Developmental Problems of Childhood and Adolescence: Prevention, Treatment and Training

Provides a practical guide to, and critical review of, community and individual professional interventions that could ease the lives of children with developmental disorders and mental health problems.

Key features:

• A critical review of, and practical guide to, the interventions that could ease the lives of children with developmental disorders and mental health problems.
• Structured around the stages and developmental tasks in a child’s life span, from conception to teenage years.
• Discusses inherited disorders, intrauterine problems, neonatal and perinatal problems, early childhood attachment and physical disorders, disabilities at school, and problems associated with socialization
• Covers problems that affect children at all ages, such as learning disabilities, abuse and various psychological and psychiatric disorders.
• Consistently considers the role of parents, the family, and the community in interventions.
• Written by a leading expert in clinical child and adolescent psychology and social work.
• Bridges the gap between psychosocial interventions and medically-based treatments.

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Wiley

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Herbert, Martin

ISBN:

978-1-40-511592-6

Specialty:

• Clinical Psychology
• Psychology

Language:

English

Edition:

1st

Pages:

336

Publication Year:

2005