The Handbook of Mental Health Interventions in Children and Adolescents - An Integrated Developmental Approach (Hardcover, New)

This brilliant and enormously practical handbook provides a systematic and comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of mental health treatment for children from ages 3 to 18. It includes the most up-to-date information on Developmental Science (including social environment, the mind, the brain, the neuron, the cell); Psychopharmacology (stimulants, anti-anxiety, anti-depressants, anti-kindling, neuroleptics, novel compounds, somatic treatments); Psychotherapies (behavioral, cognitive, supportive-expressive, explorative, interpersonal, family); Sociotherapy (including settings such as group, inpatient, partial hospitalization, residential, medical, legal, school, preventive); and Integrating Treatment. The editor is the author of Treating Adolescence (0-7879-0206-3) Treating PreSchool Children (0-7879-0877-0) and Treating School Age Children (0-7879-0878-9).