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

This book 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.
The book is structured around the developmental stages and tasks in a child’s life span, from conception to teenage years. It covers inherited disorders, intrauterine problems, neonatal and perinatal problems, early childhood attachment and physical disorders, disabilities at school, and problems associated with socialisation. It also discusses problems that affect children at all ages, such as learning disabilities and abuse, and various psychological and psychiatric disorders. A constant theme of the book is the role of parents, the family, and the community, in interventions.
Written by a leading expert in child and adolescent clinical psychology and social work, the book bridges the gap between psychosocial interventions and medically–based treatments. Its design allows it to be used alongside Martin Herbert’s Typical and Atypical Development: From Conception to Adolescence (BPS Blackwell, 2003).

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Developmental Disabilities and Disorders: .
Chapter 1 The Care–Plan Formulation.
Chapter 2 Where to receive help: Service providers.
Part II: From Conception to Infancy:.
Chapter 3 The prenatal period.
Chapter 4 The uterine environment.
Chapter 5 The perinatal stage.
Part III: Developmental Disorders: Child Development Centres:.
Chapter 6 Developmental disorders of infancy.
Chapter 7 Developmental Disorders of early childhood.
Chapter 8 The Toddler Period.
Chapter 9 The Pre–School Child.
Part V: The School–Going Stage:.
Chapter 10 The transition to school.
Chapter 11 Children with disabilities at school.
Chapter 12 The transition to adolescence: Late Childhood and Early Adolescence.
EPILOGUE.
Appendix I: The Statement of Special Need.
Appendix II: Needs of Developmentally Disabled Children and their Families.
Appendix III: Assessment.
Appendix IV: Resource Material.
Appendix V: Typical Development Summaries.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index

Nota biograficzna:
Martin Herbert is Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology at Exeter University. He has held a variety of senior clinical and academic posts, including lecturer and clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Director of the School of Social Work at the University of Leicester, Mental Health Act Commissioner, and Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Healthcare Trust. In 1994 he was awarded the Monty Shapiro Prize for distinguished contribution to Clinical Psychology by the British Psychological Society. He is the author of many books, including Typical and Atypical Development: From Conception to Adolescence (BPS Blackwell, 2003).

Okładka tylna:
This book 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.
The book is structured around the developmental stages and tasks in a child’s life span, from conception to teenage years. It covers inherited disorders, intrauterine problems, neonatal and perinatal problems, early childhood attachment and physical disorders, disabilities at school, and problems associated with socialisation. It also discusses problems that affect children at all ages, such as learning disabilities and abuse, and various psychological and psychiatric disorders. A constant theme of the book is the role of parents, the family, and the community, in interventions.
Written by a leading expert in child and adolescent clinical psychology and social work, t he book bridges the gap between psychosocial interventions and medically–based treatments. Its design allows it to be used alongside Martin Herbert’s Typical and Atypical Development: From Conception to Adolescence (BPS Blackwell, 2003).