The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology

A Contextual Approach

Alan Carr

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040300138
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychiatry & Mental Health
• Index: Psychology

Now in its fourth edition, The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology incorporates important advances in the field to provide a practice- oriented and accessible resource for clinical psychologists in training.

Beginning with a set of general conceptual frameworks for practice, the book gives specific guidance on the management of problems commonly encountered in clinical work with children and adolescents, drawing on the best practice in the fields of clinical psychology and family therapy. There is comprehensive coverage of

• Problems of infancy and early childhood
• Problems of middle childhood
• Problems of adolescence
• Child abuse
• Adjustment to major life transitions including entering foster care, parental divorce, and bereavement

Each chapter dealing with specific clinical problems includes cases examples; discussion of diagnosis, classification, epidemiology, clinical features, assessment, and treatment; and practice exercises. New material includes the latest advances in child and adolescent clinical psychology assessment and treatment programmes and positive psychology. It also is updated in line with the latest revisions of ICD and DSM.

This book is invaluable as both a reference work for experienced practitioners and as an up-to-date, evidence- based practice manual for clinical psychologists in training.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of boxes
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Acknowledgements
• Section I Frameworks for practice
• 1 Normal development
• 2 The 5P formulation framework
• 3 Classification, diagnosis, epidemiology, and treatment effectiveness
• 4 The consultation process and intake interviews
• 5 Report writing
• Section II Problems of infancy and early childhood
• 6 Sleep problems
• 7 Toileting problems
• 8 Intellectual, learning, and communication disabilities and disorders
• 9 Autism
• Section III Problems of middle childhood
• 10 Conduct problems
• 11 Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• 12 Anxiety
• 13 Repetition problems: OCD and Tourette disorder
• 14 Somatic problems
• Section IV Problems in adolescence
• 15 Drug misuse
• 16 Mood problems
• 17 Anorexia and bulimia nervosa
• 18 Pyschosis
• Section V Child abuse
• 19 Physical abuse
• 20 Emotional abuse and neglect
• 21 Sexual abuse
• Section VI Adjustment to major life transitions
• 22 Foster care
• 23 Separation and divorce
• 24 Grief and bereavement
• Index