Checkmate Plus Books

Assessment of Childhood Disorders
Third Edition

Edited by Eric J. Mash and Leif G. Terdal

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 categorial diagnosis with dimensional classification, assessment as a decision-making process, and prevention-oriented assessments.

Contents

I. Introduction
1. Assessment of Child and Family Disturbance: A Behavioral Systems Approach, Mash and Terdal
II. Behavior Disorders
2. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Barkley
3. Conduct Problems, McMahon and Estes
III. Emotional and Social Disorders
4. Depression in Children and Adolescents, Compas
5. Fears and Anxieties, Barrios and Hartmann
6. Social Relationship Deficits, Bierman and Welsh
IV. Developmental and Health-Related Disorders
7. Mental Retardation, Handen
8. Autistic Disorder, Newsom and Hovanitz
9. Children with Brain Injury, Fletcher and Taylor
10. Health-Related Disorders, Johnson and Rodrigue
V. Children at Risk
11. Child Physical Abuse and Neglect, Wolfe and McEachran
12. Child Sexual Abuse, Wolfe and Birt
VI. Problems of Adolescence
13. Family Conflict and Communication in Adolescence, Foster and Robin
14. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, Foreyt and Mikhail
15. Adolescent Substance Use Problems, Vik, Brown, and Myers

Reviews

"An excellent resource....Coverage of disorders is thorough, comprehensive, and illuminating. This book is sure to become one of the definitive texts in the field." Doody's Journal "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."
-Rex Forehand, PhD

"Continues the excellence of the first two editions....As is the case in all of Mash's edited books, the chapters include not only state-of-the-art assessment information, but also extensive descriptive and conceptual background for each disorder."
-Behaviour Research and Therapy

"All clinicians working with children will benefit from reading this book. It will also prove valuable in graduate courses in assessment and child psychopathology."
-Jerome M. Sattler, PhD