Pediatrics

Disease Management provides a holistic approach to patient care by considering the diverse clinical issues surrounding medicines management. This textbook includes a comprehensive introduction to disease states and to prescribing considerations commonly, but not exclusively, encountered in primary c... More

Nursing newborns, picky toddlers, fouryear-olds with bizarre food preferences-at every age, parents are concerned with what their children eat. In this indispensable, straight-to-the-point guide, Brazelton and Sparrow apply their warm and supportive Touchpoints approach to food issues throughout chi... More

The only book to provide the doctor's and patient's view, and gives you practical answers to your questions about treatment options, coping strategies. Written by a asthma expert, and featuring insider's advice from an actual patient.... More

This volume, The Low Birth Weight Baby, is a timely update of progress in a field that has tended to be neglected in recent years. Although we are yet to discover a method to precisely predict the occurrence of preterm labour, there have been spectacular improvements in the prospects for survival of... More

This manual is meant for nursing students, PG students and practising neonatologists. It is a must-buy for all maternity/nursing homes and hospitals. The book gives valuable step by step tips on handling neonatal emergencies and in otherwise managing the running of the Neonatal Care Unit in hospital... More

Children’s healthy growth and development are the foundation of cognitive and social development, healthy adolescence and adult life. Recently, a study ‘The Global Burden of Disease Study’ has been conducted to produce a useful evidence-based approach to public health policy formulation with c... More

This book documents and builds on the experiences of a team of special educators in south India who have been experimenting with a new and better strategy for providing services to children with special needs. This approach is based on training rehabilitation workers in physiotherapy, occupational t... More

Fourteen-year-old Eric is plagued by thoughts that germs on his hands could be making his family sick. Kelly, age 8, feels distressed if she can't count her pencils in multiples of four. No one wants to get rid of OCD more than they do--that's why Talking Back to OCD puts the power to beat obsession... More

Fourteen-year-old Eric is plagued by thoughts that germs on his hands could be making his family sick. Kelly, age 8, feels distressed if she can't count her pencils in multiples of four. No one wants to get rid of OCD more than they do--that's why Talking Back to OCD puts the power to beat obsession... More

Because of an increased awareness for early diagnostic and management of congenital heart disease, pediatric echocardiography has progressed recently in a major way. This concise, step-by-step guide and the accompanying CD-ROM provide those just beginning to work in the echo lab with the basic infor... More

"The Anxiety Cure is a warm, wise, and thoroughly wonderful book for people with anxiety disorders and for everyone who cares about them." -- From the Foreword by Jerilyn Ross, M.A., L.I.C.S.W., President, Anxiety Disorders Association of America, and author of Triumph Over Fear "The Anxiety Cure is... More

With places at nursery school promised for every child above the age of four, this book raises the stakes by looking at the quality of what is provided, and how that compares to what should be provided. "Beyond Quality In Early Childhood Education and Care" ""challenges received wisdom and the tend... More

The main intent of this volume is to integrate the theory, research, and practical knowledge that guide current practice in the rapidly growing field of early childhood intervention, and to frame the agenda for its continued growth and maturation. Designed to serve as a core reference for those inte... More

Based on the syllabus of the Institute of Exports certificate exams, this book provides a thorough understanding of the underlying issues involved in developing and managing cross-border trade.The Handbook of International Trade is both a "textbook" for students and a handbook for practitioners. The... More

This book offers a survey of the historical and theoretical development of the filial therapy approach and presents an overview of filial therapy training and then filial therapy processes. The basic approach of filial therapy is to train parents to act as therapeutic agents with their own children ... More

This thoroughly revised and updated reference addresses the drugs and chemicals causing malformations and congenital anomalies in the human fetus-comprehensively reviewing experimental studies in animals and clinical data on human development, primarily in the organogenesis period. Addressing curren... More

Written by two respected clinician-teachers in pediatric dermatology with a total of thirty-five years experience, Handbook of Pediatric Dermatology presents simple, basic approaches to problems that pediatricians and dermatologists see in their practice on a regular basis. With approximately 300 co... More

This book sets out the basis for addressing the individual needs of children with a wide range of visual impairments within the Code of Practice. It includes information about opthalmics; the identification and assessment of aspects of vision, and the role of different agencies likely to be involved... More

The definitive guide to caring for your premature infant--in a newly revised and expanded edition. The comprehensive and acclaimed guide to everything you need to know about your premature baby, from prebirth preparation to home care, is now more up-to-date than ever. This new and expanded edition c... More