Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Understand and Treat the Emotional and Behavioral Ddisorders of a Child and an Adolescent

Planning the best treatment to support a child’s emotional issues can be in part helped through understanding the basic foundation of the family. This month’s Dual Main Selection contains essential strategies for understanding and treating emotional and behavioral disorders, addressing the child and his or her family.

Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e

Presented in a revised and updated third edition, this professional reference offers an authoritative review of evidence-based treatments for the most prevalent child and adolescent problems.

Written by top experts in the field, chapters address the treatment of childhood disorders from a cognitive-behavioral systems perspective and take into account many important and ongoing developments in research.

Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e depicts a decision-making approach to treatment and prevention and focuses on established research, relevant to both typical and atypical child and family functioning. It lists evidence-based treatment procedures and operational rules that conform to the realities and changing demands of clinical practice.

State-of-the-art applications go over anxiety disorders, autistic spectrum disorders, the effects of maltreatment, and substance use. The complex treatment of children and teens with ADHD discusses how it is viewed now as a chronic disorder for most children.

Treatment of Childhood Disorders, 3/e incorporates important, ongoing developments in research and treatment design. In particular, increased attention is given to combined treatments and how they translate into real-world clinical settings, as well as how individual, developmental, and contextual factors may influence outcome.

This definitive resource provides a comprehensive review of current issues of childhood disorders and includes empirically supported presentations. Chapters contain valuable information that cover developmental, emotional and behavioral disorders.

Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families

Providing a safe environment for a client and building a strong relationship between the individual, family, and the practitioner can reveal insight into the problems and possible causes of a disorder.

Designed to help therapists develop behavioral treatment plans for adolescent clients and their families, several interventions are clearly outlined in this manual.

It includes full descriptions and symptom summaries of common adolescent disorders. Topics cover areas such as separation anxiety, sibling relational problems, impulse control disorders, and personality changes due to a general medical condition.

Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families provides essential instructions for tracking patient sessions, as well as alerts to when outpatient reports are due.

This handbook offers step-by-step information on the authorization process and shows how to monitor payments and authorization dates. Psychotherapy with Adolescents and Their Families guides mental health professionals through the required reports and progress notes with separate treatment plans for adolescent, parents, and entire the family.

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