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Sleep Better!: A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children With Special Needs - Softcover

Durand, Vincent Mark

 
9781557663153: Sleep Better!: A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children With Special Needs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1557663157 ISBN 13: 9781557663153
Verlag: Brookes Publishing Co, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

This book offers professionals and parents step-by-step, "how-to" instructions for addressing a variety of problems and implementing widely tested, largely drug-free techniques that have already helped hundreds of children with special needs.
Convenient features include a ready-to-use sleep diary, behavior log, graphic comparison of various techniques, and a parent-completed interview to pinpoint problems and identify the best course of action.
Personal insights from real families who have struggled with sleepless nights - including the author's own family - illustrate the dramatic improvements that are possible with these proven techniques.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

V. Mark Durand is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology of the University at Albany State University of New York.


V. Mark Durand, Ph.D., is known worldwide as an authority in the area of autism spectrum disorders. He is a professor of psychology at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where he was the founding Dean of Arts & Sciences and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Dr. Durand is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. He has received more than $4 million in federal funding since the beginning of his career to study the nature, assessment, and treatment of behavior problems in children with autism spectrum disorders. Before moving to Florida, he served in a variety of leadership positions at the University at Albany-State University of New York (SUNY-Albany), including Associate Director for Clinical Training for the doctoral psychology program from 1987 to 1990, Chair of the Psychology Department from 1995 to 1998, and Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences from 2001 to 2002. There he established the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at SUNY-Albany. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees — all in psychology—at Stony Brook University.

Dr. Durand was awarded the University Award for Excellence in Teaching at SUNY-Albany in 1991 and in 2007 received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Dr. Durand is currently Co-editor of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, is a member of the Professional Advisory Board for the Autism Society of America, and is on the Board of Directors of the international Association of Positive Behavioral Support. He serves on a number of editorial boards, has reviewed for dozens of journals, and has more than 100 publications on functional communication, educational programming, and behavior therapy. His books include several best-selling textbooks on abnormal psychology,Severe Behavior Problems: A Functional Communication Training Approach (Guilford Press, 1990),Sleep Better! A Guide to Improving Sleep for Children with Special Needs (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1998), andWhen Children Don't Sleep Well: Interventions for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, Therapist Guide(Oxford University Press, 2008). In his leisure time, he enjoys long-distance running and just completed his third marathon.

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Verlag
Brookes Publishing Co
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1557663157
ISBN 13 
9781557663153
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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