Alan Carrigan

Seventeen-year-old Sam, who has cerebral palsy, wants some controlover his life. When he is excluded from another school trip andhas to spend the day with his bully, it's the tipping point. Campaigningfor change, Sam gets more than he bargained for. But ifyou're always thinking that the next thing will make you happy, whathappens to right now?

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 ofProblems of infancy and early childhoodProblems of middle childhoodProblems of adolescenceChild abuseAdjustment 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.