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.

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Introduction. Part I: Interviewing Children and Adolescents: A Background for Evaluating Children and Adolescents. Interviewing Informants: The Basics. Structuring the First Interview with the Young Patient. An Introduction to Development: A Variety of Interviews with Children and Adolescents. The Infant/Toddler Interview. Play Interview with a 6-Year-Old Girl. Play Interview with a 7-Year-Old Boy. Interview with a 9-Year-Old Girl. The Adolescent Interview. The Parent Child Initial Interview. The Written Report. Part II: DSM-IV Diagnoses Applicable to Children and Adolescents. Disorders Usually First Diagnosed in Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence. Cognitive Disorders. Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition. Substance-Related Disorders. Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders. Mood Disorders. Anxiety Disorders Somatoform Disorders. Dissociative Disorders. Factitious Disorder and Factitious Disorder by Proxy. Gender Identity Disorder. Eating Disorders. Sleep Disorders. Impulse-Control Disorders Not Elsewhere Classified. Adjustment Disorder. Personality Disorders. Other Diagnostic Codes: Appendix 1. Structured Interviews and Other Reference Materials. Appendix 2. Outline Of DSM-IV Diagnoses.

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