A Clinician's Guide to Helping Children Cope and Cooperate with Medical Care: An

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This book is for pediatric psychologists, pediatricians, family medicine practitioners, physician's assistants, nurse specialists, pediatric subspecialists, and students in these fields-and for family members dedicated to helping their children cope with medical procedures and to getting the best possible medical care.

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Keith J. Slifer, a pediatric psychologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explores how adults can help children cope with routine and traumatic medical care. He draws on practice and research to help health care practitioners provide better care for children with chronic conditions and children undergoing rehabilitation after traumatic injury or surgery. By better understanding the behavior, emotions, and developmental challenges of children, health care professionals in practice and in training can solve a range of problems, from getting a distressed child to cooperate with a physical examination or diagnostic test, to teaching a child to adhere to medical self-care. More than 9 million children in the United States regularly visit health care professionals for treatment of chronic or recurrent health conditions. These children experience multiple doctors' visits, trips to the emergency department, hospital admissions, anesthesia, surgery, medications, needle sticks, wound cleaning, seizures, nausea, vomiting, pain, and fear.While most of these children are developing typically in terms of their intellectual and cognitive functioning, many children with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities also require frequent medical care, and as chronic health conditions increase, so do the chances of having developmental, learning, emotional, and behavioral problems. A Clinician's Guide to Helping Children Cope and Cooperate with Medical Care will benefit health care professionals and children as practitioners aim both to improve medical care and to prevent the children's behavior from disrupting clinics and distressing and frustrating health care workers and family caregivers. This book is for pediatric psychologists, pediatricians, family medicine practitioners, physician's assistants, nurse specialists, pediatric subspecialists, and students in these fields - and for family members dedicated to helping their children cope with medical procedures and to getting the best possible medical care.

Author Biography

Keith J. Slifer, Ph.D., is the director of the Pediatric Psychology Clinic and Consultation Service at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface1. A Child's Experience of Medical Settings and Health Care2. Introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Principles3. Parent-Child Interactions in Medical Situations4. Fundamentals of General Behavior Management for Parents and Other Caregivers5. Helping Young, Developmentally Delayed, and Highly Anxious Children Cooperate with Routine Physical Examinations6. Helping Children, Parents, and Medical Caregivers Cope with Child Distress and Discomfort during Immunizations7. Cooperation and Motion Control for Diagnostic Tests and Treatments8. Cooperation with Vision and Hearing Tests and Treatments9. Cooperation and Adherence with Breathing Treatments and Respiratory Assistance Technology10. Teaching Children to Swallow Pills and Capsules11. Adherence with Oral Medication and Other Medical Self-Care12. Teaching Children with Chronic Medical Conditions to Cope with Repeated Needle Sticks and Other Painful ProceduresIndex

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Keith J. Slifer, Ph.D., a pediatric psychologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, draws on practice and research to help health care practitioners provide better care for children with chronic conditions and children undergoing rehabilitation after traumatic injury or surgery. By better understanding the behavior, emotions, and developmental challenges of children, health care professionals in practice and in training can solve a range of problems, from getting a distressed child to cooperate with a physical examination or diagnostic test, to teaching a child to adhere to medical self-care. More than nine million children in the United States regularly visit health care professionals for treatment of chronic or recurrent health conditions. These children experience multiple doctors visits, trips to the Emergency Department, hospital admissions, anesthesia, surgery, medications, needle sticks, wound cleaning, seizures, nausea, vomiting, pain, and fear. While most of these children are developing typically in terms of their intellectual and cognitive functioning, many children with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities also require frequent medical care, and as chronic health conditions increase so do the chances of having developmental, learning, emotional, and behavioral problems. A Clinician's Guide to Helping Children Cope and Cooperate with Medical Care will benefit both health care professionals and children as practitioners aim to improve medical care and prevent the childrens behavior from disrupting clinics and distressing and frustrating health care workers and family caregivers. This book is for pediatric psychologists, pediatricians, family medicine practitioners, physicians assistants, nurse specialists, pediatric subspecialists, and students in these fieldsand for family members dedicated to helping their children cope with medical procedures and get the best possible medical care.

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How adults can help children cope with routine and traumatic medical care.

Details ISBN1421411121 Author Keith J. Slifer Audience Age 17 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-10 1421411121 ISBN-13 9781421411125 Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle An Applied Behavioral Approach Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States Birth 1957 DEWEY 362.1083 Media Book Short Title CLINICIANS GT HELPING CHILDREN Language English Pages 304 Illustrations 19 Illustrations, black and white Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-01-26 NZ Release Date 2014-01-26 US Release Date 2014-01-26 UK Release Date 2014-01-26 Alternative 9781421411132 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2013-12-14 We've got this

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