Conduct Disorder and Underachievement: Risk Factors, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

This outstanding work offers the latest information on the causes, assessment, treatment and prevention of disruptive behavioral problems in underachieving children and adolescents. It describes and evaluates the most frequently used treatment methods and leads readers through one type of effective treatment, detailing the stages, issues, pitfalls and predictable client/therapist reactions. Mandel summarizes numerous assessment tools that have been developed for underachievers and reviews the key components in successful prevention programs.