Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children: Treatment-Focused Assessment

Breen, Michael J.

ISBN 10: 0898624398 / ISBN 13: 9780898624397

Published by The Guilford Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disruptive Behavior Disorders in Children: Treatment-Focused Assessment
• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0898624398
• ISBN 13: 9780898624397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Children and adolescents deemed "out of control" by parents and educators are among the most commonly referred for professional care. Increased professional and public interest in these children has sparked a proliferation of research focusing on etiologic, diagnostic, and research issues of disruptive behavior disorders. Accordingly, the empirical knowledge base has grown rapidly in richness and complexity. This important volume brings clinical practice up to date with these many new advances in an unusually accessible format, presenting an effective, psychometrically sound, treatment-relevant method of assessment that reflects the state of the art. The authors provide the interdisciplinary professional community with proven, practical, and useful assessment strategies for these too commonly encountered problems. Child clinical and school psychologists, child psychiatrists and exceptional educators, social workers, and pediatricians--all professionals who provide services to children and adolescents suffering form these disorders.

Review

"The author's inclusion of some 60 pages of Appendices (which contain entire questionnaires or brief summaries of useful measures) makes the book an ideal source for in-service training....the various flow charts, check lists, and protocols that are imbedded within chapters provide access to new strategies for initiating or modifying treatment procedures.....The academician involved in training graduate-level students may find this work useful in courses designed to prepare students for practicum work with children and families...Courses in personality assessment, interviewing, and behavior management could use this as a supplementary text....It successfully combines both a research and a clinical perspective with the focus on the child as a member of both a family and an educational environment. The use of multiple sources of information is stressed in assessment, as is the need to monitor proposed treatment plans over an extended period of time. Such an integration of assessment techniques and intervention strategies is particularly useful for children. The authors advocate the use of their comprehensive protocol, yet acknowledge the need for each professional to make modifications as necessary. This comprehensive approach and open attitude prompt both the novice and the experienced clinician to add this valuable book to a working professional library." --"Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment"