Overview
- Traces the history of psychological theories and treatments for children with developmental disabilities (DDs)
- Addresses informed consent as well as monitoring safety and effectiveness in treating children with DDs
- Examines such treatments as applied behavior analysis (ABA), cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and pharmacotherapy
- Explores the effects of developmental disorders and behavior problems on academic achievement
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Academic skills and developmental disorders
- ADHD and anxiety treatments and children
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and children
- Autism interventions and children
- Bipolar disorder and children
- Childhood psychopathology and evidence-based treatments
- Cognition, memory, and developmental disorders
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and children
- Developmental disabilities and children
- Ethics and childhood developmental disabilities
- Fears and phobias during childhood
- Informed consent and childhood developmental disabilities
- Mood disorders during childhood
- Parent training and developmental disabilities
- Pharmacology and children
- Physical and developmental during childhood
- Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and children
- Self-regulation and developmental disorders
- Social skills and developmental disorders
- Social skills interventions and developmental disabilities
About this book
Topicsfeatured in this handbook include:
- An introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis.
- Parent training interventions.
- Treatment strategies for depression in youth.
- Assessment and treatment of self-injurious behaviors in children with DD.Â
- Treatment approaches to aggression and tantrums in children with DD.
- Interventions for children with eating and feeding disorders.Â
The Handbook of Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Treatment is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, child and adolescent psychiatry, and special education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Johnny L. Matson, Ph.D., is Professor and Distinguished Research Master in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A. He has also previously held a professorship in psychiatry and clinical psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of more than 800 publications including 41 books. He served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the journals Research in Developmental Disabilities (Elsevier) and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Elsevier) and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Springer).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Treatment
Editors: Johnny L. Matson
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71210-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71209-3Published: 13 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10027-8Published: 09 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71210-9Published: 14 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 429
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Pediatrics, Social Work