Family Relationships, Developmental Disorders - General & Miscellaneous, Child Welfare & Family Services, Child Rearing & Development, Child & Infant Psychology & Psychiatry, Developmental Psychology, Parenting - General & Miscellaneous, Infants & Toddler
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Overview
This volume addresses a widely acknowledged need in the literature available to practitioners and students - a need for detailed case studies which illustrate diagnostic and therapeutic issues and methods specific to work with children from birth to three and their families. The detailed case reports in this volume allow the reader to see how elements of a clinical response interact. These reports tell us what manuals, protocols, guidelines, and even program evaluations and outcome measures cannot reveal: how one baby, one family, and one set of would-be helpers, with all their combined strengths, skills, resources, vulnerabilities, and histories, worked together for the healthy growth of the child. The contributors to this volume have recorded with care the language, behavior, emotional style, appearance, and other telling details about the infants and families with whom they have worked. They describe the opportunities and limits of their own work settings, their insights and perplexities as they make decisions, and their emotional responses as the work continues. A broad spectrum of child and family circumstances is presented in order to illustrate common themes as well as the range of clinical practice with infants, toddlers, and their families. Indeed, timely guidance and support may lessen the need for costly long-term interventions which must attempt to relieve major stress, repair damaged relationships, and provide intensive support to both child and family before development can move forward.Editorials
Booknews
For medical practitioners and students, detailed case studies illustrate the diagnostic and therapeutic issues and methods specific to working with children from birth to three and their families. Considers clinical responses to patients with disabilities, in risky environments, and in troubled relationships. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 1, 1993
Publisher
Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, c1993.
Pages
314
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780823612277