Wilmshurst, Linda. Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: A Casebook

Adolescence, Fall, 2005

WILMSHURST, Linda. Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: A Casebook. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2004. 308pp. $36.95 (p).

Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. A Casebook provides an abundance of realistic cases in assessing and treating child psychopathologies. In Part 1, students are introduced to "A Case Called Jeremy," a 6-year-old hyperactive and noncompliant child, raised by his mother and maternal grandmother. Using Jeremy as a guide, students are exposed to a three-stage model of case formulation, and gain an awareness of the competencies and knowledge required to successfully accomplish the goals of each stage in the process. Developing case formulations for Jeremy based on different theoretical perspectives, students gain an increased appreciation of how case formulations evolve based on five different theoretical perspectives: psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, family systems, and attachment/parenting. In Part 2, fourteen cases present dynamic illustrations of the complex and comorbid nature of childhood disorders. Each case is accompanied by a discussion of relevant evidence-based treatments and provocative questions designed to link case-based information to theory and research. Supplemental information is provided in the appendix.