This casebook illustrates the rich and arresting nature of disorders that first manifest themselves in childhood and shows how the child's developmental patterns shape the expression of each disorder. Each complex case demonstrates how each disorder is expressed-from presentation through diagnosis and treatment-in a way that a case excerpt within ...
School refusal behaviour is a common and difficult problem facing parents of children and teenagers. It can have severe consequences for a child's academic, social, and psychological well-being. A child's absence from school can also significantly increase family conflict. This parent Workbook is designed to help parents work with a therapist to ...
Many children and teenagers refuse to attend school or have anxiety-related difficulties that stop them from remaining in classes for an entire day. School refusal behaviour can contribute to a child's academic, social and psychological problems, can impact upon their chances for future educational, financial and personal success, and can ...
This book is designed to help educators, school administrators and counsellors address this behaviour early, before clinical intervention is needed. It is most beneficial for children who have demonstrated refusal behaviour for a short period of time, whose symptoms are not yet severe, and who display few comorbid problems such as ADHD, conduct ...
The youngster who won't talk to anyone. The child who avoids social and extracurricular activities. The teenager who has trouble performing before others. Many children experience social anxiety in certain settings. Some, however, perhaps as many as 4 percent experience a clinical condition of severe social and evaluative anxiety that profoundly ...
This text examines anxiety-related disorders of childhood. It provides mental health guidelines for treating childhood anxiety disorders. Innovative approaches are presented regarding prescriptive treatment strategies, group in interventions and the role of family members in treatment.
A discussion of the historical context and common strategies for treating the problem of school refusal in youth. It offers an empirically-based approach, designed to help clinicians to weigh multiple symptoms and generate a focus on the factors that are maintaining the behaviour.
This program is a unique prescriptive model for the treatment of school refusal behavior of children ages 5 to 17. Using a two-component program, this model divides the school refusal behavior into four basic groups, based on the reasons why children refuse school; avoidance of school situations that provoke general negative affectivity; escape ...
This is a two-component program for the treatment of school refusal behavior of children ages 5 to 17. It includes a therapist guide, take-home workbook for parents, and daily record log forms for use in the initial assessment and for tracking behavior through treatment.
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.