Children who fail to thrive a practice guide / Dorota Iwaniec.
| Author/creator | Iwaniec, Dorota |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, |
| Description | x, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. Historical perspective of failure to thrive. -- Failure to thrive: definition, prevalence, manifestation, and effect. Psychosocial short stature: emotional stunting of growth. Feeding/eating behaviour of children who fail to thrive, and parental feeding styles. Parent-child interaction in failure-to-thrive cases. Child-parent attachment behaviour of children who fail to thrive and parental responsiveness. Fabricated or induced illnesses and failure to thrive -- Section II. The framework of assessment. A framework of assessment of failure to thrive cases: ecological approach -- Section III. Intervention and treatment of failure-to-thrive children and their families. Levels of intervention. Some theoretical approaches to failure-to-thrive intervention. Multidimensional/integrated model of intervention in failure-to-thrive cases. Approaches to failure-to-thrive intervention programmes. Considerations arising from failure-to-thrive intervention research. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2003016091 |
| ISBN | 0471497207 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 047087077X (hbk. : alk. paper) |