ABSTRACT

Alan Carr provides a comprehensive, thorough and practical guide to modern child and adolescent psychology. The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology covers all central concerns for practitioners in a single manual, including: conduct problems, emotional problems, learning disabilities, child protection, somatic illness, major depression, suicide, drug abuse, schizophrenia, divorce, foster care and bereavement. It will be essential reading for child and adolescent clinical psychologists, and valuable to many professionals in training, including educational psychologists, counselling psychologists, health psychologists, child psychotherapists, family therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, counsellors and child care workers.

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Section I Frameworks for practice

chapter 1|31 pages

Normal development

chapter 2|31 pages

Influences on problem development

chapter 5|29 pages

Report writing

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Section II Problems of infancy and early childhood

chapter 6|29 pages

Sleep problems

chapter 7|29 pages

Toileting problems

chapter 8|59 pages

Learning and communication difficulties

part |1 pages

Section III Problems of middle childhood

chapter 10|53 pages

Conduct problems

chapter 11|35 pages

Attention and overactivity problems

chapter 12|65 pages

Fear and anxiety problems

chapter 13|32 pages

Repetition problems

chapter 14|72 pages

Somatic problems

part |1 pages

Section IV Problems in adolescence

chapter 15|43 pages

Drug abuse

chapter 16|54 pages

Mood problems

chapter 17|31 pages

Anorexia and bulimia nervosa

chapter 18|43 pages

Schizophrenia

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Section V Child abuse

chapter 19|30 pages

Physical abuse

chapter 20|24 pages

Emotional abuse and neglect

chapter 21|50 pages

Sexual abuse

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SECTION VI Adjustment to major life transitions

chapter 22|21 pages

Foster care

chapter 23|31 pages

Separation and divorce

chapter 24|31 pages

Grief and bereavement