Family-focused Behavioral Pediatrics

This pocket-size manual describes practical, family-oriented approaches for the evaluation and management of common behavioural and interaction problems that are often resistant to child-centered approaches. These problems - 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 counsellors 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.