"The breadth of this book is clearly a strength. The reader is exposed to a variety of approaches used to examine the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure as well as to the many issues that one must consider in this field....The book is quite appropriate for this audience and is also appropriate for those involved in social policy and law. The book does an excellent job of conveying the complexity of the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure without becoming too esoteric. A person wishing to become well informed about such effects would benefit greatly from reading this book." Sandra J. Kelly, PhD, Journal of Studies on Alcohol
Product Description
This authoritative new publication comprehensively reviews the important relationship between maternal alcohol abuse during pregnancy and the resulting in utero damage to the child, as well as the results of this damage during the child's development. The first part of the book discusses clinical issues of alcohol-related fetal malformation, the clinical picture of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, the epidemiology of maternal alcohol abuse, and the developmental outcome of the affected children. The second part addresses pathogenesis and neuropathology. Part Three reviews developmental issues of the growing affected child. The final part evaluates approaches to rehabilitation and intervention while reviewing social and public health issues.
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