Childhood Psychological Disorders (eBook, PDF)

Current Controversies
Redaktion: Ph. D., Alberto M. Bursztyn

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible, informative book will help teachers, parents, and practitioners make sense of current issues and controversies surrounding childhood disabilities. Childhood Psychological Disorders: Current Controversies was compiled to disentangle controversial issues, contributing to a fuller understanding of the needs of children with disabilities and the families raising them. The book focuses on emotional, social, and behavioral concerns such as the psychological dimensions of childhood disability. Specific, topical essays highlight the current state of knowledge and the nature of opposing arguments among specialists in various disciplines. The book opens with a consideration of the historical and social context of child disability, addressing the evolution of disability concepts and the changing nature of disability as a social/cultural phenomenon. Disability's impact on the family system and schools is explored, too, from the vantage point of educators, children, and their parents and siblings. Subsequent chapters examine such diagnoses as pediatric bipolar disorder, autism, the educational label Emotionally Handicapped/Disturbed (EH/D), food allergies and related disorders, and Gender Identity Disorder (GID).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313064067
• Artikelnr.: 37831460

Autorenporträt

Alberto M. Bursztyn, PhD, is professor of school psychology and special education at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: What Is Disability? Alberto
M. Bursztyn 1. Parents, Children with Disabilities, and Social Integration
Alberto M. Bursztyn 2. Understanding Childhood Disabilities through
Culturally Diverse Families' Perspectives Yoon-Joo Lee and Alberto M.
Bursztyn 3. Conflicts and Confusion: Current Understandings of Early Onset
Bipolar Disorder Elizabeth M. Scanlon 4. Persistent Questions about
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Dana Freed 5. Autism Spectrum
Disorders: Current Thinking on Etiology and Diagnosis Jeanne Angus 6.
Nurturing Development: Treating Young Children with Autism Spectrum
Disorder Carol Korn-Bursztyn 7. Who Is the Real Emotionally Disturbed
Child? Harold Golubtchik 8. When Schools Fail: Alternative Therapeutic and
Educational Settings for Youths with Severe Emotional and Behavioral
Challenges Jennifer Foster 9. The Impact of Food Allergies on Social and
Emotional Development Suzanne Huber 10. Debates Surrounding Childhood
Gender Identity Disorder Eliza A. Dragowski, María R. Scharrón-del Río, and
Amy L. Sandigorsky 11. Disabilities, Families, and Schools Alberto M.
Bursztyn Index About the Editor and Contributors