Children in Difficulty: A guide to understanding and helping

by JulianElliott (Author), Maurice Place (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $43.12

  Written by two leading experts in the field, this welcome third edition of Children in Difficulty: A guide to understanding and helping discusses some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties that are frequently encountered by young children and adolescents.

  This includes such topics as:

  • ADHD
  • disruptiveness and challenging behaviour in schools and classrooms
  • dyslexia and reading disability
  • eating disorders
  • oppositional defiance, conduct and attachment disorders
  • childhood depression
  • school refusal
  • developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia)
  • less common mental health problems, such as bipolar disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.
  • traumatic and stressful situations
  • drug and solvent abuse.

  The third edition of this book includes brand new insights from the fields of genetics and neuroscience and ensures claims for the effectiveness of specific interventions are supported by rigorous, scientific evidence. By drawing upon high level scientific and clinical knowledge and distilling it in a way that is accessible to professionals from a range of child care disciplines, this book will be of significant value to those working in education, health or social care, and anyone who needs to be able to recognise and help children in difficulty.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $6.51

  Written by two practising clinicians, this book is designed as a guide for those who work with children. In clear, simple language it focuses upon some of the most common, yet often incapacitating difficulties which are frequently encountered by young children and adolescents.

  After introducing and discussing different forms of therapy and treatment used in clinical work with children, the book provides a series of chapters, each dealing with a specific difficulty. Drawing upon recent research findings, and employing detailed case illustrations, it seeks to help the reader to understand the nature of each problem and offers a guide as to how the child in difficulty can best be helped.

  The book is designed to be of particular value to those working in education, social work, health and child-care settings, and anyone who needs to be able to recognize and help children in difficulty.