Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hersen, Michel[Herausgeber]
• Last, Cynthia G[Herausgeber]

Titel

Child Behavior Therapy Casebook

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1. How the Field Has Moved On -- 2. Separation Anxiety -- 3. Overanxious Disorder -- 4. Social Withdrawal -- 5. Simple Phobia -- 6. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- 7. Dysthymia -- 8. Major Depression -- 9. Mild Developmental Retardation -- 10. Severe and Profound Mental Retardation -- 11. Autism: A Case in Early Childhood -- 12. Autism: A Case in Preadolescence -- 13. Stuttering -- 14. Oppositional Disorder -- 15. Learning Disabilities -- 16. Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity -- 17. Conduct Disorder -- 18. Firesetting -- 19. Anorexia Nervosa -- 20. Bulimia Nervosa -- 21. Atypical Eating Disorder -- 22. Pica -- 23. Rumination -- 24. Obesit -- 25. Enuresis -- 26. Encopresis -- 27. Drug Abuse -- 28. Somatoform Disorders
• Some years ago we edited a general casebook on behavior therapy that was well received. However, those professors who used the book as an adjunct text in child behavior therapy courses were concerned that only 9 of the 26 chapters dealt with the clinical application of behavioral principles to children. Their contention was that a specific casebook on the topic was very much warranted. In considering their comments we took a closer look at the child behavior therapy area and were struck with how diverse it was, how it had expanded, and how it had matured over the last three decades. Given this apparent gap in the literature, we decided to devote an entire casebook to both the standard and the more innovative clinical applications to the behavioral problems presented by children. The resulting book, containing 28 chapters, is divided into two parts. In the first part, in a chapter entitled "How the Field Has Moved On," we briefly trace the historical roots of child behavior therapy, detail the relationship of psychiatric diagnosis and behavioral assessment, and consider the importance of developmental norms, psychological testing, efforts at prevention, and behavioral medicine. The bulk of this book, of course, appears in the 27 cases presented by our respective experts. Each of the treatment cases is presented in identical format for purposes of clarity, consistency, and comparability