Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior
Product Description
An invaluable guide for working with children and adolescents with behavioral disorders, emotional disorders, or both
Featuring contributions from renowned experts such as Gerald Fuller, Eugenio Rothe, John Lockman, Charles Casat, Freddy Paniagua, and Nancy Winters, Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior details how to use the behavioral assessment process to develop effective treatment and rehabilitation plans for various child and adolescent psychological and psychiatric disorders.
This comprehensive guide features step-by-step instruction for successful identiÞcation and diagnosis of various behavioral/emotional disorders as well as suggestions for treatment on specialized topics such as Asperger’s Syndrome, eating disorders, and disruptive behavior. Carefully edited by H. Booney Vance and Andres Pumariega, it offers the mental health practitioner a wealth of practical information not only on state-of-the-art clinical assessment procedures and techniques but also on applied intervention strategies for each disorder, along with instructive case studies and vignettes. The book also examines the use of medication as part of an integrated treatment approach to managing these challenging behaviors.
Addressing the critical advances made in the Þeld in recent years, Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior represents an important step in bridging the gap between various disciplines and improving clinical practice with infants, children, and youth.
Topics covered include:
- Anxiety disorders
- Attention-DeÞcit disorder
- Bulimia and anorexia nervosa
- Child abuse and psychic trauma
- Communicative disorders
- Disorders of infancy and early childhood
- Learning disorders
- Mood disorders
- Pediatric brain injury
- Pervasive developmental disorders
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
- Socially and emotionally maladjusted children and youth
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior
Rocco B. Rubino said,
Wrote on June 11, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
This book by Drs. Vance and Pumeriega (East Tennessee University) provides the practioner extensive treatment, of the most effective approaches to the identiying and diagnosing of disorders in infants, children adn adolescents.The authors provide encylopedic detail about the cutting-edge treatment and intervention approaches.
This text offers points of view from the disciplines of school psychology, clinical child psychology, developmental pediatrics, child and adolescent psychiatry, and child psychopathology. Topics covered run the gamut from mood and axiety disorders, eating disorders and behavior disorders.
A first-class resouce. Very useful adjuct text in my child psychology class.
Rating: 5 / 5
Marcela Pizarro said,
Wrote on June 11, 2010 @ 8:56 pm
This is a required text for one of my classes. I saved over 50% by shopping on amazon.com. This is identical to the books purchased by other students.
Rating: 5 / 5