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Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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I bought this with a few others like it because I was in need to research this disorder. I didn't read it cover to cover, but the information I pulled from it was very useful.

This book really shows how to recognize and work with children with personality disorders It truly amazed me...I could relate to what the book is about because one of my children has a personality disorder.
Overall, it's one of the best books on that subject.
Bravo, bravo.

Shloime Levkowitz

I'm a clinical psychologist who has worked with children and adolescents for number of years now and I must say I should've just quit screwing around and bought this book earlier (rather than keeping it on my wish list!). I looked at the other few similar books on Amazon and they didn't appear to be as well-rounded and unbiased as this one, so I went with this one...I'm so glad I did! The central function of personality in psychopathology, a tenent long held in psychoanalytic approaches (essentially since Freud), is FINALLY coming more to the forefront in the research liturature. This book, which I have to imagine will come out with a 2nd edition in a few years or so, does such a great job at giving you a wonderfully apt rationale and support for the primacy of personality pathology in children during the first part of the book. Then it goes on to cover the DSM-IV-TR PD's one by one with this foundation securely in place. To do the kind of life-changing, [at least partly] reconstructive psychotherapy that most of our clients recognize from TV and movies and come to our offices expecting, and all deserve at some point (To be clear I do think time-limited, symptom focused approaches have value and their place), YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS PERSONALITY. There's simply no way around it. As the authors state, the issue of personality pathology has been almost entirely ignored in contemporary psychological/psychiatric care...at our clients/patients expense in my opinion. This book moves the issue out it's current and misguided tabooed purgatory and into the forefront with sound reasoning and empirical support (to use the buzz word of the day). If you want to work with kiddos beyond the standard behavioral-symptom relief and/or psychopharmacology level I strongly recommend you read this book.