Assessing Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities

by Matson, Johnny L.; Andrasik, Frank; Matson, Michael L.

• ISBN13: 9780387095271
• ISBN10: 0387095276
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Not long ago, conducting child assessment was as simple as stating that "the child gets along with others" or "the child lags behind his peers." Today's pediatric psychologists and allied professionals, by contrast, know the critical importance of using accurate measures with high predictive quality to identify pathologies early, form precise case conceptualizations, and provide relevant treatment options.

Author Biography

Johnny L. Matson, is Professor and Distinguished Research Master and Director of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. He is the author of 29 books and more than 350 scientific papers and book chapters. His area of clinical and research interests are developmental disabilities, autism, and severe child psychopathology.Frank Andrasik holds the positions of Professor of Psychology at the University of West Florida and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He has published approximately 200 articles and chapters and has delivered more than 450 talks on the topics of pain, stress, biofeedback, developmental disability, psychiatry, and organizational behavior management; he has also produced several texts for professionals. His most recent published texts are Biofeedback: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd edition (Guilford, $80), co-edited with Mark S. Schwartz in 2003, and Comprehensive Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology, Volume Two: Adult Psychopathology (Wiley, $200), an edited volume that has just been released (with a publication date of 2006). He belongs to a number of professional societies, holding the status of Fellow in the American Psychological Association (Division of Health Psychology and Society of Clinical Psychology), American Psychological Society, and Society of Behavioral Medicine, and serving as President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback in 1993-1994.Michael L. Matson is a student at Louisiana State University. He is co-author of 2 books and 7 scientific papers. His research interests are in the area of developmental disabilities.

Table of Contents

Introduction
History, Overview, and Trends in Child and Adolescent Psychological Assessment	p. 3
Diagnostic Classification Systems	p. 31
Interview and Report Writing	p. 55
Assessment of Specific Problems
Intelligence Testing	p. 91
Rating Scale Systems for Assessing Psychopathology: The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) and the Behavior Assessment System for Children-2 (BASC-2)	p. 117
Neuropsychological Disorders of Children	p. 151
Assessment of Specific Pychopathologies
Assessment of Conduct Problems	p. 185
Evidence-Based Assessment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)	p. 209
Assessment of Mood Disorders in Children and Adolescents	p. 241
Assessment of Bipolar Disorder in Children	p. 273
Assessment of Problems Developmental Disabilities
Academic Assessment	p. 311
Behavioral Assessment of Self-Injury	p. 341
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Comorbid Psychopathology	p. 371
Behavioral Medicine
Assessment of Eating Disorder Symptoms in Children and Adolescents	p. 401
Pain Assessment	p. 445
Assessment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders	p. 471
Index	p. 491
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