Synopses & Reviews
This state-of-the-art volume brings together leading experts in the field to update and expand the acclaimed Behavioral Assessment of Childhood Disorders, Second Edition. Incorporating the latest empirical findings, conceptual developments, and assessment methods and strategies for a comprehensive array of childhood disorders and child health risks, the new third edition highlights the ongoing interplay among behaviors, cognitions, and affects as they unfold within the child's social network. Packed with up-to-date information and solidly grounded in recent advances in child psychology and developmental psychopathology, Assessment of Childhood Disorders, Third Edition, is an invaluable text and clinical reference in this rapidly changing field. This book will be of value to practitioners, researchers, and students in child clinical psychology and related fields.
Review
"As in previous editions of Assessment of Childhood Disorders, Mash and Terdal have assembled the leaders in Childhood Psychopathology for this third edition. The topics addressed in each chapter are critical ones for the changing field of childhood disorders. This volume will serve as the handbook for the assessment of disorders of children for years to come!" --Rex Forehand, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Behavioral Research; Research Professor of Psychology, The University of Georgia
"An invaluable resource and a very practical guidebook for students, clinicians and researchers." --Donald Meichenbaum, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo
"Assessment of Childhood Disorders is an excellent addition to the literature. The book is comprehensive and timely, and offers readers a wealth of information about children's disorders. Each chapter is written by experts in their fields. All clinicians working with children will benefit from reading this book. It will also prove valuable in graduate courses in assessment and child psychopathology. The editors are to be congratulated for their work!" --Jerome M. Sattler, PhD, Psychology Department, San Diego State University
Review
"In the truly remarkable introductory chapter, the book describes a uniquely comprehensive and well-thought-through model for integrating evidence-based assessment with knowledge on the multiple contexts and domains of child and family functioning. Subsequent chapters, organized by this overarching model, present diverse measures across common developmental themes. The book will guide researchers and clinicians in comprehensive case formulation and evaluation of clinical and adaptive functioning. It would also be an excellent core text for graduate-level courses in psychopathology or clinical assessment."--Alan E. Kazdin, PhD, Department of Psychology, Yale University "Mash and Barkley offer the field an incredible resource with this fourth edition. Leading experts provide the latest information on assessing a broad range of disorders, covering diagnostic criteria and processes; parent, teacher, and self-report instruments; reliability and validity of measures; and strategies for working with individuals, families, and other practitioners. The developmental systems approach taken throughout the text represents a cutting-edge perspective on child and adolescent assessment. Professionals and graduate students will find this an up-to-date, forward-thinking work that will have a strong impact on both research and practice."--Karen R. Harris, EdD, Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University "Synthesizing a wealth of theoretical, empirical, and practical information, this fourth edition is a tour de force. Despite the titles emphasis on assessment, the volume moves beyond diagnosis per se to address the many biological and contextual influences on childrens functioning. Its recommendations are informed by current perspectives on converging etiological factors, developmental and situational variations in the manifestations of problems, and the importance of considering both dimensional and categorical models of problem behavior. All serious scholars of child and adolescent psychopathology will want to have this classic work in their library."--Susan B. Campbell, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh "Emphasizing a developmental systems approach, and written by experts in the field, this fourth edition is a 'must read' for experienced professionals and students alike. Comprehensive in scope and highly readable, the text is well suited for use in the upper-level undergraduate or graduate classroom. Within its pages, professionals will find a wealth of practical information to guide their work with children, adolescents, and families suffering from early-onset behavioral health disorders. I highly recommend this book."--Daniel F. Connor, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Medical School
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"For almost 30 years, Assessment of Childhood Disorders has served as a guide to the tools used in clinical assessments as well as the issues....Perfect for graduate students and practicing clinicians, as well as behavioral science researchers interested in getting up to date on conditions that may relate to their own work....Much has changed since the last time the text was published (in 1997), and so those who benefited from the earlier edition would do well to update their libraries with this one."--Metapsychology Online Reviews
Synopsis
A bestseller with over 150,000 copies in print, this popular guidebook offers an exhaustive checklist of thousands of words and phrases in an easily accessible format. Enabling practitioners to quickly select the appropriate terms to describe almost every clinical situation, it makes constructing meaningful reports easier than ever before.
Synopsis
This volume describes cutting-edge methods and strategies for assessing a comprehensive array of childhood disorders, child health risks, and adolescent problems. Contributors highlight the ongoing interplay among behaviors, cognitions, and affects as they unfold within the young person's social network. Each chapter presents a conceptual framework for understanding the problem at hand, discusses assessment procedures that can be used to inform clinical interventions, and reviews the available empirical data. A major emphasis is placed on the family and the broader social environment, both as a context for understanding the child's strengths and weaknesses and as a focus for assessment and intervention. Also addressed are such contemporary themes as the need for developmental and cultural sensitivity in assessment, combining categorical diagnosis with dimensional classification, assessment as a decision-making process, and prevention-oriented assessments.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Eric J. Mash, PhD, is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary. He has served as an editor, editorial board member, and editorial consultant for many scientific and professional journals; and has published numerous books and journal articles.
Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Barkley has published numerous books and five assessment scales, plus more than 260 scientific articles and book chapters on ADHD, executive functioning, and childhood defiance. He is also the editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, he is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association, and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. His website is www.russellbarkley.org.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
1. Assessment of Child and Family Disturbance: A Developmental-Systems Approach, Eric J. Mash and John Hunsley
II. Behavior Disorders
2. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Bradley H. Smith, Russell A. Barkley, and Cheri J. Shapiro
3. Conduct and Oppositional Disorders, Robert J. McMahon and Paul J. Frick
4. Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse, Ken C. Winters, Tamara Fahnhorst, and Andria Botzet
III. Mood Disorders and Suicide Risk
5. Child and Adolescent Depression, Karen D. Rudolph and Sharon F. Lambert
6. Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, Eric Youngstrom
7. Adolescent Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Harm Behaviors and Risk, David B. Goldston and Jill S. Compton
IV. Anxiety Disorders
8. Anxiety in Children and Adolescents, Michael A. Southam-Gerow and Bruce F. Chorpita
9. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Kenneth E. Fletcher
V. Developmental Disorders
10. Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sally Ozonoff, Beth L. Goodlin-Jones, and Marjorie Solomon
11. Early-Onset Schizophrenia, Michael G. McDonell and Jon M. McClellan
12. Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation), Benjamin L. Handen
13. Learning Disabilities, Deborah L. Speece and Sara J. Hines
VI. Children at Risk
14. Child Abuse and Neglect, Claire V. Crooks and David A. Wolfe
15. Child Sexual Abuse, Vicky Veitch Wolfe
VII. Problems of Adolescence
16. Eating Disorders, Eric Stice and Carol B. Peterson
17. Personality Disorders, Rebecca L. Shiner