Assessment of Childhood Disorders

By J. Douglas Burton

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593854935
• ISBN13: 9781593854935
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 866 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

An up-to-date, comprehensive compendium from the experts

This book is an excellent example of specialists in psychological disorders being willing to speak only on their own specialty, and handoff other disorders to those who are considered premiere in that field. THis is a conglomerate effort from such specialists to give a comprehensive, up-to-date study of the childhood disorders that plague many of the youth of our time. A must have for the child practitioner or school...