Overview

A clinician faces a multitude of considerations when assessing a child patient. Foremost among these is that caring for the child involves caring for the family members as well. The therapist must balance the competing needs and feelings of the child, parents, and family as a whole. By forming an alliance with all members of the family, the therapist is in a position to strengthen and enhance the ties between child, parents, and family during all phases of assessment and treatment, leading to a more effective therapeutic intervention. Sharing Care offers a model that will help clinicians achieve this alliance. The model presented in this book focuses on ways to integrate child assessment and treatment with the level of function of their parents' and families'. It uses the authors' unique concept of the Zones of Care to help clinicians assess this level of function. In turn, each of the four zones leads to a specific approach to treatment. The authors present how these treatment approaches to current disorders in children and adolescents allow clinicians to integrate a wide variety of techniques to address most DSM-IV categories. The authors' approach stresses both symptom reduction and the cultivation of coping skills and integrates fiscal issues of treatment into the development of the alliance with the parents. Dr. Ziegler and Dr. Bush present the reader with practical, workable strategies for laying down strong diagnostic foundations for successful treatment, making Sharing Care a valuable resource for any clinician working with children and adolescents.

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Author:   Robert Ziegler ,  Andrew Bush
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Brunner-Mazel Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9780876309742

ISBN 10:   0876309740
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 May 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I. Getting Started. Facing the Presenting Problem in the Initial Family Based and Child Diagnostic Meeting: The Perfect Family. Challenging Children: Challenging Families: Management Techniques and Understanding the Zone of Difficulty: The Less than Perfect Family. Assessing Parental and Family Function: Psychopathology in Parents Which Undermines Children's Development - Impact on Treatment Planning. Finding Your Treatment Plan in the Zone: Preparing the Short-Term and Long-Term Plan for Yourself, Parents and Working with Available Resources (Including Managed Care). Part II. Disorders in Children: Introduction. Internalizing Disorders: Anxiety - Depressive Spectrum Disorders. Externalizing Disorders: ADD-ODD-Conduct Disorder. Problem or Solution: Complications in the Treatment Plan in Zone 1. Epilogue: Enhancing Parental Care, Family Structure and Coping in Children: Long-Term contact for Zone 1 Children, Parents and Families.

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