Feeding Problems in Children - 9781846193866

For pediatricians, family and general physicians, mental health professionals, nurses, and other professionals, Southall, a clinical psychologist in the UK, and Martin, a clinical psychologist in pediatrics at the Centre for Research in Eating Disorders, Loughborough U., UK, assemble 15 chapters on severe and persistent feeding problems in children and different approaches to them. Psychologists, pediatricians, speech pathologists, and other specialists from Europe, Australia, and the US stress the difference between feeding problems and eating disorders and explore the relationship between aspects of feeding from a multidisciplinary perspective, with a focus on clinical issues. They address both theoretical frameworks and applications, including the development of feeding skills, the role of health professionals, behavioral approaches, psychoanalytic perspectives, psychophysiological and regulatory mechanisms, the contributions of family and community, the process of nurturing, tube feeding, and assessing and treating children with neurological impairments and chronic conditions. This edition has been revised and expanded to include new contributors, an expanded chapter on cultural aspects, a new chapter on the role of the feeding counselor, an international overview, and a toolkit of checklists, questionnaires, handouts, and other resources. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)