This highly practical volume provides a complete guide to conducting a n age-appropriate child or adolescent interview and formulating a clin ically useful DSM-IV diagnosis. Illuminating both the art and the scie nce of child diagnosis, the book blends astute advice on the interview process with crucial information on a wide range of mental and behavi oral disorders. Readers learn effective approaches to communicating wi th children and adolescents on a level they can understand; eliciting information from patients whose verbal and cognitive abilities may be limited; and recognizing how disorders may present in children of diff erent ages.