Featuring in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what posttraumatic play looks like and how it can foster resilience and coping. Demonstrated are applications of play, art, and other expressive therapies with ......
This comprehensive volume shows how to use both diagnostic and behavioral assessment knowledgeably and effectively throughout the process of treatment. The two traditions have developed along separate paths--each with its own conceptual underpinnings and psychometric strengths. Used together, they can produce a complete picture of a child's or ......
This book helps clinicians harness the benefits of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for children and adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Leading treatment developers describe promising approaches for treating common challenges faced by young people with ASD--anxiety and behavior problems, social competence issues, ......
Checklist of Observations Linked to Outcomes (PICCOLO) User's Guide
Where are parents' skills the strongest - and how can they be encouraged to better support young children's cognitive, social, and language development? Home visitors can find out in minutes with PICCOLO, the quick, reliable observational tool designed to assess and monitor the quality of parent-child interactions.
Essential for programmes using the PICCOLO (TM), this training DVD includes a 64-minute narrated presentation and 14 invaluable DVD clips of parent-child interactions to help users practice observing and scoring. This DVD is part of the PICCOLO, a quick and reliable observation tool for measuring parent-child interactions.
A Guide for Supporting Families in Early Infant Care and Development
For families of an infant leaving the NICU, nothing's more exciting - and challenging - than the critical transition to home life with their baby. Support the NICU-to-home transition with this accessible book, the complete guide to helping parents meet their baby's special needs and promote optimal development in the first year after homecoming.
Enhance the development of infants and young children with more than 400 fun, fast, and developmentally appropriate learning activities, now in a new Spanish edition specially developed to complement ASQ-3.;
A Practitioner Guide to Screening, Assessment, and Management
Meeting a vital need, this book helps clinicians rapidly identify risks for suicidal behavior and manage an at-risk teen's ongoing care. It provides clear guidelines for conducting suicide risk screenings and comprehensive risk assessments and implementing immediate safety-focused interventions, as well as longer-term treatment plans. Designed for ......
Optimal care of children with neurocritical illness often involves multi-specialty collaboration, and recent years have seen a substantial expansion in the availability of data to guide acute care. This book addresses overall approaches to children with neurocritical illness and the management of specific conditions.
This is the first book to provide a wide range of leading-edge, step-by-step strategies for clinicians using EMDR therapy and adjunct approaches with children with severe dysregulation of the affective system. Written by an author internationally known for her innovative work with children, the book offers developmentally appropriate and advanced ......
Provides a modern clinical approach to managing stroke and other cerebrovascular problems in infants, children, and adolescents. This book incorporates data from clinical trials and case series, recommendations from the American Heart Association consensus paper on the management of pediatric stroke, and information on new diagnostic techniques.
Enhance the grown and development of infants and young children with more than 400 fun, fast, and easy-to-use learning activities developed especially to complement Ages and Stages Questionnaires (TM), Third Edition (ASQ-3 (TM)).
Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies for Communication and Social Inte
For Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) preparing to work with children who have autism spectrum disorders, selecting effective interventions for communication and social challenges is critically important. This accessible book gives SLPs the in-depth knowledge they need to evaluate, choose, and apply today's best interventions for communication ......
This book presents guidance for integrating spiritual interventions into psychotherapy with children and their families. Case studies are included, and ethical issues are given special consideration.
Suitable for childcare and preschool providers, pediatricians, family practitioners, and public health officials, this title addresses considerations for children who are at high risk of acquiring infection, or at risk of spreading infection in the daycare arena.
This highly practical book presents an evidence-based individual therapy approach for children and adolescents experiencing anger problems. Comprising 10 child sessions and three parent sessions, the treatment addresses anger management, problem solving, and social skills. Sessions are described in step-by-step detail, complete with helpful case ......
Featuring a wealth of clinical examples, this book facilitates implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in a range of contexts. It demonstrates how assessment strategies and treatment components can be tailored to optimally serve clients' needs while maintaining overall fidelity to the TF-CBT model. Coverage includes ......
A cutting-edge synthesis of science and practice, this book covers everything from sports-related concussions to less common types of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and related complications. Preeminent authorities review what is known about mTBI in childhood and adolescence-including its biomechanics, pathophysiology, and neurological and ......
When professionals listen to and support new parents in the perinatal period, families enjoy long-lasting benefits - from stronger attachment to increased parent responsiveness and confidence. This guidebook shows practitioners how to conduct effective, collaborative consultation sessions that help parents and infants in the critical first few ......
When you're working with preverbal children on the autism spectrum, you need a complete toolbox of highly effective strategies to expand their communication skills. Add Rapid Motor Imitation Antecedent Training (RMIA), and you'll have one of the most promising interventions for helping young children say their first words.
Care of Children Exposed to the Traumatic Effects of Disaster is designed to provide professional and volunteer disaster responders, including community members, who routinely interact with children with the tools they need to support, intervene, and identify children who need additional help overcoming the traumatic effects of extreme events.
For use with children 8-12 and their parents, this proven, flexible, and cost-effective group therapy program is the perfect way to address challenging behavior and social skills development and improve the lives of whole families.
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents will be an invaluable and worthy reference for all mental health practitioners who work with this distinct population. No other text on the subject will match it.
Pediatrics: Rehabilitation Medicine Quick Reference presents 111 alphabetically arranged topics covering all major concerns in pediatric rehabilitation. Organised in three sections, the first part reviews diagnostic considerations and testing while the final section highlights special considerations such as ageing with Paediatric-Onset Disability ......
Widely regarded as the definitive clinical reference and text in the field, this authoritative volume presents effective cognitive-behavioral approaches for treating frequently encountered child and adolescent disorders. The editor and contributors are leading experts who provide hands-on, how-to-do-it descriptions illustrated with clinical ......
Bringing together leading authorities, this comprehensive volume integrates the best current knowledge and treatment approaches for eating disorders in children and adolescents. The book reveals how anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other disorders present differently in children than in adults and explains their potentially far-reaching ......
A practical and complete guide to the integrated management of the dystonia patient. It provides a current understanding of this common but often poorly appreciated condition and a framework for delivering comprehensive multi and intra-disciplinary care. Individual chapters review medical and surgical strategies, botulinum toxin therapy, and ......
Addresses the myriad sleep-wake issues associated with neurological disturbances from the newborn period through adolescence. It covers everything from sleep and ADHD, headaches, restless leg syndrome, parasomnias, hypersomnias, autism, brain tumours, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, and other primary disorders to sleep co-morbidities, ......
Repairing the Effects of Stress and Trauma on Early Attachment
This eloquent book presents an empirically supported treatment that engages parents as the most powerful agents of their young children's healthy development. Child--parent psychotherapy promotes the child's emotional health and builds the parent's capacity to nurture and protect, particularly when stress and trauma have disrupted the quality of ......
Presenting an integrative model for treating traumatized children, this book combines play, art, and other expressive therapies with ideas and strategies drawn from cognitive-behavioral and family therapy. Eliana Gil demonstrates how to tailor treatment to the needs of each child by using both directive and nondirective approaches. Throughout, ......
The ASQ-3 Quick Start Guide is just what Spanish-speaking users have been asking for: a concise, at-a-glance guide that keeps ASQ-3 scoring and administration basics right at the fingertips. Perfect for busy professionals on the go, the Quick Start Guide is laminated, lightweight, and so cost-effective that every professional in a program can have ......
Providing evidence-based assessment tools, as well as a review of analgesics, effective dosing, and safe administration practices, this resource is for APNs, pediatric RNs, and primary care providers who assess and treat infants, children, and adolescents experiencing pain.
This innovative book goes beyond traditional play therapy to present a range of evidence-based assessment and intervention approaches that incorporate play as a key element. It is grounded in the latest knowledge about the importance of play in child development. Leading experts describe effective strategies for addressing a wide variety of ......
This new edition fills an important gap in the literature by providing a concise treatment of pediatric neurology that focuses on the most commonly seen diseases with clinical guidelines that help todayC busy practitioner find answers quickly.
Helps you take a journey through one of the most costly psychiatric disorders: Conduct Disorder. This book explores why children in the same environment as a child with conduct disorder are more affected than the child diagnosed with the problem. It uses one case study to investigate several treatments used by thirteen practicing clinicians.
Written for parents and teachers of children with ADHD, to help understand the world of their child along with providing workable strategies for every day living. Australian author living in Qld.
