Handbook of infant, toddler, and preschool mental health assessment / edited by Rebecca DelCarmen-Wiggins, Alice Carter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DelCarmen-Wiggins, Rebecca.

Carter, Alice (Alice S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

Mental illness.

Psychodiagnostics.

Behavioral assessment of children.

Child psychiatry.

Infant psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (553 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Handbook of Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Mental Health Assessment brings together, for the first time, leading clinical researchers to provide empirically based recommendations for assessment of social-emotional and behavior problems and disorders in the earliest years. Each author presents state-of-the-art information on scientifically valid, developmentally based clinical assessments and makes recommendations based on the integration of developmental theory, empirical findings, and clinical experience. Though the field of mental health assessment in infants and young children lags behi

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; I. Contextual Factors in Early Assessment; II. Temperament and Regulation in Assessing Disorders in Young Children; III. Diagnostic Issues Relating to Classification and Taxonomy; IV. Measurement Issues; V. Problems in Early Development and State Regulation: Assessing Disorders with an Onset in Infancy or Toddlerhood; VI. Specific Areas of Disturbance: Applying Diagnostic Criteria to Disorders with an Onset in the Preschool Years; VII. Varied Applied Settings for Assessment; Epilogue; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-028687-3

1-280-83535-4

0-19-803299-4

0-19-530280-X

OCLC:

475957305