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Help your child or teen get back on track : what parents and professionals can do for childhood emotional and behavioral problems /
Ken Book Award Winner 2008. Gold Medal Winner in the 2008 IPPY awards. Help Your Child or Teen get Back on Track offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral proble...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- section I. Parents' interventions
- 1. What to do when you think your child has a problem
- Organization of chapter 1
- Questions and answers
- 1) I think my child is having a problem. Now what?
- 2) How do I know if my child's behavior and emotions are serious problems?
- 3) What simple guidelines will help me begin to understand the seriousness of my child's troubles?
- 4) How else can I distinguish between normal development and disorder/disruption?
- 5) What challenges in the "job" of growing up can result in emotional and behavioral distress?
- 6) What changes/stressors might make my child's "job" of growing up more difficult?
- 7) What if I've seen no sudden changes in my child, but am concerned in general about the type of person he is "becoming"?
- 8) What if I'm so angry, frazzled, or scared that I want my child to "just stop it"?
- 9) What if I cannot talk with my daughter and she won't talk with me?
- 10) Once I think I understand my child, is it better to do something or say something to help her?
- 11) What if I understand my child's problems, but do not know how to make the changes needed?
- 12) Can punishment lead to positive changes in my child and promote new ways of learning to cope?
- 13) I want to get professional help for my son, but my husband thinks he is "just being a boy" and that I'm making too much of it. What should I do?
- 14) If I do seek a professional consultation, does that mean my child will go on medication and be in treatment for a long time?
- 15) What if I'm waiting for an appointment with a specialist, but I am worried about my child's safety and mine?
- Reference
- 2. The red flags : an alphabetical list of symptoms
- Contents
- Organization of chapter 2
- The symptoms
- 3. Disruptions in development : the whole child
- Organization of chapter 3
- The importance of a developmental perspective
- Infants and toddlers
- Disruption of bodily routine (eating, sleeping, and elimination)
- Disruption of relationships (attachment)
- Disruption of emotional modulation (mood, arousal, and anxiety)
- Preschoolers
- Disruption of bodily routine (eating, sleeping, and elimination)
- Disruption of bodily activity (movement)
- Disruption of emotional modulation (mood, arousal, and anxiety)
- Disruption of relationships (attachment)
- School-aged children : 6-12
- Disruption of bodily routine (eating, sleeping, and elimination)
- Disruption of bodily activity (movement)
- Disruption of emotional modulation (mood, arousal, and anxiety)
- Disruption of relationships (attachment)
- Disruption of relationships (social custom)
- Disruption of information processing (learning)
- Adolescents
- Disruption of bodily routine (eating, sleeping, and elimination)
- Disruption of bodily activity (movement)
- Disruption of emotional modulation (mood, arousal, and anxiety)
- Disruption of relationships (attachment and sexual behavior)
- Disruption of relationships (social custom)
- Disruption of information processing (learning)
- Disruption of information process (thinking)
- 4. Ten steps to help your child get back on track
- Organization of chapter 4
- The steps
- 1) DO remind your child that you are both on the same side
- 2) DO provide limits and reasonable expectations
- 3) DO make sure your child has regular routines
- 4) DO give your child encouragement
- 5) DO help your child to confront fear
- 6) DO NOT try to predict your child's future
- 7) DO learn to see and appreciate small improvements and positive changes
- 8) DO NOT let intense emotions dominate your interactions with your child
- 9) DO remember that your child is not you
- 10) DO take care of your own physical and emotional needs
- 5. Coping with your feelings when your child suffers
- Organization of chapter 5
- Your own painful emotions
- Guilt
- Shame
- Fear
- Anger
- Sadness
- Parents' serenity prayer.
- section II. Professionals' interventions
- Changes in child mental health treatment in recent years
- 6. Evaluation and testing : why, what, who, and where?
- Organization of chapter 6
- Why was the evaluation or testing requested?
- What is involved in evaluation and testing?
- A. psychological tests
- B. Non-psychological tests
- Who does the testing and who wants the information?
- Who does the testing?
- Who wants the information?
- Where is the evaluation done?
- A clinical example
- 7. Questions about treatment : who are the helpers and where are they?
- Organization of chapter 7
- Before you seek professional help
- Who are the helpers?
- Pediatrician/family physician
- Child psychiatrist
- Clinical psychologist
- Neuropsychologist
- Clinical social worker
- Family therapist
- Mental health counselor
- School adjustment counselor
- Where are the treatments?
- 1) Outpatient services
- 2) Inpatient services
- 3) Emergency/crisis services
- 8. Psychotherapy and its side effects
- Organization of chapter 8
- Psychological treatment
- Individual psychotherapy
- Non-individual psychotherapy
- Choosing a therapist
- Psychotherapy : frequently asked questions
- Psychotherapy and side effects
- 9. Medications and their side effects
- Organization of chapter 9
- How medications/chemicals affect behavior
- General guidelines for using medication with children
- Side effects in general
- Medications in children and side effects
- Medications, and the side effects of medications for mental health problems
- 1) Inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity, and distractibility
- 2) Depression
- 3) Bipolar disorder and severe mood instability
- 4) Anxiety
- 5) Psychosis, severe mood disorder, servere anxiety, severe aggression, severe agitation, and Tourette's syndrome
- 6) Medications for other specific disorders or symptoms
- Pharmacotherapy : frequently asked questions
- 1) Who is the best person to provide medication treatment for my child, and why?
- 2) How do I decide to have my child take medication? Does my child take medication with, or instead of, psychotherapy?
- 3) How do I tell whether the medication is helping?
- 4) How long will pharmacotherapy last?
- 5) Will medication continue without psychotherapy?
- Conclusion
- 10. Complementary and alternative therapies and their side effects
- Organization of chapter 10
- The why, when, and what of alternative treatments
- Herbal treatment
- Vitamin and dietary treatments
- Meditation and relaxation techniques
- Neurofeedback
- Sensory/motor integration therapy
- References
- 11. The role of play in individual psychotherapy from childhood to adolescence
- Organization of chapter 11
- Play
- A theory of psychotherapy
- The complexity underlying feeling, thinking, and behavior
- The storage and organization of experience : memory
- Changes in memory : learning
- Learning and psychotherapy
- A discussion of psychodynamic theory, psychotherapy, and play
- Psychodynamic theories of the mind
- A theory of psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy and play
- Practical aspects of play therapy
- Parents and play therapy
- 12. Costs of treatment : money, energy, and time
- Organization of chapter 12
- Your financial costs for treatment
- The financial costs of psychotherapy
- The financial costs of medications
- Your energy and time costs in treatment
- Costs for non-treatment : personal and community perspectives
- Personal costs of non-treatment
- Society's costs of non-treatment
- Appendix : self-help resources
- General books on parenting
- Specific problem/symptom focused books
- Other books on children's mental health problems
- Meditation/relaxation CDs for children and adolescents
- Magazines
- Internet
- Topic focused groups.