Martin Herbert

Gebundenes Buch

Typical and Atypical Development

From Conception to Adolescence

Beschreibung

This text provides an interesting and informative account of the child's journey from the womb to the world outside, through childhood and into adolescence. It is based on the belief that it is vital for those training to work with children who have problems to understand what is typical or atypical in children's development. The first half of the book, discussing normal patterns of growth and development, is cross-referenced to equivalent chapters in the second half, which discuss the atypical route. These connections serve to emphasize the continuities between, and similarities of, children with typical and atypical conditions. Among the difficulties covered are: * Pervasive developmental disorders * Genetic disorders * Physical impairments * Learning difficulties * Brain damage * Emotional and behavioural disorders * Personality disorders. * Physical and mental illnesses The text also deliberately links developmental and clinical psychology approaches in order to help readers connect their theoretical understanding of the physical and psychological problems of childhood with the practicalities of assessment, rehabilitation and treatment.

Autor

Martin Herbert is Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Royal and Devon Exeter Health Care Trust and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 184mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 925g
• ISBN-13: 9780631234654
• ISBN-10: 0631234659
• Artikelnr.: 21573344

Rezensionen

'Although many have attempted to write a developmentally based bookon child and adolescent behavior problems, few have achieved thislofty and elusive goal. Professor Herbert does so, however. Henicely bridges the gap or, some would say, chasm betweendevelopmental psychology, educational psychology, and clinicalchild and adolescent psychology. Throughout this volume, he weavesa rich tapestry of typical (i.e., normal) development anddevelopment gone awry. Developmental psychopathology comes alive.His approach is theoretically sophisticated, clinically sensitive,and both engaging and timely. It is, in short, a volume whose timehas come.' Thomas H. Ollendick, PhD, University DistinguishedProfessor, Virginia Tech

'Professor Herbert

summarizes very complicated materialin a succinct, authoritative and accessible manner. He successfullyintegrates findings from biology, genetics, developmental andclinical psychology and places them within an appropriatecross-cultural context. This forms the basis for evidence basedpractice in the 21st century and is an invaluable aide-mémoireto all working with children.' William Yule, PhD, Professor ofApplied Child Psychology, University of London Institute ofPsychiatry

"Martin Herbert provides comprehensive and interesting coverageof a core area of psychology - along with definition and discussionof the less core, more clinical aspects of the subject ... This isan intriguing combination of student textbook and descriptivehandbook that will interest undergraduate and postgraduate alike,both in psychology and the more clinical areas of study. I'm surestudents will find it a useful resource" Dr Rowan Myron,University of Hull, The Psychologist, August 2003, Vol 16,No.8

"Martin Herbert succeeds in this volume, as he has in manyearlier volumes, in presenting complex material and issues in anunderstandable and authoritative manner. This is no mean feat, andis achieved with an elegant and engaging style ... Throughout thebook Herbert skilfully succeeds in addressing issues of clinicaland educational psychology and interweaving these withdevelopmental, social and cognitive psychology ... Students andtheir teachers from a range of programmes will find this bookinvaluable as a resource: nurse, teacher, psychologist, and othermedical professionals will benefit from possessing the book as asource book which provides infomation on a wide range ofdevelopmental problems. At a time when there is an increasinginterest in, and concern with, the development of children andyoung people and the ways in which the environment in its widestsense can influence development, this book transcends thetraditional distinction between nature and nurture and provides aclinically sensitive and academically authoritative account ofnormal and atypical development. As stated by Thomas Ollendick onthe back cover, 'it is a volume whose time has come'." IngridLunt, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 45, No. 6,September 2004