Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Process

Child and Adolescent Assessment and Intervention

Jac J. W. Andrews, Don Saklofske

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443135538
• Subtopic: Clinical Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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 decisionmaking 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. - Includes rationale for insight and conceptualization of clinical reasoning and decision making - Uses models and illustrations to showcase clinical reasoning and decision making relative to child and youth concerns and needs - Enables understanding of issues and experiences of children and youth in the psychological setting - Presents approaches for explicit, conscious, and accountable critical thinking - Outlines how to evaluate one's own thinking and the thinking of others - Features examples of conscious, purposeful, and informed clinical reasoning, decision making, and critical thinking - Facilitates a comprehensive and ethical analysis of issues in the lives of children and youth

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of contributors
• About the editors
• About the authors
• Preface
• Foreword
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1 : Clinical reasoning in psychology: from assessment to intervention
• Chapter 2 : Clinical reasoning in psychology: a conceptual model
• Chapter 3 : Clinical reasoning and decision-making for specific learning disabilities
• Chapter 4 : Attention, please! Clinical reasoning and decision-making for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
• Chapter 5 : Clinical reasoning and decision making for anxiety: unraveling the threads
• Chapter 6 : Clinical reasoning and decision-making for autism
• Chapter 7 : Intellectual disabilities: clinical reasoning and decision-making
• Chapter 8 : Developmental-relational perspectives to guide clinical reasoning and decision-making for children experiencing behavior problems
• Chapter 9 : Health-related disorders: clinical reasoning for assessment and intervention
• Chapter 10 : Eating disorders: clinical reasoning for assessment and intervention
• Chapter 11 : Psychological health and well-being within school organizations: clinical reasoning for assessment and intervention
• Afterword
• Index
• A