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

James Morrison; Thomas F. Anders

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572305010 ISBN 13: 9781572305014

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1999

Synopsis

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 that young people 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. Clinicians and students from every mental health discipline will appreciate the book's thoroughness, sensitivity, and wealth of real-life applications and examples.

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From the Back Cover

This is a rare example of a masterful text that is also a good read. It contains a wealth of information and clinical pearls, all presented in a practical and clinically relevant form. This volume's sensible descriptions of developmentally appropriate interviewing techniques and the diagnostic process will be of interest to trainees in all the mental health disciplines (Gregory K. Fritz, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital).

About the Author

James Morrison, MD, was educated at Reed College and obtained his medical and psychiatric training at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health Sciences University. He is the author of The First Interview, DSM-IV Made Easy, and When Psychological Problems Mask Medical Disorders, and coauthor (with Thomas F. Anders) of Interviewing Children and Adolescents.

Thomas F. Anders, MD, received his medical training at Stanford University and his psychiatry and psychoanalytic training at Columbia University. He has chaired the divisions of child psychiatry at Stanford University and Brown University, and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis. Currently Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the U.C. Davis School of Medicine, Dr. Anders has long pursued his research interests in pediatric sleep disorders and infant sleep/n-/wake state development.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1572305010
• ISBN 13: 9781572305014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 482