Overview
- Examines a broad range of topics relating to children's social behaviors and skills
- Explores effects of numerous behavioral disorders and problems on children's social skills excesses and deficits
- Addresses issues relating to adaptive and challenging behaviors and how to observe and record social skills
- Describes various training models (e.g., social learning, parent and peer treatments, self-control methods, and curricula)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- ABA and social skills in children
- ADHD and social skills
- Anxiety disorders and social skills
- Applied Behavioral Analysis and social skills
- Autism spectrum disorder and social behavior
- Bipolar disorder, psychosis, and social skills
- Challenging behaviors and social skills
- Chronic disease and social skills
- Comorbidity and adaptive behavior deficits
- Conduct disorders and social skills
- Depression and social behavior
- Differential diagnosis and social skills
- Intellectual disabilities and adaptive social skills
- Operant conditioning and social skills
- Parent and peer training in social skills
- School curricula and social skills
- Self-control and social skills in children
- Self-injury and children
- Social skills group programs for children
- Social skills assessment and treatment
About this book
Topics featured in the Handbook include:
- Current research and practical strategies for promoting children’s social and emotional competence in schools.
- Social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder.
- Intellectual disabilities and their effect on social skills.
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its effect on the development of social skills in children.
- Evidence-based methods of dealing with social difficulties in conduct disorder.
The Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Social Behavior and Skills in Children
Editors: Johnny L. Matson
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64592-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64591-9Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87829-4Published: 29 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64592-6Published: 17 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 390
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Pediatrics, Social Work