Psychological Assessment of Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents: The Bipolar Spectrum and Beyond

This book explains the process by which assessment psychologists can evaluate and report the nature and severity of emotional dysregulation in their young patients. Copyright: 2025

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New York state psychologists: This program is not currently in compliance with the unique requirements imposed by the New York State Board of Education for New York licensed psychologists CE.

• Recite the operational definitions related to emotional regulation/dysregulation as internal processes manifested behaviorally by children and adolescents in different ways.
• Explain the premise of thoughtful integration of collateral-report, self-report, and performance-based measure, emphasizing the need to consider the convergences and incongruities across methods.
• Discuss the multitude of caregiver-report questionnaires, self-report measures, and performance-based measures that can be used to assess emotional dysregulation broadly and the bipolar spectrum more specifically.
• Describe emotional dysregulation and the bipolar spectrum differential and co-occurring diagnoses.
• Discuss treatment implications and other considerations for follow-up by which assessment psychologists can evaluate and report the nature and severity of emotional dysregulation in their young patients.
• Review case illustration examples of emotionally dysregulated children and adolescents for psychological evaluation.