A Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours (ePub)

Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours

with Wiley Desktop Edition



This ground-breaking book takes a new approach to the assessment
of behaviour in children and adolescents. Written by an expert
author team, combining one (Jonathan Williams) with higher
qualifications in general practice, child neuropsychiatry, and
child and adolescent psychiatry, with one (Peter Hill) with higher
qualifications in medicine, paediatrics and child and adolescent
psychiatry, the book draws on many thousands of multidisciplinary
case discussions, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in the
Children's Multispecialty Assessment Clinic in North London,
and in private practice.

The book is ideal for the busy mental health professional
working in a small team. Organised to allow rapid look-up of
behaviours with comprehensive lists of their possible causes, it
synthesizes research evidence and clinical experience. The authors
interpret behaviour broadly, including not just voluntary
actions, but also actions whose voluntary nature is questionable
(such as drop attacks, personal preferences, and pseudobehaviours).
They also include problems that lead to referral through their
behavioural manifestations (e.g. aggression, anxiety, or a poor
relationship with mother). Overall, the book spans the behavioural,
cognitive, social and emotional problems of children and
adolescents.

With the child and family in the room, and with detailed school
reports and psychometric results available, it is usually possible
to identify causes of symptoms that are specific to the child and
his environment, and which can guide behavioural, cognitive,
social, and family interventions.

Purchasers of the book will also be entitled to a Wiley Desktop
Edition--an interactive digital version featuring downloadable
text and images, highlighting and note taking facilities, in-text
searching, and linking to references and glossary terms.