Child and Adolescent Psychopathology : A Casebook

by Linda Wilmshurst

• ISBN13: 9781412982498
• ISBN10: 1412982499
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-29
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

This text provides an abundance of real-life based cases that illustrate issues in assessing, diagnosing, and treating child psychopathologies. The helpful casebook approach involves students by engaging them in case formulation and diagnosis and by helping them to develop decision-making and problem-solving skills. Through the process of exploring realistic, complex cases, students learn to integrate theory into the research-based assessments and interventions they have already learned and will be better prepared to assess and treat children.

Table of Contents

Case Formulation: The Case of Terry Hogan

Case Formulation From Five Different Perspectives

Biological Perspective

Behavioral Perspective

Cognitive Perspective

Psychodynamic Perspective

Attachment, Parenting, and Family Systems Perspectives

Integrating Theoretical Perspectives: A Transactional Ecological Bio-Psycho-Social Framework

Case Studies

The Early Years

Jeremy Jones: "Mommy and Me and Grandma Makes Three"

(6 years old) Multiple Problems (attention & compliance); Raised by mother and maternal grandmother

Winnie Kent: "Silence is not Golden"

(5 years old) Separation anxiety disorder; Selective mutism

Dylan Bach: "The World According to Dylan"

(6 years old) Asperger's disorder

Bradley Hunter: "Not Yet diagnosed"

(5 years old) Not yet Diagnosed

Middle Childhood

Scott Michaels: "Boys will be Boys?"

(9 years old) Oppositional defiant disorder; ADHD

Sandy Smith: "Marching to the Tune of a Different Drummer"

(8 years old) Nonverbal learning disability

Brian Williams: "My Name is Williams, too"

(10 years old) Williams syndrome

Jordan Neeson: "Let Me Count the Ways"

(9 years old) Obsessive compulsive disorder

Shirley Yong: "Worried to Perfection"

(11 years old) General anxiety disorder; depression, relational aggression; cultural conflict

Matthew Morgan: "Out of Control and In Control"

(9 years old) Child onset bipolar disorder

Neesha Wilson: "Pheonix Rising"

(10 years old) Resilience; multifinality

Ericka White: "Not Yet Diagnosed"

(10 years old) Not yet Diagnosed

Adolescence

Colby Tyler: "Attentional Problems or Distracted by Life?"

(14 years old) ADHD; gifted; divorce

Arthur Watson: "Won't or Can't; A Case of Mistaken Identity"

(15 years old) Intellectual disability; parent denial; academic and behavior problems

Jenny Sloan: "The All American Girl"

(16 years old) Bipolar disorder; suicide attempt

David Steele: "Hopelessness and Despair"

(17 years old) Adolescent depression; suicidal ideation

Sarah Burke: "Food for Thought"

(14 years old) Disordered eating and eating disorders

Jason Coleman: "Disconnected connections"

(16 years old) Conduct disorder; reactive attachment disorder; traumatic childhood

Victoria Benson: "Skin Deep: Cutting Through the Pain"

(16 years old) Self mutilation; borderline personality disorder?

Juan Hernandez: "The Crash"

Post traumatic stress disorder; survivor guilt

Tyrone Wilson: "The Gang's All Here"

(15 years old) Neesha's brother; multifinality; learning and behavior problems; gang activity, forensic assessments; fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Supplemental Case Information

Systems of Classification

Guidelines to the Interpretation of Assessment Scores and Assessment Instruments

The DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000) Diagnostic Guidelines

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