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Clinical Handbook of Psychological Consultation in Pediatric Medical Settings

  • Examines roles, models, and configurations of pediatric psychology practice in diverse inpatient and outpatient medical settings
  • Details systems factors unique in various settings
  • Reviews major pediatric conditions encountered in consultation practice
  • Describes basic steps and skills for managing referrals, conducting problem-focused assessments, and planning intervention strategies in social and medical care settings

Part of the book series: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology (ICCP)

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychology: Models, Roles, Settings, and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Pediatric Consultation-Liaison: Models and Roles in Pediatric Psychology

      • Bryan D. Carter, Kevin K. Tsang, Christine E. Brady, Kristin A. Kullgren
      Pages 11-24
    3. Systems Issues and Considerations

      • Deirdre A. L. Caplin, Laura M. Bennett-Murphy, Anne E. Kazak
      Pages 25-35
    4. Medical Subspecialty Clinic Consultation-Liaison

      • Dawn Dore-Stites, Jennifer Butcher
      Pages 51-61
    5. Models of Consultation in Primary Care Settings

      • Lisa Y. Ramirez, Brittany R. Myers, Terry Stancin
      Pages 63-74
    6. A Short Course in Medicine for the Consulting Pediatric Psychologist: Essential Knowledge for the Nonphysician Clinician

      • Brooke Threlkeld, Kristie V. Schultz, Michael K. Sowell, Sara Multerer
      Pages 75-87
    7. Collaborating with Psychosocial Colleagues in the Hospital Setting

      • Amanda L. Thompson, Megan Connolly
      Pages 89-99
    8. Collaborating with Child Psychiatry

      • Hillary S. Blake, Amy E. Williams, Julianne Giust, Ann M. Lagges
      Pages 101-111
    9. Consultation-Liaison Psychologists’ Role in Medical Education

      • Crystal Cederna-Meko, Rebecca Ellens
      Pages 113-124
    10. Assessment in Pediatric Psychology Consultation-Liaison

      • Dana Albright, Teryn Bruni, William Kronenberger
      Pages 125-136
  3. Clinical Conditions and Interventions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. The Problem of Pain: Acute Pain and Procedures

      • Nicole E. MacKenzie, Perri R. Tutelman, Christine T. Chambers
      Pages 139-153
    3. The Problem of Pain: Chronic Pain

      • Emily Foxen-Craft, Amy E. Williams, Eric L. Scott
      Pages 155-167
    4. Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders

      • Sara E. Williams, Nicole E. Zahka, Kristin A. Kullgren
      Pages 169-181
    5. Rumination Syndrome

      • Anthony Alioto, Kira S. Branch
      Pages 183-194
    6. Organic Gastrointestinal Disorders

      • Michele H. Maddux, Amanda D. Deacy, Jennifer M. Colombo
      Pages 195-210
    7. Eating Disorders and Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

      • Kevin K. Tsang, Lillian C. Hayes, Chrissy Cammarata
      Pages 211-226

About this book

This handbook examines pediatric consultation-liaison psychology in pediatric medical settings. It offers a brief history of pediatric psychologists’ delivery of consultation-liaison services. The handbook provides an overview of roles, models, and configurations of pediatric psychology practice in diverse inpatient and outpatient medical settings. Chapters discuss the most frequently seen major pediatric conditions encountered in consultation practice. Coverage includes evaluation, intervention, and treatment of each condition. Each clinical condition addresses the referral problem in the context of history and family dynamics. In addition, chapters address important aspects of the management of a consultation-liaison service and provide contextual issues in delivering evidence-based services in hospital and medical settings.

Topics featured in this handbook include:

  • The role of assessment in the often fast-paced medical environment.
  • Modificationsof approaches in the context of disorders of development.
  • Consultation on pediatric gender identity.
  • The presentation of child maltreatment in healthcare settings.
  • The use of technological innovations in pediatric psychological consultation.
  • Important ethical considerations in consultation-liaison practice.

Clinical Handbook of Psychological Consultation in Pediatric Medical Settings is a must-have resource for clinicians and related professionals as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in pediatric and clinical child and adolescent psychology, pediatrics, social work, developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, and related disciplines.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service, Norton Children’s Hospital, Louisville, USA

    Bryan D. Carter

  • Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville, School of Medicine, Louisville, USA

    Bryan D. Carter

  • Department of Pediatrics, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, USA

    Kristin A. Kullgren

About the editors

Bryan D. Carter, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Louisville School of Medicine. He is the Service Chief of the Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service to Norton Children’s Hospital (formerly Kosair Children’s Hospital) and Director of Training for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pediatric Psychology with the University of Louisville SOM. Dr. Carter received his Ph.D. in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Virginia, predoctoral residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, and postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine. He is a recipient of the Carolyn D. Schroeder Clinical Practice Award given by American Psychological Association Division 54 (Society of Pediatric Psychology) for nationally recognized excellence, innovation and leadership in the clinical practice of pediatric psychology and was co-founder of the Consultation-Liaison Special Interest Group for Division 54.  He is the developer of the Children’s Health & Illness Recovery Program (CHIRP) and senior author of the CHIRP Clinician Handbook and CHIRP Teen and Family Workbook (Oxford University Press Treatments That Work series), a manualized treatment program for maximizing functional independence in adolescents coping with the challenges of chronic illness. Dr. Carter has published numerous scientific articles and book chapters related to his interests in pediatric psychology, CL and chronic pediatric illness and injury. 

Kristin A. Kullgren, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan School of Medicine and C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kullgren is also a faculty member in the University of Michigan Center for Human Growth and Development. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Georgia State University, her pre-doctoral internship inPediatric Psychology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Kullgren is the director of the pediatric psychology consultation-liaison service at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kullgren is the past co-chair of the Consultation-Liaison Special Interest Group for Division 54. She has published numerous scientific articles and book chapters on consultation-liaison practice and the impact of chronic illness on youth and families.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Clinical Handbook of Psychological Consultation in Pediatric Medical Settings

  • Editors: Bryan D. Carter, Kristin A. Kullgren

  • Series Title: Issues in Clinical Child Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35598-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35597-5Published: 21 March 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35600-2Published: 21 March 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35598-2Published: 20 March 2020

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0471

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 529

  • Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Child and School Psychology, Pediatrics, Social Work

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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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