This book provides a practical guide to, and critical review of, community and individual professional interventions that could ease the lives of children with developmental disorders and mental health problems.

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• A critical review of, and practical guide to, the interventions that could ease the lives of children with developmental disorders and mental health problems.
  
• Structured around the stages and developmental tasks in a child’s life span, from conception to teenage years.
  
• Discusses inherited disorders, intrauterine problems, neonatal and perinatal problems, early childhood attachment and physical disorders, disabilities at school, and problems associated with socialisation.
  
• Also covers problems that affect children at all ages, such as learning disabilities, abuse and various psychological and psychiatric disorders.
  
• Consistently considers the role of parents, the family, and the community in interventions.
  
• Written by a leading expert in clinical child and adolescent psychology and social work.
  
• Bridges the gap between psychosocial interventions and medically-based treatments.
  
• Can be used alongside Herbert’s Typical and Atypical Development: From Conception to Adolescence (BPS Blackwell, 2003).