Psychology

Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health And Development Disorders Of Infancy and Early Childhood: DC:0-3R

Published in 1994, ZERO TO THREE’s Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC:0–3) was the first developmentally based system for diagnosing mental health and developmental disorders in infants and toddlers. Its diagnostic categories reflected the consensus of a multidisciplinary group of experts in early childhood development and mental health.

Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, Revised (DC:0-3R) draws on empirical research and clinical practice that have occurred worldwide since 1994. DC: 0-3R is designed to help mental health and other professionals

*Recognize mental health and developmental challenges in young children, *Understand how relationships and environmental factors contribute to mental health and developmental disorders, *Use diagnostic criteria effectively for classification and intervention, *Work more effectively with parents and other professionals to develop effective treatment plans.

The revised DC:0–3R *Provides clear and specific criteria for all diagnostic categories; *Explains criteria for identifying Autistic Spectrum Disorders in children as young as 2; *Introduces new criteria for disorders of sleep, eating, and relating and communicating; *Clarifies the Parent–Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale; *Includes checklists for identifying relationship problems and psychosocial and environmental stressors.

DC: 0–3R enhances your ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat mental health problems in the earliest years by identifying and describing disorders not addressed in other classification systems and by pointing the way to effective intervention approaches.

Mental health clinicians, counselors, physicians, nurses, early interventionists, early childhood educators, and researchers will find DC: 0-3R to be an indispensable guide to evaluation and treatment planning with infants, toddlers, and their families in a wide range of settings.

Functional Behavioral Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment: A Complete System for Education and Mental Health Settings

Professionals who work in mental health and educational settings are frequently faced with clients (children, adolescents, adults) who engage in serious problem behaviors. Such behaviors often impact the client's welfare and ability to live, work, and be educated in mainstream environments. Children and adolescents who manifest these behaviors are particularly vulnerable to these disruptions, which can have a far-reaching impact on their development and future prospects.

This practical book, written both for clinician/educators and high-level students, creates a function-based behavioral diagnostic classification system, the first of its kind, as well as treatment protocols that fit such a diagnostic system. Heavily "practitioner-oriented," the book will address the full range of behaviors--ranging from aggression, self-injury, stereotypic behavior (repetitive body movements), tantrums, and non-compliance--with real life and hypothetical cases to help clinicians think through the full range of treatment options.

Unique in moving beyond functional assessment to assessment diagnosis and treatment, this book will be highly useful for mental health clinicians, students of Advanced Behavior Analysis, and special education practitioners among others.

101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques (Child therapy series)

"Building on children's natural inclinations to pretend and reenact, play therapy is widely used in the treatment of psychological problems in childhood. 101 Favorite Play Therapy Techniques incorporates methods developed to elicit the best responses from "

Making Sense of Autism

This book, by a researcher who has been at the forefront of autism for a number of years, will draw together the theoretical and practical sides of the disorder, and will discuss, in plain and simple terms, the importance of diagnosis, intervention, and treatment.

School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems

School-Based Interventions for Students with Behavior Problems is a book about helping children and adolescents who engage in severe behaviors to positively succeed in the school setting. The emphasis of this book is on the prevention of behavior problems through structuring the instructional environment and teaching appropriate skills-and intervention to reduce problems with practical, proven, and positive procedures. This book is designed for educators faced with the daily challenge of instructing students with behavior problems, social skill deficits, and academic delays. It is designed for teachers as well as those who work with teachers and students; school administrators, counselors, special educators, and school psychologists. In searching for effective behavioral, social skill, and academic strategies, the authors have reviewed hundreds of research-validated studies to select techniques applicable to varied instructional settings within the school. The orientation and contents of this book represent the authors' experience and professional training in teaching, clinical work, and research involving students with behavior problems over the last 25 years.

Don't Hit My Mommy: A Manual For Child-parent Psychotherapy With Young Witnesses Of Family Violence

It is now widely accepted that witnessing or experiencing acts of severe interpersonal violence interferes with the mastery of age-appropriate developmental milestones and leaves children at significant risk for conduct disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression. In spite of extensive data documenting these risks, there is a dearth of intervention strategies designed to alleviate the effects of exposure to violence in the first 5 years of life.

This practical handbook offers treatment guidelines to address the behavioral and mental health problems of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers whose most intimate relationships are disrupted by the experience of violence. Practitioners from a variety of disciplines will gain an understanding of the impact of violence and will discover concrete intervention strategies to address the consequences of this experience for young children.

How Culture Shapes Social-Emotional Development: Implications for Practice in Infant-Family Program

This publication, written for child-care center program leaders and child care practitioners, examines how culture shapes children's fundamental learning about themselves, their emotions, and their way of interacting and relating to others. Recommendations for providing culturally responsive services are included, as is an explanation of cultural reciprocity (a framework for resolving cultural dilemmas). Numerous activities featuring a range of infant–family settings are provided as well.

Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment

TPBA 2 is a curriculum-based measure that professionals can use to assess children from birth to age six through the observation of natural play in four areas of development: sensorimotor, emotional and social, communication and language, and cognition.

Development in Infancy: An Introduction, Fourth Edition

This fourth edition of the best-selling topically-organized introduction to infancy reflects the enormous changes that have occurred in our understanding of infants and their place in human development over the past decade. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised to reflect current thinking and research in the field, and while classic studies continue to be cited, the text emphasizes studies published since the late 1990s.

The authors have worked to maintain the readability for which this classic textbook has been known. This edition continues to be appropriate for use in classes at all levels--undergraduate and graduate--as well as in various disciplines--psychology, education, child development, nursing, and social work.

The fourth edition features a number of improvements:
*the literature review has been thoroughly updated to reflect the results of new research;
*new figures have been provided to better explain important concepts and the results of recent studies;
*implications for practical applications and social policy have been emphasized throughout;
*the writing style has been revised to make the book attractive to students from diverse academic backgrounds; and
*orienting questions have been provided at the beginning of each chapter to facilitate understanding and learning.

Case Studies in Infant Mental Health: Risk, Resiliency, and Relationships

After briefly documenting the history of infant mental health practice as originally conceived by Selma Fraiberg, this book offers 12 real-life stories written by infant mental health specialists about their work with young children and families. Each case study also reveals the supervision and consultation that supported the specialist and the specialistÂ’s interaction with the larger service system. Discussion questions at the end of each case study guide self-reflection or group study. This is an excellent resource for trainers, educators, practitioners, and students.