"DSM-5 (R) Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health offers trainees and clinicians who provide mental health services to children and adolescents a concise but conceptually and clinically rich guide to the types of disorders commonly found in practice. The cases are either new or updated from the previous publication, which was designed as a child mental health casebook for DSM-IV-TR, and were chosen to illustrate advances in ..."
"In the United States, approximately 20% of children and adolescents have diagnosable mental health problems, with eleven percent significantly impaired. Sadly, most of these afflicted youth are not appropriately diagnosed and treated. For the editors of DSM-IV-TR(R) Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health, this gap in services represents a crisis to which this outstanding volume is their powerful response. Working with an i ..."
"This commentary is written from the perspective of multisystemic therapy (MST;
Henggeler et al. 1998), an evidence-based treatment typically used with
adolescents referred from the juvenile justice system for serious antisocial
behavior that places these youths at ... For purposes of illustration, hypothesized
risk Scott W. Henggeler, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences and Director of ..."
"En este libro se describen treinta casos de niños y adolescentes con trastornos psiquiátricos de complejidad ascendente. Se trata de casos que cualquier profesional de la Salud mental del niño y del adolescente se puede encontrar en la clínica diaria. Cada caso se organiza en cuatro partes: descripción clínica (útil para aprender a tomar una buena historia clínica, señalando los datos más relevantes), perspectiva psicoterapéutica, persp ..."