Child And Adolescent Behaviour Problems - A Multidisciplinary Approach To Assessment And Intervention

Outlining the challenges of working in a multi-disciplinary context, this book provides key theoretical cocepts and describes how to conduct joint assessments and design, deliver and evaluate interventions. Taking a life-span approach to working with children of all ages from infant to adolescents, the key emphasis of the book is on the prevention of children's emotional and behavioural difficulties through effective interdisciplinary working.

Carole Sutton is Head of The Centre for the Study of Parent Training based at the Department of Health and Community Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.

1. Introduction;
Part 1: the challenges of helping children in a multi-disciplinary context: children's emotional and behavioural difficulities - nature, prevalence and origins; multi-disciplinary practice - the context and challenges of working together.

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2. Part 2: Theory and practice: key theoretical concepts; engaging with families.

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3. Part 3: ASPIRE - a process for intervention: assessment of children's emotional and behavioural difficulities - a multi-disciplinary approach; planning, implementation, review and evaluation of the plan.

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4. Part 4: Multi-disciplinary approaches to preventing children's difficulties: infants and their families; toddlers and pre-school children; children at their first schools; children at their secondary schools; young offenders; sumary of key idears and ways forward.