Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Addressing themajor advancesin biomedical, psychological, social, and environmental sciences over the past decade,Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, 5th Edition, remainsthe reference of choicefor professionals in a wide range of fields, including medicine and health care, education, social service, advocacy, and public policy. This foundational, pioneering resource emphasizes children's assets and liabilities, not just categorical labels.Comprehensive in scope, it offers information and guidance on normal development and behavior, psychosocial, and biologic influences on development, developmental disorders, neurodevelopmental disabilities, and mental health conditions. It also discussestools and strategies for diagnosis and management, including new assessments that can be used in telehealth encounters. Offers ahighly practical focus, emphasizing clinical approaches to evaluation, counseling, treatment, and ongoing care. Providesnew or expanded informationon theoretical foundations of human development and behavior; trauma, adverse childhood events, and resilience across the life span; mechanisms of genetic, epigenetic, and neurological conditions; and principles of psychological assessment, including a broad array of evaluation approaches. Discussesmanagement and treatmentfor developmental and behavioral conditions, spanning common factors, cognitive behavior therapies, rehabilitative services, integrative medicine, and psychopharmacology. Containsup-to-date chapterson celebrating socio-cultural diversity and addressing racism and bias, acute stress and post-traumatic stress disorder in youth, sexuality and variation, and alternatives to restrictive guardianship. Begins each chapter with a colorful vignette that demonstrates the importance of the human dimensions of developmental-behavioral pediatrics. Offers viewpoints from aninterdisciplinary team of editors and contributors, representing developmental-behavioral pediatrics, general pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, occupational and physical therapy, speech-language pathology, and law. Provides thelatest drug informationin the updated and revised chapters on psychopharmacology. Includeskey points boxes, tables, pictures, and diagramsto clarify and enhance the text. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase.Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.