Title: Interviewing Children and Adolescents
Description: "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 behavioral disorders.

Readers learn effective approaches to communicating with children and adolescents on a level that young people 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"Designed for optimal ease of use, this book will enhance the knowledge and skills of practitioners evaluating children and adolescents in any clinical setting. It also will serve as an indispensable text in courses on child assessment and diagnosis."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Interviewing in child psychiatry, Entretiens (Psychiatrie de l'enfant), Diagnosis, Adolescent, Psychological Interview, Entretiens (Psychiatrie de l'adolescent), Child, Interviewing in adolescent psychiatry, Mental illness, Interviews as Topic, Diagnostics, Diagnostic, Mental Disorders, Methods, Mental illness, diagnosis, Interviews, Adolescence