Child and Adolescent Behavioural Problems

Carole Sutton is Head of The Centre for the Study of Parent Training based at the Department of Health and Community Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

"If doctors understood even a fraction of this book, they would be better able to communicate with their colleagues in psychology ans social work!"--Peter Campion, Family Practice, Vol 19, 2002

• List of tables and figures. Acknowledgements.Introduction.Part I: The Challenges of Helping Children in a Multidisciplinary Context.Chapter 1: Children's emotional and behavioural difficulities: nature, prevalence and origins.Chapter 2: Multidisciplinary practice: the context and challenges of working together.Part II: Theory and Practice.Chapter 3: Key theoretical concepts.Chapter 4: Engaging with families: issues relevant to all disciplines.Part III: ASPIRE: A Process for Intervention.Chapter 5: Assessment of children's emotional and behavioural difficulities: a multidisciplinary approach.Chapter 6: Issues of planning, implementation, review and evaluation.Part IV: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Preventing Children's Difficulties.Chapter 7: Infants and their families: multidisciplinary approaches.Chapter 8: Toddlers and pre-school children: multidisciplinary approaches.Chapter 9: Children at their first schools: multidisciplinary approaches.Chapter 10: Children at their secondary schools: multidisciplinary approaches.Chapter 11: Young offenders: multidisciplinary approaches.Chapter 12: Summary of key ideas and ways forward.Appendices.References.Index.