Child Development, Fourth Edition: A Practitioner's Guide

539 Pages·5.011 MB·English

by  Douglas Davies, Michael F. Troy

CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Clinical Practice with Children, Adolescents, and Families
Nancy Boyd Webb, Series Editor
This series presents a broad range of topics relevant for today’s social work­
ers, psychologists, counselors, and other professionals who work with children,
adolescents, and families. Designed for practical use, volumes feature specific
discussions on assessment, interventions, therapeutic roadblocks, the thera­
peutic relationship, and professional and value issues, illuminated by numerous
case examples.
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Douglas Davies and Michael F. Troy
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Social Work in Schools: Principles and Practice
Linda Openshaw
Working with Traumatized Youth in Child Welfare
Nancy Boyd Webb, Editor
Mass Trauma and Violence: Helping Families and Children Cope
Nancy Boyd Webb, Editor
Culturally Competent Practice
with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families
Rowena Fong, Editor
Complex Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology:
A Developmental Approach to Clinical Practice
Vivian B. Shapiro, Janet R. Shapiro, and Isabel H. Paret
Child
Development
A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE
FOURTH EDITION
Douglas Davies
Michael F. Troy
Series Editor’s Note
by Nancy Boyd Webb
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davies, Douglas, 1942–2015 author. | Troy, Michael F.
(Michael Francis), author.
Title: Child development : a practitioner’s guide / Douglas Davies,
Michael F. Troy.
Description: Fourth edition. | New York : The Guilford Press, [2020] |
Series: Clinical practice with children, adolescents, and families |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2019044011 | ISBN 9781462542994 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Social work with children. | Child development.
Classification: LCC HV713 .D375 2020 | DDC 155.402/43613—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019044011
For Douglas Davies, whose wisdom and insight live on
For Tobi Hanna-Davies, who honored Doug
by willing this edition into being
For Cynthia Koehler Troy
and her loving, if irrational, patience with me
—M. F. T.

About the Authors
Douglas Davies, MSW, PhD, until his death in 2015, was Lecturer at the
School of Social Work, University of Michigan. An infant mental health spe­
cialist, he published numerous clinical articles on intervention with toddlers
and parents, traumatized children, and child cancer survivors. Dr. Davies’s
most recent practice was devoted to reflective supervision of mental health
clinicians and child care consultants, consultation to agencies, and training of
clinicians on topics in child development and child therapy. He was inducted
into the National Academies of Practice as a distinguished social work practi­
tioner, and received the Selma Fraiberg Award from the Michigan Association
for Infant Mental Health.
Michael F. Troy, PhD, LP, is a clinical psychologist at Children’s Minnesota,
where he is Medical Director of Behavioral Health Services and Associate
Medical Director of Children’s Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Troy’s clinical and
academic interests include diagnostic classification issues in developmental
psychopathology, models of therapeutic assessment, psychological assessment
of adolescents at risk for major psychopathology, and teaching child clinical
psychology as part of hospital and community medical education programs.
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