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This all-new, all-encompassing resource gives you one place to turn to - for expert guidance from the time of diagnosis trough the transition to adulthood. Here's what you need to know - what you need to do - to deliver, coordinate, and/or monitor quality developmental and behavioral health care within the medical home. Mulitdisciplinary contributors provide expert perspectives and practical how-to help with everything from patient evaluation and early intervention....to treatment modalties and pharmacologic therapies...to referral recommendations, community services, and coding and billing issues. The one resource with all the essentials for pediatric primary pediatric health care providers. Evaluation and care initiation: Interviewing and counseling, Surveillance and screening, Psychoeducational testing, Neurodevelopmental assessment and medical evaluation, Developmental and behavioral disorders and diagnoses, Motor and cognitive development, Speech and language development and disorders, Social and emotional development, Autism spectrum disorders, Learning disabilities, Management solutions, Psychological interventions, Behavioral interventions, Psychopharmacologic management, Complementary and alternative medicine approaches. Plus this issue includes: Introduction - Child Development: The Basic Science of Pediatrics, Nature, Nurture and Their Interactions in Child Development and Behavior, Interviewing and Counseling Children and Families, Basics of Child Behavior and Primary Care Management of Common Behavioral Problems, Early Intervention, Developmental and Behavioral Surveillance and Screening Within the Medical Home, Neurodevelopmental Assessment and Medical Evaluation, Developmental and Behavioral Diagnoses: The Spectrum and Continuum of Developmental Disabilities and Behavioral Disorders, Motor Development, Cognitive Development, Speech and Language Development and Disorders, Social and Emotional Development, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychoeducational Testing, Learning Disabilities, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Disruptive Behavior Disorders, Anxiety and Mood Disorders, Evidence-based Psychological and Behavioral Interventions, Principles of Psychopharmacologic Management, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Sensory Impairments: Hearing and Vision, Social and Community Services, Transition to Adult Medical Care, Billing and Coding for Developmental and Behavioral Problems in Outpatient Primary Care.

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