How to Help Children and Young People with Complex Behavioural Difficulties

This is a useful addition to a series of books relating to difficult-to-reach young people published by Jessica Kingsley. The authors have experience in and enthusiasm for a subject that should interest most professionals who work with young people. While the book's title describes children with "complex difficulties", many of the ideas and programmes summarised have relevance to all professionals.

The book's strength is its comprehensiveness: from psychological underpinnings, documenting the relevance of attachment theory, via school leadership, through policy construction, to cognitive behavioural therapy techniques and beyond. Due to this huge remit, detail and critical analysis are sometimes lacking. Some sections are necessarily short and contain few citations, although each section has at least one reference to sources of an idea or strategy.