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"... this book [is] for all helping professions - counseling, psychology, social work, and family therapists - who work directly with children and adolescents... The purpose of this book is to help students learn to integrate theory and practice by studying how practitioners have applied clinical principles to particular case situations in the real world... There are six sections to this book: 1. Common disorders of childhood; 2. Individual and family treatment; 3. Group treatment; 4. School-based treatment; 5. Child welfare; 6. Using practice evaluation."--Preface.