Description
Clinical Practice with Children, 4th Edition
Clinical Practice with Children, 4th Edition provides a developmental framework for understanding and supporting children’s mental health and well-being. The book examines how children’s development is shaped by the ongoing interactions among family relationships, brain development, and the broader social environment, while highlighting risk and resilience factors across each domain.
Covering infancy through middle childhood, the fourth edition helps readers understand how children at different developmental stages typically think, behave, communicate, and form relationships. Developmentally informed approaches to assessment and intervention are illustrated through practical case examples, making the material especially useful for students and clinicians working with children and families.
Key Topics Covered
- Child development from infancy through middle childhood
- Attachment and family relationships
- Brain and neurodevelopment
- Developmental psychopathology
- Social and environmental influences
- Risk and resilience
- Clinical assessment
- Developmentally informed intervention
- Family-centered clinical practice
- Infant and toddler development
- Preschool development
- School-age development
- Children’s social and emotional development
- Observation and clinical case analysis
What’s New in the 4th Edition
- Incorporates approximately a decade of advances in research on:
- Attachment
- Neurodevelopment
- Developmental psychopathology
- Intervention science
- Toddler, preschool, and school-age development are each presented in two focused chapters, making the material easier for students to navigate.
- Updated throughout by coauthor Michael F. Troy, while retaining Douglas Davies’s established conceptual framework and accessible writing style.
- Expanded clinical applications connecting developmental knowledge with assessment and intervention.
Key Features
- Developmental framework for clinical practice.
- Coverage from infancy through middle childhood.
- Clear discussion of risk and protective factors.
- Vivid clinical case examples demonstrate practical applications.
- Observation exercises encourage active learning.
- Quick-reference summaries reinforce the characteristics of each developmental stage.
- Integrates developmental science with clinical assessment and intervention.
Why This Book Is Valuable
This book helps readers:
- Understand children’s development within family and social contexts.
- Recognize how developmental processes influence clinical presentation.
- Identify risk and resilience factors.
- Apply developmental knowledge to assessment and intervention.
- Develop more appropriate, age-sensitive approaches to clinical practice.
Who Should Read This Book?
This book is ideal for:
- Students of Child Psychology
- Clinical psychology students
- Social work students
- Counseling students
- Marriage and family therapy students
- Child and adolescent mental health professionals
- Psychologists, counselors, and therapists working with children
- Professionals involved in child and family services
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