Introduction: What do we mean by emotional and behavioural difficulties? / Paul Cooper -- pt. 1. Understanding Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 1. Educating children with emotional and behavioural difficulties: the evolution of current thinking and provision / Paul Cooper. 2. Emotional and behavioural difficulties and adolescence / Paul Cooper. 3. Sex differences, gender issues and emotional and behavioural difficulties / Pam Maras and Paul Cooper. 4. Cultural issues in child and adolescent psychiatry / Harry Zeitlin and Rafik Refaat -- pt. 2. The Assessment of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 5. The assessment of children with emotional and behavioural difficulties: psychometrics and beyond / David Jones and Melanie Jones. 6. The psychiatric examination/interview / Vinod Kumar -- pt. 3. Supporting Children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties. 7. Cognitive, behavioural and systemic approaches to coping with emotional and behavioural difficulties in children / David Jones. 8. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties / Biddy Youell. 9. Working with vulnerable children: early intervention / Helen Barrett. 10. Coping with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties in the primary classroom / Diane Montgomery. 11. Supporting 'able misfits' in the primary classroom / Diane Montgomery. 12. Teaching children who have profound and multiple learning difficulties / Rob Ashdown. 13. Parenting and children with emotional and behavioural difficulties / Peter Lloyd Bennett. 14. The further evolution of emotional and behavioural difficulties: bringing the biopsychosocial approach into education / Paul Cooper
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