Treating Schoolage Children

This book presents effective and efficient interventions for the children who are just beginning school through the years of early puberty. The expert contributors offer frontline clinicians the knowledge and tools they need for assessing and treating the problems that are unique to this age group. Encouraging both creativity and flexibility, this volume presents specific recommendations for the treatment of developmental issues and problems such as hyperactivity, depression, obsession, compulsions, phobias, and trauma-related problems.
Written with the same sensitivity and insight as Treating Preschool Children and Treating Adolescents, this volume is an indispensable guide for meeting the challenge of treating children between the ages of six and twelve.

Covers disruptive behavioral disorders, conversion & somatoform disorders, pain & related problems, etc.

Treatments for Developmental Issues and Problems

A Volume in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique

This book presents effective and efficient interventions for children who are just beginning school through the years of early puberty. The expert contributors offer the knowledge and tools for assessing and treating the problems that are unique to this age group. Encouraging both creativity and flexibility, they present specific recommAndations for the treatment of developmental issues and problems such as hyperactivity, depression, obsession, compulsions, phobias, and trauma-related problems.

Helps clinicians to be the best that they can be.?—John E. Schowalter, M.D., Albert J. Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Child Study Center, Yale University

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Focuses on the clinical treatment of children from birth through age five, when the most devastating child psychiatric syndromes can make their first appearance. Provides knowledge and tools necessary to assess and treat serious problems, such as autism, mental retardation, abuse, and neglect. In addition, the authors present a variety of specific interventions for common behavioral issues, including feeding disorders, attachment disorders, sleep problems, toilet training, and gender issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

HANS STEINER is professor of psychiatry and behavioral science in the Division of Child Psychiatry and Development at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. In addition to other awards, he was selected by Good Housekeeping as one of the nation's 327 best mental health care providers. IRVIN D. YALOM is professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the author of several basic textbooks, including the Classic Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, as well as the best-selling trade book Love's Executioner and the award-winning novel When Nietzsche Wept.