Synopses & Reviews
Chronically ill young people face a multitude of adjustment challenges, including academic difficulties and peer and family issues. Filling a crucial void in pediatric psychology, this volume assembles the latest knowledge about the impact of major diseases on learning and behaviour, examines cognitive toxicities associated with current pharmacotherapies and medical procedures, and presents strategies for successfully reintegrating chronically ill students into the classroom.
Review
"Edited by a leader in the field of pediatric psychology, this well-organized, lucid work is a valuable resource for anyone who works with children with chronic illness and their families. The volume's primary focus is unique, and the expert contributors provide well-reasoned, scholarly, and articulate coverage of research and clinical topics. This will be a very welcome addition to the libraries of psychologists, pediatricians, and other health care professionals, as well as students." --Dennis Drotar, PhD, Director, Division of Behavioral Pediatrics and Psychology, Department of Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
"Detailing how chronic illness conditions reciprocally interact with children's cognitive functioning--broadly defined, how illness influences emotions, social relations, adaptation, and mental abilities--this valuable work incorporates knowledge from a variety of disciplines. The book enriches the pediatric psychology literature by articulating the relationship of research and practice in this important area. Chapters on such topics as leukemia, asthma, sickle cell disease, and diabetes clearly model the interrelated aspects of empirical and clinical work." --Michael C. Roberts, PhD, ABPP, Professor and Director, Clinical Child Psychology Program, Human Development Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
"This volume provides a much-needed resource not only for pediatric and developmental psychologists, but also for students and practitioners of various other specialities who care for children with chronic health conditions. Chapters thoughtfully address the interface among medical conditions, their treatments, and the cognitive processes that influence and are influenced by these factors. Particularly impressive is the sophistication with which the authors have melded their discussions of the cognitive aspects and the pathophysiological processes involved in the particular conditions they discuss." --Ellen C. Perrin, MD, Department of Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA
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"A helpful and useful baseline of information for specialists."--Disability Studies Quarterly
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"Primary care practitioners, including pediatric nurse practitioners, may find this book a valuable resource in their work with chronically ill children."--Journal of Pediatric Nursing
Synopsis
As medical science has become increasingly refined and effective, greater numbers of children and adolescents are surviving diseases that previously carried a more guarded prognosis. Yet chronically ill young people face a multitude of adjustment challenges, including academic difficulties and peer and family issues. Filling a crucial void in pediatric psychology, this volume assembles the latest knowledge about the impact of major diseases on learning and behavior, examines cognitive toxicities associated with current pharmacotherapies and medical procedures, and presents strategies for successfully reintegrating chronically ill students into the classroom. Highlighting important new developments in assessment and intervention, the volume emphasizes the need for team-based collaboration and training across hospital, outpatient, and classroom settings.
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As medical science has become increasingly refined and effective, greater n
About the Author
Ronald T. Brown, PhD, ABPP, is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Program Development in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. He also is President-Elect of Section 54 of the American Psychological Association, the Division of the Society of Pediatric Psychology, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He serves on the editorial boards of major journals including the Journal of Pediatric Psychology, the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, and School Psychology Review. Dr. Brown has been the recipient of numerous grant awards from the National Institutes of Health. His previous publications include Medications for School-Age Children: Effects on Learning and Behavior (Guilford Press, 1998), coauthored with Michael G. Sawyer.
Table of Contents
1. Cognition in Chronically Ill Children: A Collaborative Endeavor of Pediatrics and Psychology, Brown and Anderson
Basic Issues
2. The Referral Process: The Pediatrician as Gatekeeper, Wolraich
3. Issues in Assessment of Psychoeducational and Emotional Functioning in Chronically Ill Children, Kupst
Disease Specific Issues
4. Cognitive Consequences of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Brain Tumors in Children, Armstrong and Mulhern
5. Asthma, Lemanek
6. Cognitive and Associated Developmental Deficits in Pediatric HIV Infection, Wolters, Brouwers, and Perez
7. Cognitive Aspects of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus in Childhood, Rovet and Fernandes
8. Neuropsychological Effects of Sickle Cell Disease, Frank, Allison, and Cant
9. Cardiac Conditions, Delamater, Brady, and Blumberg
10. Organ Transplantation, Stewart and Kennard
11. Neuropsychological and Cognitive Sequelae of Seizure Disorders in the School-Aged Child, Hiemenz, Hynd, and Jimenez
12. Chronic Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents, Ewing-Cobbs and Bloom
Special Issues
13. Social Correlates of Chronic Illness, Schuman and LaGreca
14. Reintegration of Chronically Ill Children to the Classroom, Madan-Swain, Fredrick, and Wallander
15. Family Issues Related to Cognitive Aspects of Chronic Illness in Children, Barakat and Kazak
16. Pharmacological Issues and Iatrogenic Effects on Learning, Wartel and DuPaul
17. Summaries, Training, Ethics, and Direction, Anderson and Brown