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The history of modern child psychopathology and developmental disabilities is of fairly recent origins. However, of the two topics, intellectual disability (ID) is the area which has received the most attention as a modern science and profession for the longest period of time. In December of 1896 in an address to the American Psychological Association, Lightner Witmer outlined what he descried...
This chapter provides a description and examples of the use of applied behavior analysis (ABA) in the treatment of childhood psychopathology and developmental disabilities. This task is a daunting one given that many of the single topics that are discussed in the following pages can, and have, served as topics for entire chapters and texts. This limitation means we are not able to delve into each...
Increasingly, attention is turning to the significance of children's mental health. This attention results from a confluence of information sources col lectively emphasizing the prevalence of childhood problems. Epidemiologi-cal estimates for the prevalence rates of childhood emotional and behavioral disorders range between 15 and 22% (e.g., McCracken, 1992; Roberts, Att-kisson,&Rosenblatt, 1998;...
Prior to the 1960s, therapy for children typically involved traditional one-on-one sessions with a therapist addressing intrapsychic issues rather than specific behaviors (Kotchick, Shaffer, Dorsey, & Forehand, 2004). However, in the early 1960s a paradigm shift started in regard to psychosocial treatment for children's behavior problems. This paradigm shift was the function of several factors...
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