Assessment Of Childhood Disorders - 3rd edition

"An excellent resource....Coverage of disorders is thorough, comprehensive, and illuminating. This book is sure to become one of the definitive texts in the field." Doody's Journal "Mash and Terdal have assembled the leaders in childhood psychopathology for this third edition. The topics addressed in each chapter are critical ones for the changing field of childhood disorders."

--Rex Forehand, PhD

"Continues the excellence of the first two editions....As is the case in all of Mash's edited books, the chapters include not only state-of-the-art assessment information, but also extensive descriptive and conceptual background for each disorder."

--Behaviour Research and Therapy

"All clinicians working with children will benefit from reading this book. It will also prove valuable in graduate courses in assessment and child psychopathology."

--Jerome M. Sattler, PhD

Guilford Publications Web Site, July, 2002

I. Introduction

1. Assessment of Child and Family Disturbance: A Behavioral Systems Approach, Mash and Terdal

II. Behavior Disorders

2. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Barkley
3. Conduct Problems, McMahon and Estes

III. Emotional and Social Disorders

4. Depression in Children and Adolescents, Compas
5. Fears and Anxieties, Barrios and Hartmann
6. Social Relationship Deficits, Bierman and Welsh

IV. Developmental and Health-Related Disorders

7. Mental Retardation, Handen
8. Autistic Disorder, Newsom and Hovanitz
9. Children with Brain Injury, Fletcher and Taylor
10. Health-Related Disorders, Johnson and Rodrigue

V. Children at Risk

11. Child Physical Abuse and Neglect, Wolfe and McEachran
12. Child Sexual Abuse, Wolfe and Birt

VI. Problems of Adolescence

13. Family Conflict and Communication in Adolescence, Foster and Robin
14. Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa, Foreyt and Mikhail
15. Adolescent Substance Use Problems, Vik, Brown, and Myers