Research Catalog

Title

A handbook of childhood anxiety management / edited by Kedar Nath Dwivedi, Ved Prakash Varma.

Publication

Aldershot : Arena, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dwivedi, Kedar Nath.
• Varma, Ved Prakash.

Description

xvii, 252 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The book is aimed at assisting professionals in offering skilful help to children, and addresses the causes, nature and distribution of anxiety problems in children and various approaches to treatment. A large variety of helping professionals working with children - such as child psychiatrists, child psychologists, educational psychologists and health visitors - will find the book immensely valuable.

Subject

• Anxiety > Treatment
• Anxiety > therapy
• Child psychiatry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Martin Herbert -- Preface / Kedar Nath Dwivedi -- Professor Marwah's inspiring contributions / Ishwar Chandra Tiwari -- 1. Introduction / Kedar Nath Dwivedi -- 2. Epidemiology of anxiety disorders / Catherine Coffey -- 3. Sources of anxiety / Renuka Nagraj -- 4. Assessment, with a view to treatment planning / Anthony Roberts -- 5. Assessing and monitoring anxiety in children / David Jones -- 6. Contribution of the psychodynamic approach / Susanna Isaacs Elmhirst -- 7. Cognitive behavioural therapy / Mary Ellis -- 8. Family therapy / Alec Clark -- 9. Play therapy / Mary Gray -- 10. What can group therapy offer? / Jason Maratos -- 11. Pharmacotherapy of anxiety disorders / Anthony James -- 12. Hypnotherapy in children / Raj Kathane -- 13. Cultural aspects of anxiety in children / Vaman Lokare -- 14. The management of school phobia / Sally Letts and Dino Cirelli -- 15. Anxiety associated with learning disabilities / Chinta Mani.

ISBN

1857423046

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries