Assessment & Treatment of
Mood Disorders in Children & Adolescents
Melissa Young
Medaille College
PSY 771
Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fifth Edition
In DSM-5 mood disorders include bipolar and related disorders, as well as, depressive disorders. Under the umbrella of depressive disorders, DSM-5 now includes disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, which allows clinicians to diagnose children and/or adolescents with the impairing symptoms that are associated with bipolar disorder.
Multi-Method Assessment
(1) Base Rate
(2) Family History
(3) Differential Diagnosis
(3) Diagnostic Interviews
- Schedule for Affective Disorders & Schizophrenia for School Aged Children (K-SADS-PL)
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA)
- Children's Interview for Psychiatric Symptoms (chIPS)
- Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children - Fourth Edition (DISC-IV)
- MINI-International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents (MINI-KID)
(5) Questionnaires (GBI; CSI-4; MDQ; CMRS; CBQ; CBCL; CBCL-MS; CBCL-DP)
- General Behavior Inventory (GBI)
- Child Symptom Inventory - Fourth Edition (CSI-4)
- Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ)
- Child Mania Rating Scale (CMRS)
- Child Bipolar Questionnaire (CBQ)
- Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
- Child Behavior Checklist - Mania Rating Scale (CBCL-MS)
- Child Behavior Checklist - Dysregulation Profile (CBCL-DP)
(6) Severity
- Children's Depression Rating Scale - Revised (CDRS-R)
- Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS)
- Global Assessment of Functioning (CGAS)
- Clinician Global Impression Severity Scale for Bipolar Disorder (CGI-BP)
(7) Quality of Life (KINDL)
(8) Outcome
- Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
- General Behavior Inventory (GBI)
- Child Mania Rating Scale (CMRS)
- Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS)
- Children's Depression Rating Scale - Revised (CDRS-R)
Psychosocial Treatments
- Family Focused Treatment for Adolescents with Bipolar Spectrum Disorders (FFT-A)
- Multi-Family Psychoeducational Psychotherapy (MP-PEP)
- Child & Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Bipolar Disorder (RAINBOW PROGRAM)
- Child & Family-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CCF-CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)