The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology (4th Edition) is a comprehensive, practice-oriented resource that incorporates the latest advances in the field to support clinical psychologists in training. Combining conceptual frameworks with practical guidance, the text addresses the assessment and treatment of common clinical problems in children and adolescents while integrating best practices from clinical psychology and family therapy.

Key Features:

• Provides guidance on clinical problems across developmental stages: infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.
• Covers key issues including child abuse, adjustment to life transitions, foster care, parental divorce, and bereavement.
• Each chapter includes case examples, diagnosis, classification, epidemiology, clinical features, assessment, treatment strategies, and practice exercises.
• Updates reflect advances in assessment and treatment, positive psychology, and the latest ICD and DSM revisions.
• Serves as both a reference for experienced practitioners and an evidence-based practice manual for trainees.
• Emphasizes applied, evidence-based approaches for effective clinical practice with children and adolescents.