Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour: A Guide for Practitioners Working with Parents and Foster Parents - Softcover

Herbert, Martin; Wookey, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470849452 ISBN 13: 9780470849453

Verlag: Wiley, 2004

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Managing Children's Disruptive Behavior is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals and parents who care for children whose behavior problems are beyond those encountered normally. Arranged in three parts, the book opens by setting out the theoretical background to conduct disorders in a range of settings. Part Two discusses issues in assessment and treatment and explains the background to the 'Child-Wise' programs devised by the authors. Four versions of the Child-Wise program follow, complete with useful materials for evaluation and homework purposes.

This flexible set of resources has been designed for use with children aged between 2 and 10 years and includes versions for use: in group settings; at home; in the classroom; with typical and special needs children. Devised for use by a wide range of professionals, the programmes reduce fraught interactions and restore mutually enjoyable relationships between the carer/parent and the child. There are also further resources available to download from a supporting website.

Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour is an invaluab le tool for psychologists, health visitors, social workers, teachers, and all those whose work involves children and their carers.

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Martin Herbert is Emeritus Professor at Exeter University. He was previously Director of the School of Social Work and Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester. He later joined the National Health Service full time and was in charge of the mental health service for children in Plymouth. This post was succeeded by a move to Exeter where he directed the doctoral course in clinical psychology as Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology. He was appointed to the Consultant Clinical Psychologist post in the Child and Adolescent Department at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Healthcare Trust. He now specialises in personal injury psycho-legal work. He has published books and journal articles on various topics dealing with the psychological problems of children, adolescents and adults. His latest is Typical and Atypical Development: From Conception to Adolescence (2003). Many of his books have been translated into European and Asian languages. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

Jenny Wookey is a consultant clinical psychologist at the Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and also honorary tutor and supervisor on the Clinical Doctoral Course at Exeter University. She has had many years of working with adults in GP surgeries and with parents and children at the Plymouth Child Development Centre. She previously worked in an adultmental health and primary care setting. Her special interests include developmental disability and young children with behaviour problems. In recent years she has worked with Professor Martin Herbert researching and conducting parent training programmes.

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Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour is a comprehensive guide designed for professionals and parents who care for children whose behaviour problems are beyond those encountered normally. Arranged in three parts, the book opens by setting out the theoretical background to conduct disorders in a range of settings. Part Two discusses issues in assessment and treatment and explains the background to the 'Child-Wise' programmes devised by the authors. Four versions of the Child-Wise programme follow, complete with useful materials for evaluation and homework purposes.

This flexible set of resources has been designed for use with children aged between 2 and 10 years and includes versions for use: in group settings; at home; in the classroom; with typical and special needs children. Devised for use by a wide range of professionals, the programmes reduce fraught interactions and restore mutually enjoyable relationships between the carer/parent and the child. There are also further resources available to download from a supporting website

Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour is an invaluab le tool for psychologists, health visitors, social workers, teachers, and all those whose work involves children and their carers.

This flexible set of resources has been designed for use with children aged between 2 and 10 years and includes versions for use: in group settings; at home; in the classroom; with typical and special needs children. Devised for use by a wide range of professionals, the programmes reduce fraught interactions and restore mutually enjoyable relationships between the carer/parent and the child. There are also further resources available to download from a supporting website

Managing Children's Disruptive Behaviour is an invaluab le tool for psychologists, health visitors, social workers, teachers, and all those whose work involves children and their carers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470849452
• ISBN 13: 9780470849453
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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