Assessment of Childhood Disorders, Fourth Edition

Eric J. Mash, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Calgary and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health and Science University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and of the Society of Clinical Psychology, the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice, the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and the Society of Pediatric Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Mash is also a Fellow and Charter Member of the Association for Psychological Science. He has served as an editor, editorial board member, and editorial consultant for numerous journals and has published widely on child and adolescent psychopathology, assessment, and treatment. Russell A. Barkley, PhD, ABPP, ABCN, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Dr. Barkley has worked with children, adolescents, and families since the 1970s and is the author of numerous bestselling books for both professionals and the public, including Taking Charge of ADHD and Your Defiant Child. He has also published six assessment scales and more than 280 scientific articles and book chapters on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, executive functioning, and childhood defiance, and is editor of the newsletter The ADHD Report. A frequent conference presenter and speaker who is widely cited in the national media, Dr. Barkley is past president of the Section on Clinical Child Psychology (the former Division 12) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. He is a recipient of awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the APA, among other honors.

I. Introduction

1. Assessment of Child and Family Disturbance: A Developmental–Systems Approach, Eric J. Mash and John Hunsley

II. Behavior Disorders

2. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Bradley H. Smith, Russell A. Barkley, and Cheri J. Shapiro

3. Conduct and Oppositional Disorders, Robert J. McMahon and Paul J. Frick

4. Adolescent Substance Use and Abuse, Ken C. Winters, Tamara Fahnhorst, and Andria Botzet

III. Mood Disorders and Suicide Risk

5. Child and Adolescent Depression, Karen D. Rudolph and Sharon F. Lambert

6. Pediatric Bipolar Disorder, Eric Youngstrom

7. Adolescent Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Self-Harm Behaviors and Risk, David B. Goldston and Jill S. Compton

IV. Anxiety Disorders

8. Anxiety in Children and Adolescents, Michael A. Southam-Gerow and Bruce F. Chorpita

9. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Kenneth E. Fletcher

V. Developmental Disorders

10. Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sally Ozonoff, Beth L. Goodlin-Jones, and Marjorie Solomon

11. Early-Onset Schizophrenia, Michael G. McDonell and Jon M. McClellan

12. Intellectual Disability (Mental Retardation), Benjamin L. Handen

13. Learning Disabilities, Deborah L. Speece and Sara J. Hines

VI. Children at Risk

14. Child Abuse and Neglect, Claire V. Crooks and David A. Wolfe

15. Child Sexual Abuse, Vicky Veitch Wolfe

VII. Problems of Adolescence

16. Eating Disorders, Eric Stice and Carol B. Peterson

17. Personality Disorders, Rebecca L. Shiner