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Overview
Every physician who works with children occasionally encounters troubled behavior in their patients--from learning and discipline problems to severe eating difficulties. To provide the best care possible, clinicians, as well as parents, need a practical guide to help them control and remedy these treatable problems.Pediatric Compliance is a straightforward, comprehensive review of effective assessment methods and treatment protocols for common behavioral and biobehavioral disorders in children. Dr. Christophersen, a noted specialist in behavioral pediatrics, presents practical strategies that address such frequently encountered disorders as toileting problems, excessive crying, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and separation anxiety. Based on material presented in a highly successful pediatric psychology course at the University of Kansas Medical Center (where Dr. Christophersen taught from 1974 to 1991), this unique guide contains problem evaluation techniques and proven treatment summaries that can be put to repeated constructive use in daily clinical practice.
Incl. symptom, medication, trmt regimen checklists/tips for giving medications/tests, teaching guidelines/injury control
Synopsis
The author presents a comprehensive review of common behavior problems, assessment tools, and detailed treatment protocols to provide physicians, psychologists, nurses, and social workers with techniques easily assimilated into existing practices. The presentation is of particular value in that each chapter includes a detailed handout for distribution to parents-thus enhancing the utility of this book in the office.
Booknews
For clinicians who want to incorporate information on normal child development into their primary care practices--clinicians who want answers to the questions parents raise every day--this volume summarizes the clinical experience gathered treating thousands of children using previously evaluated treatment protocols. The procedures were developed in and intended for use in busy clinical care settings. Christophersen is Chief, Behavioral Pediatrics Section, and Professor of Pediatrics, U. of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine, and Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)