Family Focused Behavioral Pediatrics.

Cover -- Copyright -- Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Shifting to a Family Focus -- 1. The Family-Oriented Approach Why and How It Works -- 2. Determining Which Problems Are Suitable for Family Counseling -- 3. Getting Ready for a Family Meeting -- 4. Coding and Documenting for Reimbursement -- II. Interviewing the Family: Practical Strategies -- 5. Facilitating a Successful Family Interview -- 6. The Four Steps of a Family Interview -- 7. Assessing Family Functioning Additional Methods -- 8. Three Models of Brief Family Interviews -- 9. After the Initial Interview The Post-Interview Phase, Follow-Up, and Choosing a Termination Point for the Meetings -- III. Clinical Issues and Strategies -- 10. Family Communication Problems -- 11. Supporting Parents -- 12. Strategies to Enhance Family Functioning -- 13. Dealing with Disappointment and Failure Avoiding Pitfall and Working with Difficult Families -- 14. Making a Mental Health Referral -- 15. Getting More Training and Knowledge in Family-Focused Pediatrics -- Glossary -- Appendix -- Subject Index.

This first-of-a-kind, pocket-size, easy-to-use manual describes practical, family-oriented approaches for the evaluation and management of common behavioral and interaction problems that are often resistant to child-centered approaches. These problems--e.g., tantrums, sleep problems, non-compliance, parent-child conflict, parenting disagreements, and social-emotional complications of ADHD and learning problems--affect and/or arise in the family. Physicians, nurse practitioners, psychologists, and school counselors can implement these techniques in the office, specifically how to: identify problems suitable for a family-oriented approach, conduct family meetings, help families improve their communication and adaptive behaviors, deal with disappointments and difficult families, support parents, code and document for reimbursement, and make a mental health referral.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.