Intervening in children's lives : an ecological, family-centered approach to mental health care /

"Mental health interventions for children and adolescents often flow from adult clinical models that emphasize change at the individual level. Yet, to accomplish long-lasting change for children and adolescents, such services need also to consider developmental norms, the developmental status o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dishion, Thomas J., 1954-
Other Authors: Stormshak, Elizabeth A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2007]
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Child and family intervention from an ecological perspective: introduction
  • Conceptual overview
  • The ecology of development and change
  • Family and peer social interaction
  • The ecological family intervention and therapy model
  • The family check-up
  • Initial contacts that establish a collaborative set
  • Ecological assessment
  • Mobilizing change with the family check-up
  • Intervention strategies
  • Brief parenting interventions
  • Interventions with children and adolescents
  • Family management therapy
  • Parent intervention groups
  • Child and adolescent intervention groups
  • Professional and ethical considerations
  • The ecology of the child and family therapist
  • Ethical and professional standards in child and family interventions.