Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, An Issue of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America

First, Infant Development is discussed. Then there are two articles on assessment in early childhood psychiatry: Psychiatric assessment, and Assessment of the caregiver-child relationship in early childhood psychiatry. Early Childhood Mental Health Problems are discussed next, such as Internalizing, Trauma and PTSD, Preschool Disruptive Behavior and ADHD (as viewed through a developmental lens), Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and Parental Psychopathology. In the next section, Early Childhood Specific Treatment Modalities are reviewed: Interventions for Behavioral Problems, Interventions for trauma--exposed dyads: Infant - Parent Psychotherapy and Child - Parent Psychotherapy, Video feedback in parent-infant treatment, Psychosocial interventions with biological effects: Bucharest Early Intervention Project, and Psychopharmacological interventions in preschoolers. Finally, Models of Care are proposed.

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• Authors: Daniel S. Schechter, Mary Margaret Gleason, Mary-Margaret Gleason, Mary Margaret Gleason, Daniel Schechter, Daniel S Schechter, Daniel S. Schechter
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2009
• EAN: 9781437711998
• ISBN: 978-1-4377-1199-8
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 569 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine; Child and Adolescent Psychiatr
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Paediatric medicine, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine