Effective and Emerging Treatments in Pediatric Psychology

Anne E Kazak, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor and Director of Psychology Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Department of Psychology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Director of the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress at CHOP. Additionally, she serves as Deputy Director of the Behavioural Health Center at CHOP. Dr Kazak is the current Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. She is the current President-Elect of the Society of Pediatric Psychology.Anthony Spirito, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Director of the Clinical Psychology Training Consortium at Brown University. He is Past President of the Society for Pediatric Psychology and was Action Editor for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology's series on Empirically Supported Treatments.

"The book does a nice job reviewing the literature of available intervention alternatives. It addresses common childhood problems and it is easy to read."--Doody's"Graduate students, clinicians, and researchers will appreciate the concise, albeit detailed, summary of the current research literature...Spirito and Kazak's book provides excellent information about empirically supported interventions for pediatric patients."--APA PsycCritiques"For the practitioner who works with children in health care settings, Effective and Emerging Treatments in Pediatric Psychology is an excellent new resource. [It] contains an enormous amount of information and material on empirically supported interventions for use with children and their parents...Graduate students, clinicians, and researchers will appreciate the concise, albeit detailed, summary of the current research literature, along withspecific intervention strategies. Practitioners will also value the authors' efforts to illustrate how many of the manualized interventions could be individualized to the developmental needs and preferences of thepatient."--APA PsycCritiques"...contains an enormous amount of information...provides excellent information about empirically supported interventions for pediatric patients."--PsycCRITIQUES"The book does a nice job reviewing the literature of available intervention alternatives. It addresses common childhood problems and it is easy to read."--Doody's"Graduate students, clinicians, and researchers will appreciate the concise, albeit detailed, summary of the current research literature...Spirito and Kazak's book provides excellent information about empirically supported interventions for pediatric patients."--APA PsycCritiques"For the practitioner who works with children in health care settings, Effective and Emerging Treatments in Pediatric Psychology is an excellent new resource. [It] contains an enormous amount of information and material on empirically supported interventions for use with children and their parents...Graduate students, clinicians, and researchers will appreciate the concise, albeit detailed, summary of the current research literature, along withspecific intervention strategies. Practitioners will also value the authors' efforts to illustrate how many of the manualized interventions could be individualized to the developmental needs and preferences of thepatient."--APA PsycCritiques"...contains an enormous amount of information...provides excellent information about empirically supported interventions for pediatric patients."--PsycCRITIQUES

• Introduction and Overview; PART 1: TREATMENT RESEARCH AND PRACTICE; 1. Effective treatments in pediatric psychology; 2. Treatment manuals and clinical practice; PART 2: INTERVENTION APPROACHES; 3. Individual therapies; 4. Multi-person and systemic interventions; COMMON TOPICS IN PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGY INTERVENTION; 5. Pain; 6. Adherence; PART 4: INTERVENTIONS FOR SPECIFIC DISORDERS; 7. Enuresis; 8. Encopresis; 9. Sleep problems in young children; PART 5: PROMISING INTERVENTIONS FOR SPECIFIC DISORDERS; 10. Cystic Fibrosis