Introduction. Historical perspective of failure to thrive.
Failure to thrive: definition, prevalence, manifestation, and effect. Psychosocial short stature: emotional stunting of growth. Feeding/eating behaviour of children who fail to thrive, and parental feeding styles. Parent-child interaction in failure-to-thrive cases. Child-parent attachment behaviour of children who fail to thrive and parental responsiveness. Fabricated or induced illnesses and failure to thrive
Section II. The framework of assessment. A framework of assessment of failure to thrive cases: ecological approach
Section III. Intervention and treatment of failure-to-thrive children and their families. Levels of intervention. Some theoretical approaches to failure-to-thrive intervention. Multidimensional/integrated model of intervention in failure-to-thrive cases. Approaches to failure-to-thrive intervention programmes. Considerations arising from failure-to-thrive intervention research.
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Children who fail to thrive : a practice guide by Dorota Iwaniec. ISBN 047087077X. Published by Wiley in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
