The third edition of this book provides comprehensive coverage of pediatric medical adherence, including such important topics as the extent of nonadherence and medical consequences, predictors of adherence, theories about adherence and clinical applications, and assessment strategies for adherence and health outcomes. In addition, chapters describe strategies for improving adherence, review research studies on improving adherence, and address ways to improve research on adherence for children and adolescents with chronic diseases. The new edition also examines the developmental aspects of adherence assessment and intervention as well as cultural, ethical, and legal issues in adherence research and practice.Key areas of coverage include: Consequences of nonadherence and correlates of adherence.Developmental aspects related to assessing and improving pediatric medical adherence.Assessing pediatric disease and health status.Cultural, ethical, and legal issues related to pediatric medical adherence.Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens, Third Edition, is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other practitioners in developmental, clinical child and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, pediatrics and pediatric psychology, social work, public health, health psychology, and all interrelated fields.

Chapter 1. Definitions of Adherence, Types of Adherence Problems, and Adherence Rates.- Chapter 2. Consequences of Nonadherence and Correlates of Adherence.- Chapter 3. Adherence Theories: Review, Critique, and Clinical Implications.- Chapter 4. Developmental Aspects Related to Assessing and Improving Adherence.- Chapter 5. Methods for Assessing Adherence and Methodological Issues.- Chapter 6. Assessing Disease and Health Status.- Chapter 7. Strategies for Improving Adherence to Pediatric Medical Regimens.- Chapter 8. Review of Adherence Intervention Studies.- Chapter 9. Top Ten (or Fifteen or Twenty) Ways to Advance Pediatric Medical Adherence.- Chapter 10. Cultural, Ethical and Legal Issues Related to Adherence: Clinical and Research Activities.