Iwaniec, Dorota. <br/><br/>
Children who fail to thrive :  a practice guide / 
Dorota Iwaniec. 
 - Chichester, West Sussex, England ;  Hoboken, N.J. :  John Wiley & Sons,  2004. 
 - x, 299 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - 618.92 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-288) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0471497207 (pbk. : alk. paper) 047087077X (hbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Failure to thrive syndrome.<br/>Parent and child.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>618.92