TDAH y Trastornos del Comportamiento en la infancia y la adolescencia

TDAH y Trastornos del Comportamiento en la infancia y la adolescencia
Author: Agustín Romero Medina
Publisher: Ediciones Pirámide
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 8436830121

Esta obra ofrece una perspectiva amplia del TDAH y de los trastornos del comportamiento. Ofrece un protocolo de tratamiento estructurado y muy práctico, PSICOHAEM-VAR, con la modalidad de padres (PSICOHAEM) y de hijos (VAR), que se puede aplicar tanto en ámbitos clínicos como escolares. El protocolo se desarrolla por sesiones de forma que los profesionales requieren poco tiempo en su preparación y pueden aplicarlo en grupo, aspectos que favorecen su uso y rentabilizan los recursos en servicios públicos. Este protocolo puede emplearse tanto en el primer tratamiento como en etapas sucesivas con el fin de mantener comportamientos adecuados tanto en los padres como en los hijos.

Pediatric Neuropsychiatry

Pediatric Neuropsychiatry
Author: C. Edward Coffey
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2006
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781751919

Pediatric Neuropsychiatry provides the most updated and clinically relevant information on psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with disturbances of brain function. Bridging the fields of psychiatry and neurology, this landmark work emphasizes the link between developmental brain biology and behavior. Major sections focus on neuropsychiatric aspects of specific psychiatric and neurologic disorders, highlighting the influence of the developing nervous system on these disorders' pathophysiology, manifestations, clinical course, treatment, and prognosis. Other sections discuss all contemporary diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Chapters include case histories, algorithms, tables, and appendices that explain the rudiments of testing.

Overcoming Autism

Overcoming Autism
Author: Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2014-03-25
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0698157435

There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children’s lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, combines her cutting-edge expertise with the everyday perspectives of Claire LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with a son with autism provides a rare window into the disorder. Together, they draw on the highly effective “pivotal response” approach developed at the center to provide concrete ways of improving the symptoms of autism and the emotional struggles that surround it, while reminding readers never to lose sight of the humor that lurks in the disability’s quirkiness or the importance of enjoying your child. From the shock of diagnosis to the step-by-step work with verbal communication, social interaction, self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and more, the answers are here-in a book that is as warm and nurturing as it is authoritative.

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology
Author: Rita Wicks-Nelson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2015-08-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317351355

Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology with DSM-5 Updates, 8/e presents students with a comprehensive, research-based introduction to understanding child and adolescent psychopathology. The authors provide a logically formatted and easy to understand text that covers the central issues and theoretical and methodological foundations of childhood behavior disorders. Rich with illustrations and examples, this text highlights the newest areas of research and clinical work, stressing supported treatments and the prevention of behavior problems of youth.

Attention, Genes, and ADHD

Attention, Genes, and ADHD
Author: Florence Levy
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781841691930

Recent advances in genetic methodology are providing important aetiological and developmental information to the growing literature on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related conditions. Attention, Genes and ADHD is the first book to review and integrate both behaviour-genetic and molecular-genetic advances in this area. It brings together international researchers to show how modern techniques may be applied to the investigation of ADHD, and reviews current findings in the field of ADHD and related conditions. The book looks at the application of behaviour genetic approaches to twin studies, and reviews diagnostic to ADHD, the relationships between reading, spelling and ADHD, and family and genetic influences on speech and speech and language. Chapters go on to consider the overlaps between ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder and to explore the environmental and genetic influences among these disorders. The neurobiological and genetic relationship between ADHD and Tourette's Disorder is also examined. The book reviews recent advances in molecular genetics - in particular a discussion of Fragile X as a model for a single single gene effects on ADHD, and the application of genetic methods and approaches to the study of candidate genes. Finally, the implications for education and intervention are discussed, and current and future roles of gentic studies of ADHD are explored, as well as implications of the sequencing of the human genome for child psychiatry.

Pediatric Bipolar Disorder

Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
Author: Robert L. Findling
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002-10-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781841840543

Bipolar disorders were once considered rare in children and adolescents. A growing body of scientific evidence now suggests that they may be more prevalent in this group than previously believed. At the same time, the practitioner faces significant clinical challenges in both the assessment processes and also the implementation of a treatment plan. A paucity of treatment manuals and pharmacological algorithms providing practical guidance makes the task of the clinician even more difficult, despite the fact that more is known about the assessment, neurobiology and treatment of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder than ever before. Written by three distinguished experts, this book conveys to clinicians all the information currently available in this area. They review both the neuroscience and also the integration of rational, practical, pharmacological and psychosocial interventions. Based on what is known, a sound approach to the assessment of these youngsters can be developed. Similarly, available evidence allows practitioners to ground their treatment protocols solidly on scientific knowledge. Concise and authoritative, Pediatric Bipolar Disorders will give the reader a practical approach to both the art and science of providing the best possible clinical care to children and adolescents with the disorder. This book is written primarily for clinical psychiatrists, but will also be of interest to non-specialist doctors and other members of the health care team.

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine in the Child

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine in the Child
Author: Richard Ferber (M.D.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1995
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN:

This book is for any professional who sees children (or parents of children) with sleep problems including pediatricians, primary care physicians, nurses, mental health workers, pulmonologists, neurologists, and specialists in sleep medicine. Although sleep disorders in children are very common, until recently the body of knowledge in pediatric sleep medicine was too limited to warrant a textbook devoted to this topic. In recent years, a robust scientifically based body of knowledge has emerged, and the tools to diagnose and effectively treat children with sleep disorders are now available. The first part of this book reviews normal sleep patterns and clinical assessment techniques in the child. The second part deals with specific problems related to the sleep period, problems that may be developmental, neurologic, psychologic/psychiatric, or medical in origin. Only by understanding the interactions among normal sleep patterns, parental desires, patient needs, and pathologic states can a rational approach to the evaluation and treatment of sleep disorders in children become feasible.

Applied Biomechatronics Using Mathematical Models

Applied Biomechatronics Using Mathematical Models
Author: Jorge Garza Ulloa
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2018-06-16
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128125950

Applied Biomechatronics Using Mathematical Models provides an appropriate methodology to detect and measure diseases and injuries relating to human kinematics and kinetics. It features mathematical models that, when applied to engineering principles and techniques in the medical field, can be used in assistive devices that work with bodily signals. The use of data in the kinematics and kinetics analysis of the human body, including musculoskeletal kinetics and joints and their relationship to the central nervous system (CNS) is covered, helping users understand how the complex network of symbiotic systems in the skeletal and muscular system work together to allow movement controlled by the CNS. With the use of appropriate electronic sensors at specific areas connected to bio-instruments, we can obtain enough information to create a mathematical model for assistive devices by analyzing the kinematics and kinetics of the human body. The mathematical models developed in this book can provide more effective devices for use in aiding and improving the function of the body in relation to a variety of injuries and diseases. - Focuses on the mathematical modeling of human kinematics and kinetics - Teaches users how to obtain faster results with these mathematical models - Includes a companion website with additional content that presents MATLAB examples

TDAH en la infancia y la adolescencia

TDAH en la infancia y la adolescencia
Author: Diego Macià Antón
Publisher: Ediciones Pirámide
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 8436828194

Esta obra aborda la descripción, evaluación y tratamiento de uno de los problemas más frecuentes de consulta en la clínica psicológica infantojuvenil: el trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad (TDAH). La intervención psicológica, en muchos casos en combinación con el tratamiento farmacológico, ha demostrado su eficacia para reducir la sintomatología del trastorno y para prevenir o tratar otras complicaciones o problemas asociados.