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by Anthony D. Bram (Author)
This book explains the process by which assessment psychologists can evaluate and report the nature and severity of emotional dysregulation in their young patients.
As referrals for clinical assessment of complex children and adolescents frequently involve questions about emotional regulation in general and the possibility of bipolar spectrum conditions in particular, trainees and practitioners will find this to be an invaluable resource. Challenges with emotional regulation are common among patients of all ages who are referred for formal psychological assessment. Understanding the nature and severity of such challenges is crucial if evaluators are to make accurate formulations and develop meaningful treatment implications. This book will illuminate the process by which an assessment psychologist evaluates and reports the nature of emotional dysregulation. It will also serve as a reference book to tailor test batteries, interpret findings related to differential diagnosis, and link test findings with meaningful treatment implications. Topics explored include detailed case examples addressing real-world referral questions, challenges around differential diagnosis, and explanations of treatment implications. Discussion of various assessment measures are considered as well, including more common measures like BASC-3 and performance-based measures as well as disorder-specific measures which may be less familiar to many clinicians. Providers will learn how to differentiate bipolar disorders from other co-occuring mental health disorders that feature dysregulated emotion, including OCD, PTSD, ADHD, and others.Author Biography
Anthony Bram, PhD, ABAP, FABP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Lexington, MA, where he conducts psychological assessment, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapy, and psychoanalysis with children and adults. Dr. Bram is a part-time Lecturer in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School and is on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI), where he also serves as vice chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program. He received his doctorate from the University of Kansas and is a graduate of the two-year Post-Doctoral Training Program at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, where he was subsequently a staff psychologist. Dr. Bram completed adult psychoanalytic training at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, and child analytic training at BPSI. Dr. Bram is a board-certified diplomate in Assessment Psychology and in Child/Adolescent Psychoanalysis, and he has been a recipient of a fellowship from the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Martin Mayman Award (two times) from the Society for Personality Assessment, Scientific Writing Award from the Menninger Clinic, the Biannual Award for Research in Psychological Assessment from Psychodiagnostics, Inc., and the Johanna Tabin Book Proposal Prize from Division 39 (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association. His first book, coauthored with Mary Jo Peebles, Psychological Testing that Matters: Creating a Road Map for Effective Treatment was published by APA Books in 2014. He also co-edited with Jed Yalof the book Psychoanalytic Assessment Applications for Different Settings published in 2021.
