Full Description
Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Process: Child and Adolescent Assessment and Intervention presents an in-depth analysis by experienced psychologists on how to engage in clinical reasoning and decision making from assessment to intervention with children and youth. This book emphasizes the importance of using and articulating clinical reasoning within a well-defined framework and its goal in guiding diagnostic and treatment decisions. This book encourages critical thinking including reflection, judgment, inference, problem solving, and decision
making based on the interaction of efficient and effective clinical judgment and truth-seeking accountability.
With a primary goal of providing examples of processes and procedures, this book validates and enriches the importance of clinical reasoning and decision making in psychology.
Contents
Foreword
Vinnie Alfonso and George DuPaul
Chapter 1 Clinical Reasoning in Psychology: From Assessment to Intervention
Jac Andrews, Don Saklofske, Victoria Purcell Evans, and Jenna Young
Chapter 2 Clinical Reasoning in Psychology: A Conceptual Model
Jac Andrews
Chapter 3 Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making for Learning Disorders
Dawn Flanagan
Chapter 4 Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making for ADHD
Allison Gornick, Rachel Northrup, Alison Pritchard
Chapter 5 Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making for Anxiety
Helena Flores
Chapter 6 Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making for Autism
Adam McCrimmon, Brittany Lorentz, Abdullah S. Bernier, Keelin McKiernan
Chapter 7 Intellectual Disabilities: Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making
Steve Shaw and Yeon Hee Kang
Chapter 8 Developmental-Relational Perspectives to Guide Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making for Children Experiencing Behavior Problems
Debra Pepler, Bianca Bondi, and Leena Augimeri
Chapter 9 Health Related Disorders: Clinical Reasoning for Assessment and Intervention
Ara J. Schmitt, Paul C. Jones, and Christy Walcott
Chapter 10 Eating Disorders: Clinical Reasoning for Assessment and Intervention
Sharon H.J.Hou, Josie Geller, and Jennifer Coelho
Chapter 11 Psychological Health and Wellbeing within School Organizations: Clinical Reasoning for Assessment and Intervention
Ester Cole & Maria Kokai
Afterword
Wolfgang Linden
