Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule Adis-iv Child/parent Clinician Manual

Companion Child and Parent Interviews are designed to help you diagnosechildren with emotional disorder, where anxiety is a prominent component.Problem behaviors and diagnoses include school refusal behavior, separationanxiety, social phobia, specific phobia, panic disorder, agoraphobia, OCD, andPTSD. Assessment of ADHD allow for differentiation of inattentive type,hyperactive-impulsive type, and combined type. Interview questions in the ChildInterview are specifically designed to be sensitive and understandable at variedage levels.The Child and Parent Interview Schedules for the ADIS for DSM-IV:C are eachsemistructured interviews organized diagnostically to permit differentialdiagnoses among all of the DSM-IV anxiety disorders. In addition, sections forassessing mood and externalizing disorders are included to allow comprehensiveassessment of a child's full diagnostic picture. These sections areparticularly important for evaluation of comorbidity patterns that oftenaccompany anxiety disorders. The diagnostic sections of the Child and ParentInterview Schedules allow sufficient information with which to formulate athorough treatment plan for the child's presenting problems. The Child andParent Interview Schedules both contain comprehensive sections for assessing thefunctions and patterns of school refusal behavior, a serious behavioralcomplication often accompanying anxiety disorders in youth. Screening sectionshave been included in the Interview Schedules for assessing substance abuse,psychosis, selective mutism, eating disorders, somatoform disorders, andspecific developmental and learning disorders of childhood and adolescence.This item includes five Child Interview Schedules and five Parent InterviewSchedules.Silverman, Wendy K. is the author of 'Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule Adis-iv Child/parent Clinician Manual' with ISBN 9780195183870 and ISBN 0195183878.