Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A Strengths-Based ApproachISBN: 978-0-470-37139-8
Paperback
384 pages
September 2009
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- Focuses on multi-professional collaboration on behalf of medically compromised youth--from infancy through adolescence.
- Includes contributions from specialists from across the helping fields--including doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, social workers, doctor of divinity--to support the inter-professional collaborative perspective.
- Offers a strength -perspective, emphasizing what the child/youth can do, despite the illness/disability
- Grounded in a solid understanding of child and adolescent development
- Deals with the impact of the illness on the family system
- Offers a range of psychosocial interventions, including work with the individual child/adolescent, group approaches, and family interventions
- Chapters include case examples, photos, and figures to support the concepts and every chapter ends with discussion questions and role play exercises.
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