Ed.) (2008) Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: A practitioners
handbook. London: Routledge.
Social (diversity and difference)
Burr, V. (1995) An introduction to social constructionism. London: Routledge.
Divivedi, K. N. & Varma, V. P. (Eds) (1996) Meeting the needs of ethnic minotity children: A
handbook for professionals. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Freire, P. (1990 reprint) Pedagogy of the oppressed. UK: Penguin.
Gibb, J. T., Huang, L. N. et al (Eds) (1998) Children of colour: Psychological interventions with
culturally diverse youth. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Hearn, J., Sheppard, D. L., Tancred-Sheriff, P. & Burrell, G. (1989) The sexuality of organisation.
London: Sage.
McClure, F. H. and Teyber, E. (Eds) (1996) Child and adolescent therapy: a multicultural relational
approach. London: Harcourt Brace.
Owusu, K. (Ed) (2000) Black British culture and society. London: Routledge.
Sue, W. & Sue, D. (1999) Counselling the culturally different: theory and practice. (3rd edition). NY:
Wiley.
Spirituality
Rinpoche, S. (1992) The Tibetan book of living and dying. London: Rider.
Scott Peck, M. (1990 reprint) The road less travelled. London: Arrow.
Trauma
Bannister, A. (2003) Creative Therapies with Traumatised Children. London: Jessica Kingsley
Publishers.
Howe, M. L. Goodman, G. S. & Ciccetti, D. (2008) Stress, Trauma, and Children's Memory
Development. US: Oxford University Press
James, B. (1996) Treating traumatised children, new insights and creative interventions. New
York: The Free Press
Lanyado, M. (2004) The presence of the therapist: Treating childhood trauma. Hove: BrunerRoutledge.
Solomon, M. F. & Siegel, D. J. (2003) Healing trauma: Attachment, mind, body and brain. NY: WW
Norton and co.
Van der Volk, B. A.., McFarlane, A. C. & Weisaeth, L. (Eds) (1996) Traumatic stress: The effects of
overwhelming experience on mind, body and society. NY: Guilford Press.