Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Formulation

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 42-57

  Rutter, Michael ^a   Taylor, Eric ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment for court reports and other comparable situations; Diagnostic formulation; Elements in the diagnostic clinical; Initial questions regarding referral; Nature of mental disorder; Observations of the family; Presence absence of clinically significant psychopathology; Standardization of clinical assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889325861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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