| Description |
xvii, 620 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Failure to thrive and pediatric undernutrition: historical and theoretical context -- Epidemiology of inadequate growth -- Effects of undernutrition on growth and development -- Working with families: an overview for providers -- Researching failure to thrive: progress, problems, and recommendations -- Nutrition -- The feeding relationship -- Behavior problems in feeding: individual, family, and cultural influences -- Medical assessment and management and the |
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organization of medical services -- Clinical assessment of growth -- Gastrointestinal problems and disorders -- Cardiopulmonary problems and disorders of the head and neck -- Infectious disease and nutrition -- Neurological and genetic disorders -- Endocrine disorders -- Adverse reactions to food -- Anemia, lead exposure, renal disease, and dental caries -- Effects of prenatal exposures to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs -- Diagnostic coding of children with failure to |
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thrive -- Managed care as part of family-centered service systems -- Pediatric undernutrition and managed health care -- Interdisciplinary teamwork -- Oral-motor skills and swallowing -- Detecting communication difficulties in infants and toddlers who have feeding difficulties -- Nutrition services in early intervention programs -- Cultural issues in provider-parent relationships -- Family routines and the feeding process -- Home-visiting intervention for families of |
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children who experience growth delay -- Psychological issues and infant-parent psychotherapy -- Toward understanding the role of attachment in malnutrition -- Child protective services -- Nutrition in child care -- Community food and nutrition programs -- Program evaluation -- Coordination of services -- Advocacy for children and families -- Pediatric undernutrition and public policy -- PROCESS: Pediatric Review and Observation of Children's Environmental Support and |
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Stimulation -- The NCAST feeding scale -- The feeding scale -- AIMS: developmental indicators of emotional health -- Food diary, questionnaire about growth and nutrition, growth plotting aid, reference data on weight gain during the first 2 years of life, conversion of pounds and ounes to grams and of inches to centimeters, growth charts for low birth weight infants, parent-specific adjustments for evaluation of length. |
| Subject |
Failure to thrive syndrome.
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Malnutrition in children.
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Child Nutrition Disorders.
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Failure to Thrive.
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Developmental Disabilities.
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| Added Author |
Kessler, Daniel B.
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Dawson, Peter, 1938-
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| ISBN |
1557663483 |
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