Handbook of Prevention and Treatment with Children and Adolescents: Intervention in the Real World Context [Paperback]

Robert T. Ammerman (Editor), Michel Hersen (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997 | ISBN-10: 0471121630 | ISBN-13: 978-0471121633 | Edition: 1

Practical and insightful strategies to help children thrive in adverse living conditions

Clinicians striving to intervene and provide treatment for children living under adverse circumstances often find themselves fighting a losing battle with forces beyond their control-drugs, disease, violence, and poverty-which reflect the everyday reality for these children and their families. In Handbook of Prevention and Treatment with Children and Adolescents, internationally recognized experts lay out state-of-the-art, empirically evaluated intervention strategies that deal directly with the sociodemographic forces that promote dysfunction and undermine treatment outcomes. Focusing on the issues and challenges faced by clinicians, this groundbreaking book provides practical, real-world solutions designed to mitigate the influence of negative environmental factors.

Coverage includes:
* The destructive influence of poverty and other social ills on child development
* Specific intervention formats and settings-from individual treatment to school- and community-based programs
* Particular problem areas and psychiatric disorders
* Early intervention and preventive approaches for such behavioral issues as substance abuse, antisocial behavior, and sexually transmitted diseases
* Recommendations for treatment of specific psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and posttraumatic stress

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book addresses the problems encountered while intervening with children, adolescents and their families who face poverty, child and substance abuse. It deals with the prevention and treatment of these problems, including individual, school and community-based programs that deal with specific issues and psychiatric disorders in these children and adolescents.

From the Back Cover

Clinicians striving to intervene and provide treatment for children living under adverse circumstances often find themselves fighting a losing battle with forces beyond their control. Clinical programs are often no match for the pervasive influence of drugs, disease, violence, and poverty that is the everyday reality for these children and their families. These and other forms of community malaise have a profound and ongoing impact on children's social and psychological development—an impact that can far outweigh the influence of conventional treatment strategies.

In this groundbreaking book, internationally recognized experts lay out state-of-the-art, empirically evaluated intervention strategies that deal directly with the sociodemographic forces that promote dysfunction and undermine treatment outcomes. Focusing on the issues and challenges faced by clinicians, it provides a comprehensive approach to treatment and prevention designed to mitigate the influence of negative environmental factors.

The book begins with a close examination of the destructive influence of poverty and other social ills on child development and moves on to discuss specific intervention formats and settings—from individual treatment to school and community-based programs. The second half of the book offers an extended exploration of particular problem areas and psychiatric disorders. A review of early intervention and preventive approaches for such behavioral issues as substance abuse, antisocial behavior, and sexually transmitted diseases is followed by recommendations for treatment of specific psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and posttraumatic stress.

For clinical, developmental, and community psychologists, school counselors, child psychiatrists, social workers, and educators, the Handbook of Prevention and Treatment with Children and Adolescents is a highly relevant professional reference and guide, which offers insightful and practical solutions to problems that often seem insurmountable in the clinical context. It is also an excellent graduate-level textbook that prepares students to cope with some of the most difficult challenges facing clinicians and children today.

"The negative social influences on children and their families are often out of the direct control of clinicians, and the quantity of time spent in actual treatment pales in comparison to that spent in settings which promoted psychosocial dysfunction in the first place. Because this disparity subverts the effectiveness of interventions, clinical programs must be designed and carried out that take into account those factors in the child's social ecology interfering with optimal outcomes."—From the Preface to the Handbook of Prevention and Treatment with Children and Adolescents

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Product Details

• Paperback: 656 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471121630
• ISBN-13: 978-0471121633
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,918,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)