Rapidly becoming a preferred intervention strategy both in inpatient and outpatient environments, behavior therapy is a relatively quick and effective method of treatment for everything from ADHD to obsessive-compulsive disorder. Edited by two acknowledged leaders in the field and including contributions from a host of distinguished clinicians and researchers, Handbook of Child Behavior Therapy: In the Psychiatric Setting arms you with state-of-the-art behavioral approaches to the assessment and treatment of child psychopathology in the psychiatric setting. Coverage includes:

• A focus on behavioral methods as applied to a wide range of child psychopathologies
• General assessment and treatment issues, including chapters on frequently encountered problems
• Problem-specific chapters, organized according to six major categories: "Description of the Problem, " "Prototypic Assessment, " "Actual Assessment, " "Prototypic Treatment, " "Actual Treatment, " and "Summary"
• Topics on: mental retardation, ADHD, conduct disorders, separation anxiety disorder, phobias, anorexia and bulimia, depressive disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, tic disorders, elimination disorders, substance abuse, posttraumatic stress disorders, obesity, somatization disorders, and pediatric pain