This series of highly practical guides provides social work and health professionals who work with children, adolescents and their families with concise and up-to-date information on children's problems. The guides are designed for use in assessment and intervention with clients and in planning training or therapeutic programmes, and can also be use for teaching purposes.

The 'Hints for Parents' section may be photocopied and given to clients; the questionnaires, checklists and assessment forms that appear in appendices are also copyright free.

Each book in the series is authored by internationally distinguished clinical and forensic psychologists from the USA, UK, Ireland and Australia. The series editor, Martin Herbert, is Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the Royal and Devon Exeter Health Care Trust and Emeritus Professor at the University of Exeter.