This guide is designed to answer the key questions that all parents ask about breastfeeding. It includes the latest information and medical research on breastfeeding your baby and covers newborn babies through to weaning your child. Revised by Professor Frank Oberklaid of the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne.
Recently updated and in its third edition, this valuable handbook is a must for all parents. Your Child's Health has proven again and again that parents don't take any chances with the health of their children. Written by Australian experts for Australian parents, Your Child's Health - has three, easy-to-use sections ranging from the practical and everyday information to looking after your child's health. - lists an A-Z of medical symptoms and treatments, and when to treat at home and when to go to the doctor. - provides national emergency numbers, and places to go when you need help. - is written by two doctors (and parents!) dedicated to providing the ultimate in health care for children.
This book has three sections covering practical information on looking after your child's health. Lists an A-Z of medical symptoms and treatments and whether to treat at home or go to the doctor.
Practical guide containing an A-Z of symptoms and treatments for children's ailments as well as covering topics such as accident prevention, immunisation, medical procedures and tests. Practical guide containing an A-Z of symptoms and treatments for children's ailments as well as covering topics such as accident prevention, immunisation, medical procedures and tests. Also presents advice on parenting, from pregnancy onwards. Indexed. Kaminsky is a GP with an interest in paediatrics. Her other publications include 'The ABC Guide to Poisons'. Oberklaid is director of the centre for community child health and ambulatory paediatrics at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He is a regular commentator on child health on the ABC radio program 'Life Matters'.
Discusses physical and emotional needs of children 1 to 2 years, looking at issues such as tantrums, toilet training, sleeping; Includes the milestones in development of physical skills, fine motor skills, cognitive and emotional development with suggestions for activities at each level.
This is one of the standard international textbooks on child and adolescent mental health. Its strengths lie in its up-to-date, evidence-based approach to practical clinical issues and its comprehensive multidisciplinary perspective. A well-established and popular comprehensive textbook, it combines the shared knowledge, experience and expertise of three major, internationally recognised, academic and clinical practitioners in this field. It covers all aspects of developmental psychology, behavioural and emotional disorders, types of therapy and prevention, with a special emphasis on developmental considerations and on ways in which physical health and psychological problems interact. The up-to-date content gives scholarly overviews of all relevant areas including genetics, neurodevelopment, developmental psychology, attachment theory, social aspects, service provision and child and adolescent mental health. The new edition also includes comprehensive sections on developmental disabilities, as well as adolescence and psychological aspects of physical disorder in young people. Updated throughout, the 'Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' provides necessary and useful information for all professionals dealing with emotionally, behaviourally and developmentally disordered children and their families. It will be essential for all trainees in child and adolescent mental health, as well as paediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, speech and language therapists, social workers, clinical service managers and commissioners.
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