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Interviewing Children and Adolescents: Skills and Strategies for Effective DSM-IV Diagnosis
Interviewing Children and Adolescents Skills and Strategies for Effective DSMIV Diagnosis Author:James Morrison, Thomas F. Anders 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 beh... more »avioral 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.« less