Nurs 6660 Week 2: Working With Children and Adolescents versus Adults
Week 2: Working With Children and Adolescents versus Adults
Post your answers to the following:
Explain why a developmental assessment of children and adolescents is important.
Describe two assessment instruments and explain why they are used for children and adolescents but not adults.
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Describe two treatment options for children and adolescents that may not be used when treating adults.
Explain the role parents play in assessment and treatment. Nurs 6660 Week 2: Working With Children and Adolescents versus Adults
Required Readings
Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.
· Chapter 2, “Contributions of the Psychosocial Sciences” (pp. 93–130)
· Chapter 6, “Classification in Psychiatry” (pp. 290–299)
· Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry” (pp. 1107–1152)
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
· “Neurodevelopmental Disorders”
· “Intellectual Disabilities”
· “Communication Disorders”
Thapar, A., Pine, D. S., Leckman, J. F., Scott, S., Snowling, M. J., & Taylor, E. A. (2015). Rutter’s child and adolescent psychiatry (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
· Chapter 2, “Diagnosis, Diagnostic Formulations, and Classification” (pp. 17–30) Nurs 6660 Week 2: Working With Children and Adolescents versus Adults