The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology: A Contextual Approach

by Alan Carr

The third edition of the hugely successful Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a reliable and accessible resource for clinical psychologists. Beginning with a set of general conceptual frameworks for practice, the book gives specific guidance on the management of problems commonly encountered in clinical work with children and adolescents drawing on the best practice in the fields of clinical psychology and family therapy. In six sections thorough and comprehensive coverage of the following areas is provided:

Frameworks for practice





Problems of infancy and early childhood





Problems of middle childhood





Problems of adolescence





Child abuse





Adjustment to major life transitions



Thoroughly updated throughout, each chapter dealing with specific clinical problems includes cases examples and detailed discussion of diagnosis, classification, epidemiology and clinical features. New material includes the latest advances in: child and adolescent clinical psychology; developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology; assessment and treatment programmes. This book is invaluable as both a reference work for experienced practitioners and as an up-to-date, evidence-based practice manual for clinical psychologists in training.

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology is one of a set of 3 books published by Routledge which includes The Handbook of Adult Clinical Psychology: An Evidence Based Practice Approach, Second Edition (Edited by Carr & McNulty) and The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice (Edited by Alan Carr, Christine Linehan, Gary O'Reilly, Patricia Noonan Walsh and John McEvoy).

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Reference, Textbooks

1044 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 18, 1999

About the author

Professor Alan Carr, BA, MA, PhD, Reg Psychol FPsI, C Psychol FBPsS, Reg FTAI, ECP, has a personal chair in clinical psychology at University College Dublin, where he is Head of the School of Psychology (2012-2015) and director of the doctoral programme in clinical psychology. He also has a clinical practice at the Clanwilliam Institute, Dublin.

http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/psy...

Reviews

[Brigo · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the first book where I have seen my name in it. Weirdly it was in a family tree showing the heritability of depression.

[Iselin]

Not a bad book at all. But it’s so long and there’s so much repetative information. Interesting though!

[Sylvester · Rating 5 out of 5]

A comprehensive handbook on the common disorders present in children and adolescents. It is formatted chronologically provided clear information on the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and aetiology for each condition.

[Anders Brabaek · Rating 2 out of 5]

Much but poorly structured, and repetitive information.