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Book Description
This highly practical volume provides a complete guide to conducting an age-appropriate child or adolescent interview and formulating a clinically useful DSM-IV diagnosis. Illuminating both the art and the science of child diagnosis, the book blends astute advice on the interview process with crucial information on a wide range of mental and behavioral disorders. Readers learn effective approaches to communicating with children and adolescents on a level they can understand; eliciting information from patients whose verbal and cognitive abilities may be limited; and recognizing how disorders may present in children of different ages.
Synopsis
This text provides a guide to conducting an age-appropriate child or adolescent interview and formulating a clinically useful DSM-IV diagnosis. Part one takes readers step-by-step through the interview process, describing the steps needed to establish rapport, what kind of information should be sought, and how it can be obtained. Excerpts from six actual interviews, including an infant interview with a mother and child, are used to demonstrate techniques and strategies for interviewing pre-schoolers, school-aged children and teens. The components of an effective written report are also reviewed. Part two provides detailed diagnostic information about 28 mental and behavioural disorders that are usually first diagnosed in childhood, as well as 32 "adult" disorders as they may be encountered in children.
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