Child Health Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23722339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lamia P Barakat (0000-0002-0938-4712, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), Matthew C Hocking (0000-0002-1368-0856, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), Matthew Hocking, Anne E Kazak (0000-0003-0553-0855, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | Handbook of Psychology, Second Edition (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118133880.hop209018 |
| OpenAlex | W2914479251 |
| ISBN | 9781118133880 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 179 |
The field of child health psychology is broad, multifaceted, and multidisciplinary in nature. Encompassing the well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults, it includes an emphasis on health (e.g., absence of disease, health behaviors and prevention), as well as illnesses and injuries (major and minor, chronic and acute), and draws from other specialized areas of psychology, including developmental, clinical, clinical-child, health, social, and family psychology. In collaboration with pediatricians, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, and other health care providers, child health psychologists screen and assess for a variety of issues (e.g., adherence, pain, medical stress and trauma, neurocognitive functioning) and design and implement interventions aimed at reducing distress, promoting adjustment, and maintaining health. Pediatric psychology offers a professional framework consistent with the themes of this child health psychology chapter. In the current summary of child health psychology, we integrate the diverse child health psychology assessment and intervention literature within the parameters of three focused basic assumptions (social ecology as organizing framework, resiliency of patients and families is the norm, and evidence-based assessment and intervention as essential to positive outcomes) and three levels of intervention (universal, selected, indicated/clinical) that are crucial to advancing the health and well-being of children and their families, now and in the future.
Community psychology · Distress · Health care · Health psychology · Intervention (counseling) · Multidisciplinary approach · Pediatric psychology · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Social science · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
Neighborhood, family, and subjective socioeconomic status
Prevention of Pediatric Overweight and Obesity
Defining empirically supported therapies.
Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1999-2004
Community-Based Injury Prevention Interventions
The Cost of Childhood Unintentional Injuries and the Value of Prevention
Behavioral Approaches to Prevention of Childhood Injuries
A meta-systems approach to evidence-based practice for children and adolescents
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |