Description
Book SynopsisIdeal for both novices and advanced practitioners, the new edition of Stanley Greenspan's classic guide outlines a practical process for observing and interviewing children—and organizing and interpreting their unfolding communications.
Highly acclaimed, The Clinical Interview of the Child uses actual interviews with children to show readers how to
• Apply a developmental, biopsychosocial framework for understanding the inner lives of children at different ages and stages
• Observe and assess human development, including emotional and cognitive patterns and perceptual capacities
• Help infants and children to reveal their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors during the clinical interview
• Organize and interpret the interview data by constructing a developmental profile and translating it into DSM-IV-TR diagnostic categories
The third edition has been expanded and revised extensively, with updated theoretical and conceptual foundations; information on higher levels of ego development and reflective and thinking capacities of older children; and a new section on a developmental biopsychosocial model—the developmental, individual-difference, relationship-based (DIR) approach.
An invaluable educational and practical resource, The Clinical Interview of the Child, Third Edition, is an ideal tool for psychiatrists and psychologists, pediatricians, educators, social workers, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, and judges and attorneys dealing with children and families.
Trade ReviewThis book is an outstanding introduction to the theory of mental development. It contributes greatly to the literature by providing a model for assessment and treatment based upon a developmental biopsychosocial framework.
-- Elliott Pae, M.D., * Doody's Health Science Book Review *
Throughout the text, there are many examples of how [Dr. Greenspan] handles given situations, what words he speaks, and how he specifically approaches a given situation. It is at those moments that one best listens in on an expert at work. For the child and adolescent psychiatrist just starting out, these vignettes are true pearls to apply.
-- Sonya Marie Vieira, M.D. and A. Reese Albright, M.D. * Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry *
Table of ContentsAbout the Authors
Chapter 1. Conceptual Foundations: An Overview
Chapter 2. Framework for Systematic Observation of the Child
Chapter 3. Chronological Age- and Phase-Appropriate Illustrations for Each Observational Category
Chapter 4. Clinical Illustrations of Interviews With Children
Chapter 5. Conducting the Interview
Chapter 6. Constructing a Formulation Based on a Developmental Approach
Chapter 7. Interviewing the Parents: Selected Comments
Appendix: A Developmental Biopsychosocial Model for Assessment and Treatment
References
Index
