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A handbook for the assessment of children's behaviours.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (622 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119977469
  • 1119977460
  • 9781119978428
  • 1119978424
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 618.92/89 618.9289
LOC classification:
  • RJ503.5 .W57 2012
NLM classification:
  • WS 105
Online resources:
Contents:
A Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours; Contents; Introduction; Relationship to other aspects of diagnosis; The description of each symptom; The choice of causes in each list; Levels of explanation; The order of each list; Single Symptoms; Ways to get sensitive information from a child or parent; Extending the history; The family's ideas; Choosing causes from a list in this book; Assessment hierarchies; Diagnostic axes; Relating impairment criteria to single problems; Government and family thresholds differ; Unavoidable challenges in making a formulation.
Summary: This ground-breaking book takes a new approach to the assessment of behaviour in children and adolescents. Written by an expert author team, combining one (JW) with higher qualifications in general practice, child neuropsychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, with one (PH) with higher qualifications in medicine, paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry, the book draws on many thousands of multidisciplinary case discussions, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in the Children's Multispecialty Assessment Clinic in North London, and in private practice. The book is ideal for the.
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This ground-breaking book takes a new approach to the assessment of behaviour in children and adolescents. Written by an expert author team, combining one (JW) with higher qualifications in general practice, child neuropsychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, with one (PH) with higher qualifications in medicine, paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry, the book draws on many thousands of multidisciplinary case discussions, at Great Ormond Street Hospital, in the Children's Multispecialty Assessment Clinic in North London, and in private practice. The book is ideal for the.

A Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours; Contents; Introduction; Relationship to other aspects of diagnosis; The description of each symptom; The choice of causes in each list; Levels of explanation; The order of each list; Single Symptoms; Ways to get sensitive information from a child or parent; Extending the history; The family's ideas; Choosing causes from a list in this book; Assessment hierarchies; Diagnostic axes; Relating impairment criteria to single problems; Government and family thresholds differ; Unavoidable challenges in making a formulation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.