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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.
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Mash (psychology, U. of Calgary, Canada) and Barkley (psychiatry, State U. of New York Upstate Medical U. at Syracuse, and Medical U. of South Carolina) offer a text that contains recommendations for assessing child and adolescent mental health problems and risks. This edition focuses on the best practices rather than comprehensive reviews of methods and issues for evaluating behavior, mood, anxiety, developmental, and eating disorders, and suicide risk, and child abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse. Controversies in assessment, symptoms, impairments, and associated features are discussed. The group of North American contributors is made up of psychologists and psychiatrists, and individuals working in special education, addiction, and mental health. All chapters have been revised for this edition and six are new: on bipolar disorder, suicide and self-harming behaviors, posttraumatic stress disorder, early-onset schizophrenia, learning disabilities, and adolescent personality disorders. The text can be used for undergraduate and graduate courses in child assessment, psychopathology, and therapy, and by mental health clinicians and researchers. Both authors and subjects are indexed. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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