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Alan Carr provides a comprehensive, thorough and practical guide to modern child and adolescent psychology. TheHandbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychologycovers all central concerns for practitioners in a single manual, including: conduct problems, emotional problems, learning disabilities, child protection, somatic illness, major depression, suicide, drug abuse, schizophrenia, divorce, foster care and bereavement. It will be essential reading for child and adolescent clinical psychologists, and valuable to many professionals in training, including educational psychologists, counselling psychologists, health psychologists, child psychotherapists, family therapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, counsellors and child care workers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations (p. ix)
• Foreword (p. xviii)
• Preface (p. xix)
• Acknowledgements (p. xxii)
• Section I Frameworks for practice (p. 1)
• 1 Normal development (p. 3)
• 2 Influences on problem development (p. 34)
• 3 Classification, epidemiology and treatment effectiveness (p. 65)
• 4 The consultation process and intake interviews (p. 88)
• 5 Report writing (p. 140)
• Section II Problems of infancy and early childhood (p. 169)
• 6 Sleep problems (p. 171)
• 7 Toileting problems (p. 200)
• 8 Learning and communication difficulties (p. 229)
• 9 Autism and pervasive developmental disorders (p. 289)
• Section III Problems of middle childhood (p. 313)
• 10 Conduct problems (p. 315)
• 11 Attention and overactivity problems (p. 368)
• 12 Fear and anxiety problems (p. 403)
• 13 Repetition problems (p. 469)
• 14 Somatic problems (p. 501)
• Section IV Problems in adolescence (p. 575)
• 15 Drug abuse (p. 577)
• 16 Mood problems (p. 621)
• 17 Anorexia and bulimia nervosa (p. 675)
• 18 Schizophrenia (p. 706)
• Section V Child abuse (p. 749)
• 19 Physical abuse (p. 751)
• 20 Emotional abuse and neglect (p. 782)
• 21 Sexual abuse (p. 806)
• Section VI Adjustment to major life transitions (p. 857)
• 22 Foster care (p. 859)
• 23 Separation and divorce (p. 880)
• 24 Grief and bereavement (p. 911)
• Bibliography (p. 942)
• Index (p. 995)

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CHOICE Review

Carr provides information about the concerns of practitioners: conduct and emotional problems, learning disabilities, protection, suicide, schizophrenia, foster care, bereavement, divorce, major depression, and somatic illness. Three sections treat the common problem of childhood and adolescence and include assessment and management guidelines. Separate sections cover abuse and neglect and problems during major life transitions, identified as foster care, divorce, and bereavement. The book ends with an extensive 51-page bibliography. After information concerning "normal" development, other chapters describe classifying and consulting, interviewing, and report writing. Figures, tables, and cases give insight into diagnosing problems and their treatment. Those interested only in clinical psychology for children might find more useful the forthcoming third edition of The Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology, ed. by C. Eugene Walker and Michael C Roberts. This is the only title now available that covers clinical psychology for all young people, children, and adolescents. Unfortunately, Kenneth W. Merrell's Assessment of Behavioral, Emotional and Social Problems: Direct and Objective Methods for Use with Children and Adolescents (1994) is out of print and now dated. For additional depth in these areas and currency in research, methods, and theory, libraries might subscribe to Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, a highly regarded annual publication that presents salient information on many aspects of child psychology. M. S. Lary; North Georgia College & State University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Alan Carr is Director of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology at University College Dublin, Ireland