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Part 1 The nature of the problem: clinical assessment; the analysis of causes; applied social learning theory - behaviour therapy/modification. Part 2 Taking a history - early influences on behaviour: biological foundations of childhood problems; prenatal and early postnatal influences. Part 3 Preschool children: problems associated with infancy; problems associated with early childhood; developmental disorders; handicap in early childhood and beyond; internalizing and externalizing problems of early childhood. Part 4 The school-going child and early adolescent: problems of middle-childhood; problems related to identity and the self-concept; health care problems. Part 5 Clinical psychology interventions: psychological therapies; parent and child skills training. Part 6 Reviews of 5 major clinical problems: antisocial, disruptive behaviour disorders, Martin Herbert; cognitive behaviour modification with delinquents, Clive Hollin; fears and phobias of childhood, Thomas H.Ollendick and Neville J.King; acute pain in children, Chrissi Ioannou; work with children following disasters, William Yule. Appendices: recording and assessment; interviewing children and parents.