商品簡介
The recognition that children can evince a range of psychopathology (e.g., depression and anxiety) - coupled with expanding definitions and increasing attention to common childhood disorders (e.g., autism, learning disability, and ADHD) - have rapidly enhanced the scope of services for children, and, consequently, for journals and books devoted to issues of clinical importance. Social skills excesses and deficits have recently been recognized as a core area for assessment and treatment for all of the topics just mentioned. Furthermore, social behavior has proved amenable to evidence-based clinical procedures. The tremendous interest in the topic is nowhere more evident than a recent review paper which identifies 48 psychometrically based tests for social skills in children. The amount of treatment-based research for social skills in children is equally impressiveThe rapidly expanding literature in child assessment and intervention accounts for the proliferation of specialty journals such as Clinical Psychology Review, which publish only review papers. The popularity of such works is largely due to the inability of graduate students, clinicians, and researchers to keep up with a rapidly expanding field. However, a journal cannot provide the in-depth review and analysis of a book. The timing for a comprehensive book on children's social skills has, therefore, arrived. This book fills an important niche in the market, pertaining to major resource volumes.
作者簡介
Johnny L. Matson, Ph.D., Professor and Distinguished Research Master and Director of the Ph.D. program in clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. He is the author of more than 450 publications, including 34 books. In addition, he is the editor-in-chief of two research journals, Research in Developmental Disabilities and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. He has served as an expert for the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, and is past president of the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Division of the American Psychological Association. His research and clinical interests are in autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disabilities.
