Treating Preschool Children (Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique) [Paperback]

Hans Steiner (Author), Irvin D. Yalom (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787908770 | ISBN-13: 978-0787908775 | Publication Date: August 15, 1997 | Edition: 1

The Critical Years

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

This book focuses on the clinical treatment of children from birth through age five, when the most devastating psychiatric syndromes can make their first appearance. This hands-on resource provides the knowledge and tools necessary to assess and treat serious problems such as autism, mental retardation, abuse, and neglect. In addition, it provides a variety of specific interventions for common behavioral issues, including attachment disorders, sleep problems, toilet training, and gAnder issues.

Written with the same sensitivity and insight as Treating School-Age Children and Treating Adolescents, this is an indispensable guide for meeting the challenges of treating children during these early, critical years.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Hans Steiner is to be congratulated on this important effort to call attention to clinical problems in the earliest years of life. In this introductory text, he has assembled an outstanding group of clinicians who describe and illustrate the important developmental and clinical issues of the first five years. Those who evaluate and treat young children will find much to admire in this well-organized volume." (Charles H. Zeanah, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Medical College)

From the Inside Flap

Treating Preschool Children is the third volume on the treatment of children in the Jossey-Bass Library of Current Clinical Technique. This book focuses on the clinical treatment of children from birth through age five, when the most devastating child psychiatric syndromes can make their first appearance. Written by a team of researchers and frontline clinicians, this hands-on resource provides the 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 attachment disorders, sleep problems, toilet training, and gender issues. Written with the same sensitivity and insight as Treating School-Age Children and Treating Adolescents, this volume is an indispensable guide for meeting the challenges of treating children during these early, critical years.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (August 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787908770
• ISBN-13: 978-0787908775
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,493,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hans Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria and received his Doctor medicinae universalis (Dr. med. univ. = M.D.) from the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1972. He completed his residency in adult Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, his child and adolescent psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Currently, Dr. Steiner is Professor Emeritus (Active) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child Psychiatry and Human Development at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Distinguished Professor at the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine, and Guest Professor, Medical University of Vienna. He also is a founder of The Pegasus Physicians at Stanford, a group of doctors who write creatively.
He has authored over 500 published articles, abstracts, reviews, books and book chapters. He is the editor of three volumes on Treating Preschool Children, Treating School Age Children, and Treating Adolescents. He is the editor of the Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents: An Integrated Developmental Approach, and the forthcoming Handbook of Developmental Psychiatry. He is one of three editors of a German-American Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He serves on the editorial boards of over 70 scientific journals and publishing houses. He is very active in public service.
He has lectured widely in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia and regularly provides keynote addresses at professional meetings.