Interviewing Children and Adolescents, First Edition: Skills

Interviewing Children and Adolescents, First Edition: Skills and Strategies for Effective DSM-IV Diagnosis

This highly practical volume provides a complete guide to conducting an age-appropriate child or adolescent interview and formulating a clinically useful DSM-IV diagnosis. Illuminating both the art and the science of child diagnosis, the book blends astute advice on the interview process with crucial information on a wide range of mental and behavioral disorders. Readers learn effective approaches to communicating with children and adolescents on a level they can understand; eliciting information from patients whose verbal and cognitive abilities may be limited; and recognizing how disorders may present in children of different ages.
Country USA
Brand The Guilford Press
Manufacturer The Guilford Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781572307179
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Interviewing Children and Adolescents, First Edition: Skills and Strategies for Effective DSM-IV Diagnosis