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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section I Frameworks for practice
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Section II Problems of infancy and early childhood
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Section III Problems of middle childhood
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Section IV Problems in adolescence
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Section V Child abuse
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SECTION VI Adjustment to major life transitions