Designed to provide clinical knowledge in a convenient format, Textbook of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition highlights the most common clinical concerns seen on a regular basis by the practicing pediatric gastroenterologist. Covering issues relevant for the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of problematic conditions, including nutritional disorders, the book is an up-to-date, reliable clinical primer on the disorders and diseases that may affect the gastrointestinal tract in neonates and children.
Reflecting a new vision for cooperation among pediatric gastroenterologists in response to the globalization of information that the Internet has catalyzed, the book takes a comprehensive approach. It offers, in one cohesive package, information that illustrates the different realities of common gastroenterological and nutritional problems in different patients and different clinical settings.

Contents:
1. Closure of Gastroschisis 2. Repair of Oesophageal Atresia and Tracheo-oesophageal Fistula 3. Pyloromyotomy 4. Herniotomy in the Ex-premature Infant 5. The Kasai Procedure 6. Cleft Palate 7. Muscle Biopsy in the 'Floppy Infant' 8. Intussusception in a Six Month Baby 9. Adenotonsilletcomy in a Patient with Total Cavopulmonary Circulation 10. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome 11. An Adolescent with Chronic Knee Pain and Severe Disability 12. Management of Pain in a Sickle Cell Crisis 13. Laparoscopic Fundoplication in a Child with Cerebral Palsy 14. Craniotomy for Medulloblastoma 15. The Toddler with a Nephroblastoma 16. Laser Therapy for Laryngeal Papillomas 17. Apert Syndrome and Congenital Abnormality of the Hand 18. Multilevel Orthopaedic Surgery in a Child with Cerebral Palsy 19. Scoliosis Repair in a Child with Rett's Syndrome 20. MRO for Cystic Hygroma 21. Empyema 22. Day Case Anaesthesia for Orchidopexy in a 'Snotty' Child 23. Problems in the Recovery Room 24. The Screaming Child with a Perforating Eye Injury 25. Strabismus Surgery 26. Difficult Intubation 27. Bronchoscopy for an Inhaled Foreign Body 28. Consent in a Child of Jehovah's Witness Parents 29. Revision Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt in a Child with Spina Bifida and Latex Allergy 30. Adenotonsillectomy with OSA 31. Bronchospasm in an Asthmatic 32. Appendicectomy with Insulin Dependent Diabetes 33. Cholecystectomy with Sickle Cell Disease 34. Head Injury 35. Paediatric Transport: Retrieval of a Two Year Old Girl with Meningococcal Septicaemia

Liver disease in children is increasing in prevalence, placing a huge burden on healthcare systems and often requiring long-term management. Offering an integrative approach to the science and clinical practice of pediatric hepatology, this is the definitive reference text for improved diagnosis and treatment strategies. In the new edition of this authoritative text, chapters have been thoroughly revised in line with major advances in the field, such as recognizing the increased frequency of fatty liver disease, and how genetic testing has the potential to establish earlier diagnoses for a variety of diseases. Disorders covered include cholestasis, metabolic disorders and hepatitis, with their presentation across the spectrum of infancy, childhood and adolescence discussed. The indications and surgical aspects of liver transplant are explained and post-transplant care is described in detail. This is a valuable resource for pediatricians, hepatologists, gastroenterologists and all clinicians involved in the care of children with liver diseases.

Explore interventions and treatment methods designed to help curb the alarming trend toward violence in today's youth! Written in jargon-free lucid prose, Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children specifically shows how positive early experiences enhance brain development and how traumatic life experiences, especially child abuse and neglect, can affect a child's brain and behavior. Through carefully selected case studies, the book offers basic principles of treatment and a broad range of interventions that target the multiple symptoms and problems seen in children with a history of childhood trauma. Offering a new psychobiological model of child development, this book incorporates the influence of both genes and the environment and conceptualizes normal and pathological development in terms of common underlying processes. For readers concerned with promoting healthy development in children and helping children recover from childhood trauma, this engagingly written book describes exactly how a child's social/interpersonal environment can positively or negatively influence brain development. Throughout the book, the authors highlight the interrelationship between neurobiology and psychology. They present basic information about brain development and organization, describe exactly what is going on inside the brain at each stage of development, and illustrate these concepts through a detailed case study of a preschooler with severe problems in communicating and relating. They discuss the pernicious effects that traumatic stress has on brain and behavior, differentiating between simple and complex PTSD, and review the specific brain impairments currently attributed to a childhood history of maltreatment. Using their unique psychobiological perspective and illustrative case studies, the authors evaluate the principles and strategies of treatment, showing how relationships and experiences can mitigate the effects childhood trauma. After fleshing out the shocking cost to society of child maltreatment, the authors offer broad policy prescriptions that promote healthy development, including basic strategies for prevention and early intervention. Psychological Trauma and the Developing Brain: Neurologically Based Interventions for Troubled Children will show you: how interpersonal experience shapes brain development what is going on in the brain during the critical first six years how therapeutic relationships and interpersonal experience can promote emotional and cognitive development how childhood maltreatment can damage the brain and impair the developing mind what types of experiences and therapeutic strategies can mitigate the effects of childhood trauma what policy prescriptions, programs, and early intervention strategies can be implemented to promote healthy development

An introduction to child psychiatry which draws on clinical experience as well as the latest research findings. "Child Psychiatry" includes many practical tips on successful assessment and treatment techniques. Its companion website features over 200 multiple choice questions and answers to assist those preparing for examinations, including MRCPsych Written in an accessible style by international experts in child psychiatry.

..".I am flooded with warmth for this little expert on the art of living, who has just realised that even he has the possibility to live a long life. My interpretation is that he trusts he will get the time he needs in therapy to reach, first adulthood, and, then, old age. Right now he believes he will continue to be in therapy for the rest of his life. He cannot imagine that it is going to come to an end. However, I have started to think about when we will have to part and I am not looking forward to it...""From Chaos to Coherence" is the true story, told in everyday language, of the adopted boy Douglas and his journey towards adulthood with the help of psychotherapy. Douglas has severe psychic, physical and social handicaps and is also diagnosed with ADHD. He is impulse-governed, aggressive, provocative and unable to interact with other children. He begins psychotherapy at the age of seven and continues weekly sessions for the next seven years.The reader is invited into the child psychotherapy room to follow the work of Douglas and his therapist, author Elisabeth Cleve. The therapy can be described as physically intense work that evokes strong emotions in both Douglas and the therapist. We get to learn about their inner feelings, thoughts and actions during the different phases of the treatment.The story of Douglas captivates the reader and provides an understanding of what is going on inside a troubled little boy. This beautifully written account of successful psychotherapy is painfully honest at times and manages to bring the therapy sessions to life for the reader. "From Chaos to Coherence" is an important book and vital reading not only for all involved in children s psychotherapy, but for all of us in search of a humane, informative and touching book."

With the number and type of mental health issues in children on the rise, and as more and more clinicians and counsellors are being pushed to the front lines of defence, there is a greater need for a comprehensive, practical resource that guides professionals through the complexities of child and adolescent mental health. This practical, comprehensive book answers that call.

"Sent Before My Time" is an exploration of the workings of a neo natal intensive care unit from a child psychotherapist's point of view. It examines the relationships between the babies, the parents and the staff.

The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and adolescents, from babies to 19-year-olds. The volumes consist of clinical cases that describe the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy used to treat the patients. The contributors look at the underlying causes for the disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia, lead to a normal life with the help of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In addition, this collection takes into account the profound effects eating disorders have, not only on the patients, but on their immediate family and friends as well.'Many cases describe the anxieties and strategies of defence used against feelings of dependence and the risk of accepting from another. This is a core theme in both volumes and is the principal idea behind the paradoxical title, The Generosity of Acceptance.

Das Referenzwerk zur padiatrischen Pneumologie wurde von einem neuen Herausgeberteam grundlegend uberarbeitet. Spezialisten aus Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz haben bei diesem umfassenden Praxisbuch mitgewirkt, das sich an dem European Training Syllabus der European Academy of Paediatrics orientiert.

Luckenlos prasentiert das Buch das fundierte Spezialwissen zu Atemwegserkrankungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen von den respiratorischen Erkrankungen des Fruh- und Neugeborenen bis hin zu Asthma, obstruktiven Atemwegserkrankungen, Pneumonie und seltenen Lungenerkrankungen. Der Bogen wird gespannt von den verstandlich dargestellten Grundlagen des gesunden Respirationstraktes uber die diagnostischen Techniken bis hin zu den Erkrankungen des Respirationstraktes, die nach einer einheitlichen Struktur ausfuhrlich und praxisnah beschrieben sind.

Spezielle Therapien wie Inhalationstherapie oder Heimbeatmung bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt des Buches. Das wichtige Thema der Interaktionen mit anderen Fachgebieten wurde neu ins Buch aufgenommen, darunter intensivmedizinische Aspekte, Difficult Airway Management oder kinderchirurgische Aspekte. Damit ist dieses Referenzwerk fur alle Arzte nutzlich, die mit padiatrischer Pneumologie in Beruhrung kommen. Zum Lesen, Lernen und Nachschlagen.

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Childhood Psychosis is a well-structured and informative study that explores childhood psychosis and its different manifestations in depth, with special emphasis on the relation between psychosis and autism. Tendlarz uses clinical cases to illustrate different aspects of psychoanalytic theories and treatments.

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions, affecting up to seventy million people worldwide, with post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) accounting for up to 20% of symptomatic cases. Despite this, there is a dearth of information about PTE available for clinicians. This book will guide readers through the neurobiology of PTE and the long-term consequences and rehabilitation needs of patients. Emerging topics such as concussive convulsions in sports are examined and a chapter dedicated to PTE in children ensures readers have the latest knowledge for treating this high-risk subpopulation. Managing PTE in medium and low-income countries where access to appropriate treatment, and even diagnostic equipment, is often poor, is covered in depth. This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of PTE by active international authorities in the field of epilepsy and traumatic brain injury, with an emphasis on epidemiology, neurobiology, clinical problems as well as management issues.

This is a comprehensive guide to the clinical management of the pediatric upper limb, with special emphasis on the hand. A special feature is the general discussion of some clinical cases by various contributors.

A complete revision of the successful pocketbook, the fourteenth edition of A Pediatric Vade-Mecum will continue to provide, students and pediatric residents with invaluable information on the diagnosis and management of illness in children. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout and with a new editorial and author team, it will provide the trainee with practical evidence-based advice for the safe and effective management of the sick child. Retaining the easy-to-digest style that has made previous editions so popular, the content has been restructured into five major sections: acute pediatric problems, outpatient pediatrics, formulary, normal values and glossary of terms, with entries in sections 1 and 2 organized alphabetically for ease of reference.
Key Features:
* Covers immediate management of common emergencies and pediatric conditions supplemented with useful background information
* Provides evidence-based treatment guidelines and information on conditions not always covered by local departmental protocols
* Based on the needs of doctors in training
* Includes useful pediatric formulary based upon Medicines for Children for rapid reference
* Enhanced in this new edition by the inclusion of a helpful 'Glossary of terms'

Critically ill paediatric transfers have expanded rapidly over the past ten years and, as such, the need for transfer teams to recognise, understand and treat the various illnesses that they encounter is greater than ever. This highly illustrated book covers a multitude of clinical presentations in a case-based format to allow an authentic feel to the transfer process. Written by clinicians with experience in thousands of transfers, it brings together many years of experience from a world-renowned hospital. Following the case from initial presentation, to resuscitation and referral and finally with the transfer itself; the book explores the clinical stabilisation, human factors decisions and logistical challenges that are encountered every day by these teams. Following the entire journey, this is an ideal resource for all professionals who may be involved in critical care transfer and retrieval medicine, particularly those working in paediatrics, emergency medicine, anaesthesiology, intensive care, or pre-hospital settings.

How can we measure the quality of life in children and adolescents with chronic disease?
Major progress in the diagnosis and treatment of severe and chronic disease has led to an increased number of children and their families having to adapt and cope with the impact of disease, survival, and the cost of treatment. Health professionals have responded to this by developing a diversity of instruments for measuring quality of life for use in paediatrics, psychology and public health. This book introduces the reader to the emerging field of quality of life assessment and provides a comprehensive overview of the conceptual and methodological issues concerning quality of life in child and adolescent illness. Particular emphasis is provided on current efforts to measure the impact of specific chronic conditions on different domains of child functioning. Future directions are outlined for the development of appropriate instruments for measuring quality of life in children and adolescents.
Quality of Life in Child and Adolescent Illness is intended for psychologists, paediatricians, paediatric nurses, child psychiatrists, public health professionals, researchers and other interested readers from the undergraduate to the working professional.

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As an essential guide to paediatric haematology, this concise text offers a quick and reliable source of practical information for clinicians. Covering all blood disorders in children, the contents are structured to include all the major disease groups and include introductory chapters on normal haemopoiesis, normal coagulation, infections and transfusion. Whilst the text focuses on practical management, sufficient background information is given to enable trainees to care effectively for patients. Essential Paediatric Haematology is an ideal text for haematologists and paediatricians in training and a valuable source of reference for other health care professionals.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1971 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

By offering unique analysis and synthesis of theory, empirical research, and clinical guidance in an up-to-date and unbiased context, this book assists health and social care professionals in understanding the use of drugs and substances of abuse by children and adolescents. A comprehensive reference for health and social care professionals, the book identifies and corrects related false narratives and, with the use of the authors' combined experience of over 70 years of clinical and academic experience in drug and substance abuse, provides current pharmacotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of alcohol or other dependence or use disorders among children and adolescents. The book also provides a useful reference for identifying brand/trade and street names of the drugs and substances of abuse commonly used by children and adolescents. Also included is a comprehensive, cross-referenced subject index. Clear, comprehensive, accessible, and fully referenced, this book will be an invaluable resource for professionals and students who aim to treat children and adolescents. Child and Adolescent Drug and Substance Abuse is the 19th clinical pharmacology and therapeutic text that the Pagliaros have written over the past 40 years and is the sixth that deals exclusively with drug and substance abuse.

Gehaltvoll und praxisnah: Das Buch zum Fachgebiet! Bauchschmerzen, Erbrechen oder Durchfall - in der kinderärztlichen Klinik oder Praxis ein häufiger Vorstellungsgrund. Doch die Kinder-Gastroenterologie beinhaltet weit mehr als das: Sie zeichnet sich durch vielfältige Krankheitsbilder und Differenzialdiagnosen aus, die in der Gastroenterologie des Erwachsenen kaum bekannt sind. Mit diesem Buch hat die Subspezialität „Pädiatrische Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Ernährung“ ihr Referenzwerk gefunden, das sich schnell in der Fachwelt etabliert hat. Ein umfassender Überblick, unschlagbar in puncto Praxisnähe. Orientiert an den Prozessabläufen bei der Behandlung eines kranken Kindes, führt das Buch den Leser konsequent von den Untersuchungsmethoden zu den einzelnen organbezogenen Krankheiten bis hin zum gastroenterologischen Konsil. Für die 2. Auflage haben renommierte Spezialisten aus Kliniken in ganz Europa sämtliche Kapitel auf den neuesten Stand gebracht. Neu hinzugekommen sind die so genannten Rom-Kriterien zur Diagnose. Einzelne seltenere Krankheitsbilder vervollständigen den „Rodeck-Zimmer“ zu einem lückenlosen Nachschlagewerk für das gesamte Fachgebiet, unverzichtbar für alle (angehenden) Fachärzte der Kinderheilkunde und Jugendmedizin.

Der uberarbeitete Leitfaden fur Diagnose, Management und Behandlung von Blutkrankheiten und Krebs bei Kindern. Kinder mit Blutkrankheiten und Krebs sind eine ganz spezifische Gruppe, die besondere Diagnosemassnahmen und ein spezifisches Management erfordert. Das Handbook of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology stellt Klinikern auf jedem Niveau anhand eines aktuellen Algorithmus praxisorientierte Handlungsanleitungen zur Verfugung. Die aktualisierte dritte Auflage wurde von einem Expertenteam des Children`s Hospital & Research Center Oakland zusammengestellt. - Prasentiert aktuelle Management- und Behandlungsrichtlinien fur die meisten bekannten Blutkrankheiten und boesartigen Krebserkrankungen. - Neuester Algorithmus-Ansatz fur Diagnose und Management der haufigsten Krankheitsbilder mit Verweisen zur Fachliteratur. - Bietet zum schnellen Nachschlagen Tabellen mit visualisierten Darstellungen der Symptome, Laborergebnissen, Differenzialdiagnosen und beinhaltet Behandlungsempfehlungen. - Zeigt mittels Fallstudien die verschiedenen hamatologischen und onkologischen Aspekte, u. a. hamolytische Anamie, Sichelzellenkrankheit, Hamophilie, Neuroblastom, weiches und hartes Sarkom. -Enthalt eine nutzliche Arzneimittelliste und Informationen zu chemotherapeutischen Wirkstoffen, Dosierung, Handlungsmechanismen, Schwangerschaft, Indikationen und Nebenwirkungen. - Behandelt Transfusionsmedizin, Stammzellentransplantation, Management zentraler Venenkatheter, Schmerzbehandlung, onkologische Notfalle und Grundlagen der Chemotherapie. Aufgrund seiner Praxisorientierung und des handlichen Formats ist die 3. Auflage des Handbook of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology eine unschatzbare Quelle fur Medizinstudenten, Praktikanten, Patienten, Fach- und Pflegepersonal in der padiatrischen Hamatologie und Onkologie, Kinderarzte und Einsteiger in das Fachgebiet der Hamatologie und Onkologie.

Based on a conference that assembled experts in the field of pediatric compliance in chronic illness, this book presents the latest data and conceptual models of adherence to treatment and recommendations for new directions in the field. Interdisciplinary in approach, the contributors represent a broad array of disciplines, including anthropology, pediatrics, psychology, and sociology.
Designed to address critical gaps in the understanding of adherence/compliance to treatment regiments for children with chronic health conditions, this book reviews:
*conceptual models used to define adherence treatment and conduct research;
*the influences on treatment adherence to chronic illness in children;
*the impact of adherence to treatment on children's health and psychological development;
*strategies of interventions to promote adherence and reduce noncompliance rates;
*methodological and measurement problems in the assessment of treatment adherence; and
*recommended research priorities for the measurement of adherence and applications of interventions and training in the treatment of pediatric chronic illness.

The Borderline Psychotic Child reviews the history and evolution of the borderline diagnosis for children, both in the USA and the UK, bringing the reader up to date with current clinical opinion on the subject. Using a range of clinical case studies, the book attempts to harmonise US and UK views on borderline diagnosis in the light of new developments in theory at The Menninger Clinic, The Anna Freud Centre and The Tavistock Clinic. Providing an introduction to the borderline concept, and a systematic overview of current theoretical thinking and clinical practices from leading practitioners in the field, The Borderline Psychotic Child will make informative reading both for professionals and students in the field of child analysis.

This book's thoughtful and accurate balance of developmental, clinical-diagnostic, and experimental approaches to child and adolescent psychopathology is accessible to a broad range of readers. Up-to-date and forward-looking, the book continues to provide the most authoritative, scholarly, and comprehensive coverage of these subjects, tracing the developmental course of each disorder and showing how biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors interact with a child's environment. Coverage includes the DSM-IV-TR and dimensional approaches to classification as well as evidence-based assessment and treatment, contemporary research, and the latest theories related to the predominantly inattentive ADHD subtype, early-onset and the developmental propensity model of conduct disorder, the triple vulnerability model of anxiety, the tripartite model in children, depression, and autism.

AutPlay Therapy is a behavioral play-based treatment approach to working with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. This innovative new model contains a parent-training component (wherein the therapist trains parents to do directive play therapy interventions in the home) and can be utilized in any setting where children and adolescents with an autism disorder, ADHD, dysregulation issues, or other neurodevelopmental disorders are treated. This comprehensive resource outlines the AutPlay Therapy process and offers a breakdown of treatment phases along with numerous assessment materials and over 30 directive play therapy techniques.