Advances in Clinical Child Psychology: Volume 18 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306451433 ISBN 13: 9780306451430

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

As in past volumes, the current volume of Advances in Clinical Child Psychology strives for a broad range of timely topics on the study and treatment of children, adolescents, and families. Volume 18 includes a new array of contributions covering issues pertaining to treatment, etiol­ ogy, and psychosocial context. The first two contributions address conduct problems. Using quali­ tative research methods, Webster-Stratton and Spitzer take a unique look at what it is like to be a parent of a young child with conduct problems as well as what it is like to be a participant in a parent training program. Chamberlain presents research on residential and foster-care treatment for adolescents with conduct disorder. As these chapters well reflect, Webster-Stratton, Spitzer, and Chamberlain are all veterans of programmatic research on treatment of child and adolescent conduct problems. Wills and Filer describe an emerging stress-coping model that has been applied to adolescent substance use and is empirically well justi­ fied. This model has implications for furthering intervention strategies as well as enhancing our scientific understanding of adolescents and the development of substance abuse. Foster, Martinez, and Kulberg confront the issue that researchers face pertaining to race and ethnicity as it relates to our understanding of peer relations. This chapter addresses some of the measurement and conceptual challenges relative to assessing ethnic variables and relating these to social cognitions of peers, friendship patterns, and peer accep­ tance.

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Review

`This series has become indispensable to all clinical child psychologists and highly recommended for other child mental health professionals. The editors are again to be congratulated for persuading leading figures in diverse fields not only to summarize key developments in their chosen area but to do so authoritatively yet in a uniformly lively and readable fashion...There is something here for all developmental psychologists and child mental health professionals.'
British Journal of Developmental Psychology (1997)

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0306451433
• ISBN 13: 9780306451430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Ronald J. Prinz