Clinical Guide to Toilet Training Children

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the universal issue of toilet training in children and explores issues that need to be considered by clinicians and other professionals. The book begins with a historical overview of the field, including origins and reviews of current practices.  It discusses various toileting problems and their side effects, risk factors, normal developmental milestones in toileting, and theories of toileting. Chapters identify behavior problems (e.g., self-injury, noncompliance) as well as medical conditions (e.g., diabetes, constipation) that can affect continence, with proven strategies for addressing these challenges in toilet training children, including those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The book concludes with a discussion of the strengths of current toilet training practices as well as suggestions for areas where continued improvement is required.

Topics featured in this book include:

·         Complications and side effects associated with the lack of toileting skills.

·         Technology used in toilet training.

·         Applications of operant-based behavioral principles to toilet training.

·         Toilet training strategies involving modeling and modifications of the physical environment.

The Clinical Guide to Toilet Training Children is a must-have resource for researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, pediatrics, family studies, developmental psychology, nursing, social work, and behavioral therapy/rehabilitation.

• Anxiety and toilet training
• Applied behavior analysis (ABA) and toilet training
• Biochemistry and toilet training
• Challenging behaviors and toilet training
• Classical conditioning and toilet training
• Constipation and toilet training
• Core continence strategies and toilet training
• Developmental milestones and toilet training
• Diet and toilet training
• Encopresis and toilet training
• Enuresis and toilet training
• Low self-esteem and toilet training
• Operant conditioning and toilet training
• Parent interventions and toilet training
• Pharmacology and toilet training
• Social learning and toilet training
• Technology and toilet training
• Temper tantrums and toilet training
• Toilet training and children with disabilities

• Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

  Johnny L. Matson

Johnny L. Matson, Ph.D., is Professor and Distinguished Research Master in the Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University (LSU). Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology (Clinical) at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of more than 800 publications, including 42 books. He is major professor to more than 60 Ph.D.s and is editor-in-chief of the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

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