About the Editors

ix

Contributors

x

Foreword   By Janet A. Deatrick

xiv

Foreword   By Judith Haber

xv

Preface   By Edilma Yearwood, Geraldine Pearson and Jamesetta Newland

xvi

Peer Reviewers

xviii

SECTION 1

ASSESSMENT

1

1

Child, Adolescent and Family Development   Stephanie Wright, Cecily L. Betz and Edilma L. Yearwood

3

2

Temperament and Self-Regulation   Pamela Galehouse and Marie Foley

22

3

Neurobiology and Neurophysiology of Behavioral/Psychiatric Disorders   Lawrence D. Scahill and Susan Boorin

42

4

Integration of Physical and Psychiatric Assessment   Barbara Schoen Johnson and Jamesetta A. Newland

57

5

Child and Adolescent Sexual Development and Sexual Identity Issues   Tammi Damas, Laura C. Hein, Lois C. Powell and Edith (Emma) Dundon

89

SECTION 2

TREATMENT

111

6

Issues in Prescribing Psychiatric Medication to Children and Adolescents   Geraldine S. Pearson, Beth Muller and Amanda Reilly

113

7

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)   Geraldine S. Pearson and Angela A. Crowley

139

8

Anxiety Disorders   Geraldine S. Pearson and Kathleen Kenney-Riley

153

9

Mood Dysregulation Disorders   Edilma L. Yearwood and Mikki Meadows-Oliver

165

10

Deliberate Self-Harm: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicide in Children and Adolescents   Edilma L. Yearwood and Eve Bosnick

187

11

Perceptual Alterations Disorders   Karen G. Schepp and Eunjung Kim

204

12

Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents   Janiece DeSocio and Joan B. Riley

218

13

Autism Spectrum Disorder   Judith Coucouvanis, Donna Hallas and Jean Nelson Farley

238

14

Learning and Intellectual Disabilities   Linda M. Finke and Patricia Ryan-Krause

262

15

Nonpharmacological Treatment Modalities: Play and Group Therapies   Judith Hirsh and Edilma L. Yearwood

277

16

Individual and Family Therapies   Kathleen Scharer

291

17

Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment   Kathleen R. Delaney and Elizabeth Hawkins-Walsh

313

SECTION 3

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

333

18

Disorders Specific to Infants and Young Children   Sandra J. Weiss and Cathy Quides

335

19

Juvenile Justice Populations   Deborah Shelton and Elizabeth Bonham

355

20

Substance Use   Maureen Reed Killeen, Caroline R. McKinnon and Judith Hirsh

374

21

Child and Adolescent Victims of Trauma   Angela Amar, Natalie McClain and Carol Anne Marchetti

396

22

Children in Out-of-Home Placement   Diane M. Caruso, Charlotte A. Herrick, Robin Bartlett and Carolyn Schmidt

414

23

Chronic and Palliative Care Pediatric Populations   Penelope R. Buschman-Gemma, Jean Nelson Farley and Cynda H. Rushton

426

SECTION 4

SPECIAL ISSUES

443

24

Collaborative Treatment with Primary Care   Jamesetta A. Newland and Kathryn K. Ellis

445

25

Legal and Ethical Issues   Margaret Hardy and Sarah B. Vittone

456

26

Evidence-Based-Nursing Practice   Donna Hallas and Elizabeth Bonham

475

27

Influence of Culture/Needs of Immigrant Children   Edilma L. Yearwood and Ellen Carroll

483

28

Conducting Research with At-Risk and High-Risk Children and Adolescents   M. Katherine Hutchinson and Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell

496

29

Advanced Practice Nurses Interfacing with the School System   Ellen Carroll, Allison W. Kilcoyne and Pamela Galehouse

507

30

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policy   Sally Raphel and Kathy Ann Sheehy

522

Index

533