ABPP Clinical Child & Adolescent case studies
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Board certification in clinical child and adolescent psychology is a voluntary, peer-reviewed credential offered through the American Board of Professional Psychology and its specialty board. It is distinct from state licensure: licensure establishes the minimum legal scope to practice, while board certification documents that a psychologist's training, experience, and clinical judgment have been examined by senior colleagues in the specialty. Candidates are typically licensed psychologists whose practice, supervision, and continuing education center on children, adolescents, and the systems around them - families, schools, pediatric and psychiatric settings, courts, and community agencies. The examination spans the specialty's full knowledge base: normative development and developmental psychopathology; assessment, diagnosis, and psychological and psychoeducational testing; evidence-based intervention and treatment planning; consultation and interprofessional collaboration; ethics, legal issues, and cultural responsiveness; scientific foundations and outcome evaluation; and supervision, teaching, and leadership. The ABPP Clinical Child & Adolescent case studies are 5 cases and about 2,244 words.
1The Sleepy, Snoring Seven-Year-Old Referred for ADHD
Mateo is 7 years, 2 months, in a monolingual English first-grade classroom. He was born at 29 weeks and has no diagnosed medical conditions.
467 words, about 2 min2The Emergent Bilingual Child Facing an Intellectual Disability Classification
Ana is 10 years, 4 months, a Spanish-dominant emergent bilingual enrolled in a dual-language program since kindergarten. She was referred for reading concerns.
446 words, about 2 min3Family Accommodation, Comorbid Depression, and a Reluctant Adolescent with OCD
Lena is 13 years, 8 months, with OCD (contamination and symmetry concerns), a CY-BOCS total of 28, and comorbid major depression (PHQ-A 17). For two years her mother has accommodated rituals extensively: buying extra supplies, repeated laundering, and answering reassurance more than 30 times daily.
427 words, about 2 min4Divorced Parents, a Subpoena, and an Adolescent's Confidences
R is a psychologist in private practice. Jordan, age 15, has been in weekly therapy for four months for anxiety.
461 words, about 2 min5The Likable Trainee Whose Case Is Not Improving
K, a postdoctoral fellow at a community clinic. K's 11-year-old client with generalized anxiety has shown no reliable change on youth- and parent-report GAD-7 and SCARED scores after 12 sessions.
443 words, about 2 min