Understanding and assessing trauma in children and adolescents
Subtitle: measures, methods, and youth in context
By: Kathleen Nader
Series: Routledge psychosocial stress series -- 35
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780415960731
Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder in children -- Diagnosis; Post-traumatic stress disorder in adolescence -- Diagnosis; Psychic trauma in children -- Diagnosis; Psychic trauma in adolescence -- Diagnosis
Notes: Includes bibliographical reference (p. 417-478) and indexes
Table of contents: title: How children and adolescents are affected by trauma; title: How children and adolescents' brains are affected by trauma; title: Are there different pathways to a symptom or set of symptoms?; title: The nature of assessing traumatized children and adolescents; title: Risk and resilience factors : trauma's mediator, moderator, or outcome variables; title: The nature of the child; title: Culture and family background; title: Attachment; title: Interviewing children and adolescents following traumatic events; title: The nature of the event : assessing exposure levels and complicated reactions; title: Self-reports of trauma symptoms : school-age children and adolescents; title: The use of projective tests in the evaluation of trauma; title: Adult reports : parent, teacher, and clinician assessments of trauma; title: The integration of information following traumas : information processing and dissociation; title: Assessing comorbidity and additional symptoms; title: Writing reports regarding traumatized youths; title: An afterword : some conclusions about assessing trauma in youths