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Conduct Disorders & Severe Antisocial Behavior (Clinical Child Psychology Library)
by Paul J. Frick

   




 Editorial Reviews
 From Book News, Inc.
A guide for clinicians which emphasizes the links between clinical presentation, course, and causes of conduct disorders, and designing effective interventions for children and adolescents with these disorders. After an overview of the basic nature and symptoms of aggressive and antisocial behavior, the author discusses major causal factors, how they can be organized into comprehensive theoretical models that can be used to guide intervention, and the role of psychological testing in developing a clear case conceptualization that can point the way to individualized treatment. Book News, Inc.�, Portland, OR
This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Book Description
This book outlines a scientific approach to understanding and treating children and adolescents who display a severe pattern of aggressive antisocial behavior. Unlike other works which tend to focus exclusively on research data or practical guidelines for treatment approaches, this valuable reference integrates both of these aspects, providing clear guidelines for intervention based on the most current research. Outstanding features include 23 tables and figures, and two chapters detailing a comprehensive approach to treatment tailored to the needs of the individual child or adolescent.
 


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Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents: A Developmental Analysis and the Oregon Model for Intervention
by John B. Reid (Editor), Gerald R. Patterson (Editor), James J. Snyder (Editor)

  

Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
The Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene espouses a coercion theory about the development of delinquency and other antisocial behavior. After a brief history of OSLC's 30 years of research, staff and a Wichita State U. psychology professor explain how such behavior progresses from early coercive family relations to similar interactions with others. The rest of the 14 papers discuss social learning model-based interventions (e.g. multidimensional treatment foster care, a preventive project linking families and elementary school teachers, and an adolescent transition program), and future extensions of these nurture-over-nature models.
Book News, Inc.�, Portland, OR

Book Description
Summarizes the ongoing work at the Oregon Social Learning Center. Provides approaches to reducing the occurrence of antisocial behavior beginning in the earliest years in childhood. Uses the coercion theory as an organizing framework, distilling more than 30 years of research. Written for researchers and clinicians.


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Antisocial Behavior by Young People : A Major New Review

 by Michael Rutter, Henri Giller, Ann Hagell
 

Editorial Reviews
�Antisocial Behavior by Young People will undoubtly be a valuable addition to the libraries of those investigating antisocial and criminal behavior. I know of no better book on this topis and consider it a 'must read'.� Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D. Director, Mt. Hope Family Center University of Rochester

Book Description
Written by a child psychiatrist, a criminologist and a social psychologist, Antisocial Behavior by Young People is a major international review of research evidence on antisocial behavior. The book covers all aspects of the field, including descriptions of different types of delinquency and time trends, the state of knowledge on the individual, social-psychological and cultural factors involved, and recent advances in prevention and intervention. The authors bring together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives in order to provide a comprehensive account of antisocial behavior in youth. This will be an important work for many professionals and researchers in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, sociology, and criminology.
 

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Causes of Conduct Disorder and Juvenile Delinquency
by Benjamin B. Lahey (Editor), Terrie E. Moffitt (Editor), Avshalom Caspi (Editor)
 

Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
Lahey (president, Society for Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology) presents international contributions on causal factors of conduct disorder and juvenile delinquency. The book opens with an overview of conceptual and methodological issues. Four general causal models are then delineated and are applied to specific aspects of the origins of conduct problems, including early childhood influences, cognitive factors, and biological influences. A concluding chapter looks at the role of animal models in causal research on aggression.

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�This book is an excellent contribution to the field....The differences between Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescent-Limited forms of juvenile delinquency is intriguing. Until reading this book, I had not been aware of the intensive research attempts to define these two groups. But the separation is important because the developmental pathway of the two groups is very different....It is an excellent book for those interested in research in this field.�
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

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Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents: Research and Treatment
by Daniel F. Connor

 


Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
Writing in a clear style that advanced undergraduates and graduate students will be able to follow, Connor (psychiatry, U. of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester and director, pediatric psychopharmacology, U. of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care) addresses the complex issues of youth violence from a clinical-developmental perspective. Theory, types of behavior, and analysis of the prevalence of the behaviors are described in initial chapters. Connor then provides a complete review of current literature on the approaches, issues, and treatments for all aspects of the subject, including neurobiology, psychobiology, and female aggression.

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�...a valuable addition to the literature. Written by Dr. Daniel F. Connor, this book covers aggression and antisocial behavior from a medical perspective. Dr. Connor is an academic child psychiatrist with expertise in pediatric psychopharmacology. His book includes 12 chapters addressing definitions, epidemiology, natural history, psychobiology, and neurobiology related to these conditions. Clinicians will appreciate the emphasis on the assessment and psychosocial as well as psychopharmacological treatment issues....I recommend this book for child psychiatrists and consultation-liaison psychiatrists who evaluate and recommend treatment for children and adolescents.�
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry

�Aggression and antisociality are difficult concepts to utilize in practice. Daniel F. Connor's new book, Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Children and Adolescents, provides a comprehensive examination of these topics in a thoughtful and productive manner from a developmental perspective....a useful volume that is both a guide for the treating clinician and a reference tool for the researcher or nonclinician....This book is a useful guide for clinicians, researchers, and practitioners in the juvenile justice system. It is well indexed and referenced. Dr. Connor has provided us with a solid review of the current literature, a thoughtful analysis of current models of aggression, and an overview of the therapeutic interventions currently available.�
Psychiatric Services
 

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Small Criminals Among Us: How to Recognize and Change Children's Antisocial Behavior � Before They Explode
by Gad Czudner (Ph.D.)
 


Editorial Reviews
 From Library Journal
Following up on their excellent earlier work, The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Magical yet Maddening School Years, Giannetti and SagareseAonline parenting experts for iVillage's Parentsoup web siteAhere focus on rescuing �middlers� (ten- to 15-year-olds) from a wide range of predicaments. Without effective coping and teaching skills, many well-intentioned parents can make serious mistakes and watch their middlers struggle in delinquent behaviors. The authors provide a wide range of resources and preventive strategies in an expertly organized, lucid format supported by the latest research. Psychologist Czudner has written an equally timely book. He discusses �budding criminals� (ages two to 17): morally illiterate juveniles who are not very �nice children� even if they do not end up in jail.
They are addicted to power and try to obtain it through activities ranging from classroom disruption to murder. Early detection helps, as does the teaching of �pro-social� skills and moral values based on understanding and feeling. Nurturing feelings of empathy and guilt makes children responsive to the suffering of others. Czudner considers empathy innate and guilt a �positive human characteristic.� He decries the excessive modern preoccupation with self-awareness, self-love, and self-esteem, arguing that what is needed is for children to become morally and emotionally intelligent. Excellent companion reading to Daniel P. Goleman's Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (LJ 9/1/95).AChogollah Maroufi, California State Univ., Los Angeles
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
With tales of children killing children filling newspaper headlines, families, teachers, and observers of �difficult children� are in a quandary � what can be done to identify and help such troubled youngsters before they explode?

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Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, and Violence among Girls : A Developmental Perspective (Duke Series in Child Develpmt. and Pub Pol.)

by Martha Putallaz (Editor), Karen L. Bierman (Editor)

 

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Editorial Reviews
 �This book is an essential reference for any behavioral scientist interested in sex differences. The topics addressed are hugely provocative, from the first question � 'Why do groups of little boys and girls socially construct different subcultures for themselves?' � to the last � 'What should policy makers do, now that they've discovered girls' aggression?' I wrote a book on this subject myself only 3 years ago, but this one is so full of new information that I learned a lot from it.�
Terrie E. Moffitt, PhD, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK

�You can't solve a problem if you don't know one exists. This book brings girls' aggression out of the shadows and into the limelight, and offers solutions to guide prevention, intervention, and public policy decisions. Scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines � developmental and clinical psychology, social work, education, sociology, and criminology � should read this book.�
Ross D. Parke, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside

�I found this volume essential reading. It provides key new knowledge on the development, biological and social causes, and consequences of girls� aggression, antisocial behavior, and violence. Chapters by top-ranking experts with years of experience in the field, a number of whom base their results on longitudinal studies, make this volume highly informative for scholars, graduate students, and practitioners. I particularly liked the thoughtful consideration of directions and priorities for intervening to improve the lives of girls in current and future generations.�
Rolf Loeber, PhD, Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh