Focuses on short-term setting such as battered women's shelters, where time is at a premium and circumstances are unpredictable. Describes the intervention process from intake to termination, noting t
People who wouldn't dream of blaming parents for a child's asthma or diabetes are often quick to blame bad parenting for a child's hyperactivity, depression, or school phobia.??The parents, in turn, o
In this controversial and provocative book, Dr. Thomas Armstrong confronts America's obsession with Attention Deficit Disorder. With more than one million children diagnosed with ADD, the condition ha
Presenting a comprehensive developmental approach, this book examines the origins and course of normal and pathological dissociation in children and adolescents. The volume illustrates the critical c
A comprehensive handbook and teaching guide integrating neuropsychology and gerontology to promote progressive ideas in the care of aging individuals. The 35 contributions consider topics in the norm
Every day, children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They are given powerful drugs like Ritalin in order to cope with their ADD,
Shows readers how to engage even hard-to-reach parents, how to have an impact on their ways of parenting, and how to make them effective partners in fostering growth in their children.
Renowned child therapist Clark Moustakas demonstrates how play can be used to affirm and liberate children_children who suddenly become troubled in their school or family lives and can work out their
'Borderline' is the most slippery of diagnostic categories - by definition something marginal, something in-between, 'something that changes but remains approximately and recognizably the same,' in th
A window on the insular world of autism, this book offers a rare close look at the mysterious condition that afflicts approximately 350,000 Americans and affects millions more. As they make sense of
Explores the individual, family, sociocultural, and ethical forces at work in the lives of children forced to assume a parental role in the family, and delineates treatment strategies that address dif
The "grown-up talk" of therapy is likely to turn off children - especially if it focuses on their problematic behavior. The highly effective techniques of narrative therapy include child
A handbook for those working with children in distress, showing how to use a standardized scoring system to interpret children's drawings for clues to possible sexual and physical abuse and emotional
Psychodrama has its genesis in the play of children. In Who Calls the Tune? Bernadette Hoey explains how its powerful technique can be safely used in working with the child who has been badly traumati
Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. 101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques incorporat
Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse in Out-of-Home Care brings into the open current or past sexually, physically, or emotionally abusive behaviors between children or between children and their car
