"The contributors to this topical volume explore the role of family support in promoting the welfare of children and their families. They show how children can be supported in the development of their full potential despite adverse experiences. Family support enables children to access the variety of resources available to them in the multiplicity of contexts in which they live. Family Support: Direction from Diversity integrates concep ..."
When Babies Read(1st Edition) A Practical Guide to Helping Young Children with Hyperlexia, Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism by Audra K. Jensen, PeterSteenJensen Paperback, 189 Pages, Published 2005 by Jessica Kingsley Pub Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-84310-803-0, ISBN: 1-84310-803-8
"Audra K. Jensen' son began reading when he was only two years old. She shares her experiences - both the challenges and joys - of raising a child with autism and hyperlexia - an early and obsessive interest in the written word associated with social deficits and significant difficulty in understanding verbal language. The author stresses the importance of diagnosis of the condition for successful implementation of effective teaching str ..."
"The second edition of Psychosocial Treatments for Child and Adolescent Disorders amplifies and refines the material presented in the first. This volume was written for practitioners, treatment researchers, professors and students, health care administrators, and others who make decisions about mental health treatment services for children and adolescents. Because the field continues to debate which treatments are efficacious with which ..."
"Chances are, this isn't the first book you've picked up on ADHD. But where can you turn when you've mastered the basics and doing everything right isn't enough - the insurer denies your claims, parent-teacher meetings get tense, or those motivating star charts no longer encourage good behavior? When the system isn't working for your child, you need from-the-trenches advice on who to call, what to ask, how to improve your odds of getting ..."
"In the United States, approximately 20% of children and adolescents have diagnosable mental health problems, with eleven percent significantly impaired. Sadly, most of these afflicted youth are not appropriately diagnosed and treated. For the editors of DSM-IV-TR(R) Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health, this gap in services represents a crisis to which this outstanding volume is their powerful response. Working with an i ..."
"This important volume brings together leading child psychiatry researchers to critically review the current diagnostic system and work toward new, more clinically useful ways of understanding childhood problems. The authors examine how existing diagnostic categories as embodied in the DSM-IV do not adequately account for the interplay between maladaptive behavior on the one hand, and children's environmental contexts, relationships, and ..."
"DSM-5 (R) Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health offers trainees and clinicians who provide mental health services to children and adolescents a concise but conceptually and clinically rich guide to the types of disorders commonly found in practice. The cases are either new or updated from the previous publication, which was designed as a child mental health casebook for DSM-IV-TR, and were chosen to illustrate advances in ..."
"It is estimated that between 17 and 22 per cent of children ages 6 to 8 exhibit some form of behavioural, emotional or developmental disorders. By and large, the children who receive treatment for these disorders receive interventions that do not have empirical supports with regard to efficacy. It is estimated that more than 200 treatment modalities are actually practiced with this population, and research has examined only a few of the ..."