This volume provides practicing clinicians and researchers with an update on treatments found to be effective in pediatric psychology as well as those that are emerging in the field and have promise of being proven effective as additional research is conducted. Several chapters contain descriptions of different treatment protocols as well as specific scripts for certain procedures. These materials will be useful to clinicians in their day-to-day practice and clincial researchers in implementing and/or developing research protocols. Leading pediatric psychology intervention researchers generously provide details of their treatments for a number of pediatric problems. This book provides a means by which treatment manuals and related data on the outcomes of interventions can be disseminated to practicing pediatric psychologists and to investigators. Readers can gain access to treatment protocols developed by leading pediatric psychology researchers at a website specifically developed for this book. Readers may use these manuals in clinical work or contact the manual developers if interested in using/adapting the manuals for research protocols. This website will be updated with additional treatment manuals for problems encountered in the practice of pediatric psychology.
Introduction and Overview
Part 1: Treatment Research and Practice
1: Effective treatments in pediatric psychology
2: Treatment manuals and clinical practice
Part 2: Intervention approaches
3: Individual therapies
4: Multi-person and systemic interventions
Part 3Common topics in pediatric psychology intervention
5: Pain
6: Adherence
Part 4: Interventions for specific disorders
7: Nocturnal Enuresis
8: Encopresis
9: Sleep problems in young children
Part 5: Promising interventions for specific disorders
10: Cystic Fibrosis
Anthony Spirito, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Brown Medical School; Director, Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium, USA, and Anne E Kazak, Professor and Director of Psychology Research, Department of Paediatrics, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Department of Psychology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Deputy Director, Behavioral Health Center, The Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, USA
Anne E Kazak, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor and Director of Psychology Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Department of Psychology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Director of the Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress at CHOP. Additionally, she serves as Deputy Director of the Behavioural Health Center at CHOP. Dr Kazak is the current Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. She is the current President-Elect of the Society of Pediatric Psychology.
Anthony Spirito, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Director of the Clinical Psychology Training Consortium at Brown University. He is Past President of the Society for Pediatric Psychology and was Action Editor for the Journal of Pediatric Psychology's series on Empirically Supported Treatments.