Treating Problem Children
Issues, Methods and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 24. June 1988
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-8039-8152-2 (ISBN)
Description
Treating Problem Children provides a comprehensive view of children's problems and how they can be treated. The authors present an integrated approach in language that is readily accessible to professional and lay people alike. Although there is a huge and complex industry concerned with the treatment of children's problems, its hallmarks are lack of focus, poor accountability and often uncertain or damaging outcomes. The authors of this volume, who between them have spent several decades working with disturbed children, aim to remedy this. They show that it is possible to develop a comprehensive discipline for the practice of treatment which views a child as an integrated whole rather than as a collection of problems to be dealt with piecemeal by physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and social workers.
Reviews / Votes
`Succeeds in condensing an enormous field without losing clarity or detail where necessary, and gives copious references for further reading and information on each section. I am sure that it will have wide appeal across the whole spectrum of child and family-oriented workers' - The British Journal of Psychiatry`The concept of the book is admirable, the review of treatment methods scholarly and the Master Code is both extensive and yet succinct. It is hoped that the book will find its way into every staffroom of social services assessment centres, schools for the emotionally and behaviourally disturbed and community homes with education. Indeed it should be thumbed through at every treatment review... a most useful contribution to the literature' - BPS Division of Educational and Child Psychology Newsletter
`very comprehensive and eclectic... it is systematic and provides a very good introduction to the field. A serious attempt is made to describe viable methods of analysis of children's problems and to apprise carers of the complete range of therapies available to them. The book will become, as it deserves to be, an essential working tool for many practitioners in the field' - Educational Psychology
`This ambitious attempt to articulate and demonstrate in a single text the value of a comprehensive, holistic, humane approach to the `problem child' is laudable... Throughout this book, Hoghughi and his associates manifest obvious concern, compassion, even passion, for the welfare of the troubled child and the crucial ethical responsibilities of those involved in treating the child' - Child & Family Behavior Therapy
`A stimulating and readable book, which might well form the basis of a post-registration course of study' - Nursing Textbook Review
`offers some interesting concepts... the master treatment code is a promising approach to changing clinical practice and is the unique feature of the book' - Contemporary Psychology
More details
Person
Masud Hoghughi is Director of Aycliffe Centre for Children, County Durham and Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Hull. He is the author of Troubled and Troublesome (1978) and The Delinquent (1983) and co-author of Assessing Problem Children (1980) and Treating Problem Children (1988).
Content
PART ONE: ISSUES IN TREATMENT
The Idea of Treatment
Approaches to Treatment
Resources for Treatment
The Practice of Treatment
PART TWO: METHODS OF TREATMENT
Delivery of Goods and Services
Physical Methods
Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Methods
Talking Therapies
Group Therapies
Environmental Therapies
PART THREE: THE MASTER CODE
The Idea of Treatment
Approaches to Treatment
Resources for Treatment
The Practice of Treatment
PART TWO: METHODS OF TREATMENT
Delivery of Goods and Services
Physical Methods
Behaviour Therapy
Cognitive Methods
Talking Therapies
Group Therapies
Environmental Therapies
PART THREE: THE MASTER CODE