Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Assessment, Differential Diagnosis, and Treatment

by Claudio Cepeda

Book Overview

Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents demystifies the interviewing diagnostic process of psychosis in children and adolescents and provides a valuable resource for treatment. Psychotic symptoms have traditionally been rationalized and disregarded as products of the child's imagination. There has been a professional reluctance to acknowledge that children could suffer from severe psychotic disorders akin to adult subjects,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415953642
• ISBN13: 9780415953641
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"