4th Edition
Children in Difficulty A Guide to Understanding and Helping
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This fully updated fourth edition of Children in Difficulty explores some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties often encountered by young children and adolescents. Drawing on the latest research and with case studies throughout, chapters cover topics such as challenging behaviour and school refusal, eating disorders, anxiety and depression, substance misuse, neurodevelopmental... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The basics of being helpful 3. School refusal 4. Oppositional defiance, conduct and attachment disorders 5. Eating disorders 6. Anxiety, stress and trauma 7. Neurodevelopmental disorders and OCD 8. Disruptiveness and challenging behaviour in schools and classrooms 9. Addiction and substance misuse 10. Depression 11. Dyslexia 12. Developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia)
Biography
Julian Elliott is Principal of Collingwood College and Professor of Educational Psychology at Durham University, UK.
Maurice Place is Visiting Professor of Child and Family Psychiatry at Northumbria University, UK.
