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Providing an abundance of realistic cases illustrating issues in assessing and treating child psychopathologies, this casebook provides students with an opportunity to apply skills in case formulation and diagnosis using fully developed actual practice cases. It assists students in developing their decision-making and problem-solving skills in face of the full complexities of childhood psychopathologies. It′s only through exploring realistic, complex cases that students learn to integrate the theory and research-based assessments and interventions they′ve been learning from textbooks and previous course work.

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• Part I Case Formulation: The Case of Terry Hogan
• Case Formulation From Five Different Perspectives
• Biological Perspective
• Behavioral Perspective
• Cognitive Perspective
• Psychodynamic Perspective
• Attachment, Parenting, and Family Systems Perspectives
• Integrating Theoretical Perspectives: A Transactional Ecological Bio-Psycho-Social Framework
• Part II Case Studies
• The Early Years
• 1 Jeremy Jones: "Mommy and Me and Grandma Makes Three"
• (6 years old) Multiple Problems (attention & compliance); Raised by mother and maternal grandmother
• 2 Winnie Kent: "Silence is not Golden"
• (5 years old) Separation anxiety disorder; Selective mutism
• 3 Dylan Bach: "The World According to Dylan"
• (6 years old) Asperger's disorder
• 4 Bradley Hunter: "Not Yet diagnosed"
• (5 years old) Not yet Diagnosed
• Middle Childhood
• 5 Scott Michaels: "Boys will be Boys?"
• (9 years old) Oppositional defiant disorder; ADHD
• 6 Sandy Smith: "Marching to the Tune of a Different Drummer"
• (8 years old) Nonverbal learning disability
• 7 Brian Williams: "My Name is Williams, too"
• (10 years old) Williams syndrome
• 8 Jordan Neeson: "Let Me Count the Ways"
• (9 years old) Obsessive compulsive disorder
• 9 Shirley Yong: "Worried to Perfection"
• (11 years old) General anxiety disorder; depression, relational aggression; cultural conflict
• 10 Matthew Morgan: "Out of Control and In Control"
• (9 years old) Child onset bipolar disorder
• 11 Neesha Wilson: "Pheonix Rising"
• (10 years old) Resilience; multifinality
• 12 Ericka White: "Not Yet Diagnosed"
• (10 years old) Not yet Diagnosed
• Adolescence
• 13 Colby Tyler: "Attentional Problems or Distracted by Life?"
• (14 years old) ADHD; gifted; divorce
• 14 Arthur Watson: "Won't or Can't; A Case of Mistaken Identity"
• (15 years old) Intellectual disability; parent denial; academic and behavior problems
• 15 Jenny Sloan: "The All American Girl"
• (16 years old) Bipolar disorder; suicide attempt
• 16 David Steele: "Hopelessness and Despair"
• (17 years old) Adolescent depression; suicidal ideation
• 17 Sarah Burke: "Food for Thought"
• (14 years old) Disordered eating and eating disorders
• 18 Jason Coleman: "Disconnected connections"
• (16 years old) Conduct disorder; reactive attachment disorder; traumatic childhood
• 19 Victoria Benson: "Skin Deep: Cutting Through the Pain"
• (16 years old) Self mutilation; borderline personality disorder?
• 20 Juan Hernandez: "The Crash"
• Post traumatic stress disorder; survivor guilt
• 21 Tyrone Wilson: "The Gang's All Here"
• (15 years old) Neesha's brother; multifinality; learning and behavior problems; gang activity, forensic assessments; fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
• Appendix A Supplemental Case Information
• Appendix B Systems of Classification
• Appendix C Guidelines to the Interpretation of Assessment Scores and Assessment Instruments
• Appendix D The DSM-IV-TR (APA, 2000) Diagnostic Guidelines

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Linda A. Wilmshurst, PhD, ABPP , received her BA and MA in psychology from the University of Windsor and her PhD from the University of Toronto. Linda, a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABPP) and a Registered Psychologist in Florida, has previously held licenses in Ontario, Canada, Texas and North Carolina. For 10 years, prior to coming to the Center for Psychology, in Florida, Dr. Wilmshurst was a Professor in the Psychology Department at Elon University, in Elon, NC where she taught courses in child and adult psychopathology. She was also involved in the supervision of student internships and mentoring undergraduate research, primarily in areas related to resiliency, self-perceptions, and well-being in college students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Dr. Wilmshurst has authored a number of textbooks, including Clinical and Educational Child Psychology: An Ecological-Transactional Approach to Understanding Child Problems and Interventions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) , Abnormal Child Psychology: A Developmental Perspective (2nded.; Routledge, 2017) ,and Essentials of Child Psychopathology (2nded.; Wiley, 2014) . In addition, Linda has co-authored three books with Alan W. Brue: Essentials of Intellectual Disability, Assessment and Identification (Wiley, 2016); A Parent's Guide to Special Education (AMACOM, 2005) and The Complete Guide to Special Education (Routledge Taylor Francis, 2018) .

Linda has worked in the public school systems and mental health facilities, internationally. Linda has published articles in scholarly journals concerning programs for children and youth with severe behavior problems and university students struggling with ADHD. She currently works as a psychologist for the Center for Psychology in Fort Myers, Florida.