Assessment of Childhood Disorders, Fourth Edition

4. New Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-60623-615-4
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 866 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 1568 g

This leading text and clinical guide offers best-practice recommendations for assessing a comprehensive array of child and adolescent mental health problems and health risks. Prominent authorities present evidence-based approaches that can be used in planning, implementing, and evaluating real-world clinical services. Coverage encompasses behavior disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, developmental disorders, maltreatment, and adolescent problems. The volume emphasizes the need to evaluate clients' strengths as well as their deficits, and to take into account the developmental, biological, familial, and cultural contexts of problem behavior.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Youngstrom, Eric A.

Prinstein, Mitchell J.

Mash, Eric

Barkley, Russell A.

Abramowitz, Jonathan S.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction
1. Assessment of Child and Family Disturbance: A Developmental–Systems Approach, Eric J. Mash and John Hunsley
II. Behavior Disorders
2. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Bradley H. Smith, Russell A. Barkley, and Cheri J. Shapiro
3. Conduct and Oppositional Disorders, Robert J. McMahon and Paul J. Frick
4. Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse, Ken C. Winters, Tamara Fahnhorst, and Andria Botzet
III. Mood Disorders and Suicide Risk
5. Child and Adolescent Depression, Karen D. Rudolph and Sharon F. Lambert
6. Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, Eric Youngstrom
7. Adolescent Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Harm Behaviors and Risk, David B. Goldston and Jill S. Compton
IV. Anxiety Disorders
8. Anxiety in Children and Adolescents, Michael A. Southam-Gerow and Bruce F. Chorpita
9. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Kenneth E. Fletcher
V. Developmental Disorders
10. Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sally Ozonoff, Beth L. Goodlin-Jones, and Marjorie Solomon
11. Early-Onset Schizophrenia, Michael G. McDonell and Jon M. McClellan
12. Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation), Benjamin L. Handen
13. Learning Disabilities, Deborah L. Speece and Sara J. Hines
VI. Children at Risk
14. Child Abuse and Neglect, Claire V. Crooks and David A. Wolfe
15. Child Sexual Abuse, Vicky Veitch Wolfe
VII. Problems of Adolescence
16. Eating Disorders, Eric Stice and Carol B. Peterson
17. Personality Disorders, Rebecca L. Shiner

Über Autor(innen)

Eric J. Mash, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Calgary and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and of the Society of Clinical Psychology, the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice, the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and the Society of Pediatric Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Mash is also a Fellow and Charter Member of the Association for Psychological Science. He has served as an editor, editorial board member, and editorial consultant for numerous journals and has published widely on child and adolescent psychopathology, assessment, and treatment.
Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Barkley has worked with children, adolescents, and families since the 1970s and is the author of numerous bestselling books for both professionals and the public, including Taking Charge of ADHD and Your Defiant Child. He has also published six assessment scales and more than 280 scientific articles and book chapters on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, executive functioning, and childhood defiance, and is editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, Dr. Barkley is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. He is a recipient of awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the APA, among other honors.