Handbook of Assessment in Childhood Psychopathology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Basic Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Historical Trends in the Recognition and Assessment of Childhood Psychopathology

      • Cynthia L. Frame, Johnny L. Matson

      Pages 3-12

   3. Theoretical Approaches to Assessment and Treatment

      • Edward A. Konarski Jr., Jean Spruill

      Pages 13-32

   4. Diagnostic Classification Systems in Child Psychopathology

      • Juan E. Mezzich, Ada C. Mezzich

      Pages 33-60

3. Methods of Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Standardized and Projective Tests

      • Thomas M. DiLorenzo

      Pages 63-78

   3. Questionnaires and Checklists

      • Steven Beck

      Pages 79-106

   4. Neuropsychological, Physiological, and Biochemical Assessment

      • Amos Zeichner

      Pages 107-129

   5. Behavioral Assessment

      • Maribeth Gettinger, Thomas R. Kratochwill

      Pages 131-161

   6. Interviewing and Report Writing

      • Barry A. Edelstein, Ellen S. Berler

      Pages 163-184

4. Assessment of Specific Disorders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

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   2. Developmental Learning Disorders

      • Barbara Tylenda, Stephen R. Hooper, Rowland P. Barrett

      Pages 187-217

   3. Severe Developmental Disabilities

      • Helen Evans, Eliezer Schwartz

      Pages 219-250

   4. Conduct Problems

      • William I. Gardner, Christine L. Cole

      Pages 251-270

   5. Assessment of Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity

      • Richard J. Morris, Scott J. Collier

      Pages 271-321

   6. Infantile Disorders and Childhood Schizophrenia

      • Sandra L. Harris

      Pages 323-340

   7. Depression

      • Lynn P. Rehm, Barbara Gordon-Leventon, Carolyn Ivens

      Pages 341-371

   8. Anxiety Disorders

      • Greta Francis, Thomas H. Ollendick

      Pages 373-400

   9. Selected Chronic Physiological Disorders I

      • Ronald Neeper, Anthony Iezzi

      Pages 401-431

One of the most important practical problems in child psychology and psychia­ try is the differential diagnosis of emotional disorders. Until recently, the gener­ al mode of assessment had been to apply to children the characteristics of psychopathology that were evident in adults. In addition, there had been few assessment tools available for use with children aside from modified versions of adult instruments. Understandably, this approach was controversial, and dissat­ isfaction with it led to the more recent knowledge that adult and child problems may be manifested quite differently. The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders takes these factors into account much more extensively than previous editions. Furthermore, a great deal of research on methodology in child assessment procedures has emerged recently. Yet, in spite of these advances, practicing clinicians are still frequently at a loss in moving from the characteristics of the disturbed child before them to the final assign­ ment of a psychiatric diagnosis. The focus of this book is to outline the various methods of viewing and categorizing the wide range childhood psycho­ pathology, with special emphasis on the end product of making a differential diagnosis. Our goal was to make this book unique in several ways. First, we attempted to cover a wider range of disorders than is typical in currently available hand­ books.

• Assessment
• Depression
• Evaluation
• attention
• attention deficit
• attention deficit disorder (ADD)
• diagnosis
• hyperactivity

• University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA

  Cynthia L. Frame

• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

  Johnny L. Matson

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