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Mental Health Interventions with Preschool Children
Lyman, Robert D.; Hembree-Kigin, Toni L.
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Description for Mental Health Interventions with Preschool Children
Hardback. Offers a review of the symptoms and available treatments of mental health disorders in preschool children. This volume contains chapters, which discuss prevalence, etiology, assessment and treatment. It is intended for mental health professionals, child psychologists, school psychologists, and educators. Series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1370.
Preschool children have been largely neglected in the mental health treatment literature, although research has established that many behavioral and emotional disorders in children result from events occurring during the preschool years or are first manifested during this period. This has occurred for several reasons. Traditional psychoanalytic thinking has considered preschoolers to be too psychologically immature for complete manifestations of psychopathology, and the limited language abilities of young children have complicated assessment procedures and made them less appropriate for treatment approaches that are largely verbal in nature. In addition, the developmental complexity of the preschool period has deterred many researchers ... Read more
Preschool children have been largely neglected in the mental health treatment literature, although research has established that many behavioral and emotional disorders in children result from events occurring during the preschool years or are first manifested during this period. This has occurred for several reasons. Traditional psychoanalytic thinking has considered preschoolers to be too psychologically immature for complete manifestations of psychopathology, and the limited language abilities of young children have complicated assessment procedures and made them less appropriate for treatment approaches that are largely verbal in nature. In addition, the developmental complexity of the preschool period has deterred many researchers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Issues in Clinical Child Psychology
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306448607
SKU
V9780306448607
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Reviews for Mental Health Interventions with Preschool Children
`A well-written book from which to begin to provide services to parents, families, and children. This book may well serve to generate further research into the covered topics, as one can quickly see the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations to what we currently know....a valuable service to the profession. The authors' writing style is easy to ... Read more