The Clinical Interview of the Child (eBook)

Stanley I. Greenspan (Autor)

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2008 | 3., Third Edition
312 Seiten
American Psychiatric Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-58562-737-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book 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. It outlines proven techniques for helping infants and children to reveal their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors during the clinical interview.

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Ideal 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.

Autor

Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, and Pediatrics at the George Washington University Medical School, Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders, and a supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He was previously Chief of the Mental Health Study Center and Director of the Clinical Infant Development Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. A founder and former president of ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, Dr. Greenspan has been honored with a number of national awards, including the American Psychiatric Association's Ittleson Prize for outstanding contributions to Child Psychiatry Research and the American Orthopsychiatric Association's Ittleson Prize for outstanding contributions to American mental health -- the only individual to receive both Ittleson awards -- and the Strecker Award for outstanding contributions to American psychiatry. He is the author or editor of more than 35 books and monographs and 100 articles and chapters.

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan, a former health economist, writes about children's development and is currently working on a biography of Max Born, the Nobel Peace Prize winning physicist and one of the pioneers in the development of quantum mechanics. She also works on environmental issues.

Inhalt

About the AuthorsChapter 1. Conceptual Foundations: An OverviewChapter 2. Framework for Systematic Observation of the ChildChapter 3. Chronological Age- and Phase-Appropriate Illustrations for Each Observational CategoryChapter 4. Clinical Illustrations of Interviews With ChildrenChapter 5. Conducting the InterviewChapter 6. Constructing a Formulation Based on a Developmental ApproachChapter 7. Interviewing the Parents: Selected CommentsAppendix: A Developmental Biopsychosocial Model for Assessment and TreatmentReferencesIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.5.2008
• Zusatzinfo: 5 tables
• Verlagsort: Washington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 499 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• ISBN-10: 1-58562-737-2 / 1585627372
• ISBN-13: 978-1-58562-737-0 / 9781585627370