Diagnosing and Treating Children and Adolescents

by Brandé Flamez, Carl J. Sheperis

2015 · John Wiley & Sons

A guide to treating mental health issues in children and adolescents Diagnosis and Treatment of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals is a resource tailored to the particular needs of current and future counselors, behavioral healthcare clinicians, and other helping professionals working with this vulnerable population. With in-depth content broken into two sections, this book first provides a foundation in the diagnostic process by covering the underlying principles of diagnosis and treatment planning, and then applies this framework to the DSM-5 categories related to children and adolescents. With research continually reshaping our understanding of mental health, it is critical mental health professionals make decisions based on evidence-based pathways that include the specialized research around children and adolescents. The leading experts who contributed to this book share contemporary perspectives on developmental considerations, assessment information, presenting symptoms, comorbidity, levels of severity, prevalence data, and other relevant factors. Structured content of chapters provides a crosswalk between the DSM-5 and this book Updated content based upon the changes, additions, and revisions to the DSM-5 that affect diagnosis, assessment, and treatment Pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, case studies, guided practice exercises, and additional resources, to support effective learning Diagnosis and Treatment of Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Clinical and School Settings is a critical resource for mental health practitioners and graduate students working toward a career in a mental health profession.

Functional Assessment-Based Intervention

by John Umbreit, Jolenea B. Ferro, Kathleen Lynne Lane, Carl J. Liaupsin

2024 · Guilford Publications

"This book presents a comprehensive system for designing, implementing, and evaluating functional assessment-based interventions (FABI) based on a body of research developed since the early 2000s. In this book, it is illustrated how to conduct a FABI as a Tier 3 intervention for students with intensive intervention needs within integrated tiered systems of support, particularly the comprehensive, integrated, three-tiered (Ci3T) model of prevention. It also features illustrations of how FABIs can be used beyond Ci3T systems, for instance, in schools and preschool centers not yet implementing integrated tiered systems of support, residential facilities, and home settings"--

Autopsy

by Carl Richardson

1992 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Richardson deals chiefly with three films noirs: The Maltese Falcon(1941), The Naked City (1948), and Touch of Evil (1958).