Martin Herbert

Updated and new, this practice text has both US and UK authors of distinction. It targets working with children and their families in the context of their daily lives - in their homes, families, and communities. The authors use a problem-solving approach to provide helping strategies for a variety of problems and problem behaviors that occur in families. Professors Harper-Dorton and Herbert take into account current pressures for short-term care, attention to measuring outcomes, family permanency, and various family structures and support systems that include mentoring and empowering families for their lifelong journey in their communities and homes. This latest edition retains the merits of the earlier editions but is enhanced by expanded coverage of cross-cultural issues, family mentoring, and problems specific to adolescence.

Written for those who work with parents, adolescents, and children in various family contexts, this book describes the practical process of assessment and intervention which can lead to empowering individual families and improving their quality of life.

A practical guide designed for all practitioners who work with children and their families which aims to provide concise, up-to-date information on children's problems.

A practical guide designed for all practitioners who work with children and their families which aims to provide concise, up-to-date informationon children's problems.

A practical guide designed for all practitioners who work with children and their families, with the aim of providing concise, up-to date information on children's problems.

A practical guide designed for all practitioners who work with children and their families providing concise, up-to-date information on children's problems.

A practical guide designed for all practitioners who work with children and their families which aims to provide concise, up-to-date information on children's problems.

A practical guide designed for all practitioners who work with children and their families which aims to provide concise, up-to-date information on children's problems.

A practical guide designed for practitioners who work with children and their families which aims to provied concise up-to-date information on children's problems.

A practical guide designed for practitioners who work with children and their families which aim to provide concise, up-to-date information on children's problems.

Some families are dangerous environments. Most practitioners in social work, child protection, and hospital and community medicine, as well as the police, will know from their professional experience the extent of spouse abuse, child abuse, sibling violence and maltreatment of the elderly within the family setting. Understanding family violence is the first step towards prevention. This book deals with the nature and causes of abuse within the family, with its prediction and assessment, and with methods for intervention and prevention. Reflecting the research evidence of cycles of violence and maltreatment, the book is organized as a progressive analysis of abuse of spouses, children, siblings, parents and family elders. The authors are both well known for their academic and professional work with families, and have written this book for professionals requiring a research- and evidence-based (rather than anecdotal) guide to the problems of family violence and to the best practice in related intervention work with families and couples. This book is published in the Wiley Series in Family Psychology edited by Neil Frude, University of Wales, Cardiff.

A practical guide designed for all practitioners who work with children and their families which aims to provide concise up-to-date information on children's problems.

This book covers all aspects of children's feeding problems such as behavioural problems at mealtime, finicky eating and the appetite of the child. It then goes on to look at some of the problems associated with bedtime battles such as nightime fears and worries.

The aims of this guide are to provide the practitioner with the means to assess parental bonding and infantile attachments. A description of infantile attachments, a look at contentious issues, evidence for and against the 'critical period' and a proforma to describe and rate parental attachments are included.

This guide provides the practitioner with an introduction to the use of behavioural methods in order to alleviate childhood behaviour problems. The book includes photocopiable material to give to parents as handouts, to be used as preliminaries to planning a programme for the child's behaviour problem(s).

This guide is specifically about the assessment of children in need and includes the issue of abuse and the need for special eduaction and care. A guide to the meaning of 'significance of harm' as defined in the Children Act 1989, is also outlined.

Approximately two-thirds of all children referred to mental health agencies are labeled conduct-disordered. Typically such children exhibit antisocial behavior -- lying, cheating, stealing, firesetting, fighting, oppositional behavior and noncompliance to parental requests -- at abnormal rates. Troubled Families -- Problem Children helps the mental-health clinician understand the most effective "therapeutic processes" for supporting families who have children with conduct disorders. Help for these families is particularly urgent as the children are not only at increased risk of abuse by their parents but are more likely to be involved in school dropout, alcoholism, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, etc., and also to suffer from poor physical health. From the Foreword by Thomas Ollendick "What sets this book apart from others of its genre is its careful attention to, and elucidation of, the 'collaborative process' in working with these oppositional, defiant, and conduct-disordered children and their families." "Webster-Stratton and Herbert do not just talk about troubled families and problem children; rather, they bring them to us in rich and graphic detail." "Troubled Families -- Problem Children is an outstanding and scholarly contribution to the field."