Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior
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Beschreibung
As demand for psychological services continues to increase, assessment of personality and behavior continues to be a central activity. And when dealing with children and adolescents, psychological assessment can present even greater challenges. Therefore, this text – now in its second edition – provides a welcome and timely review of personality and behavior in children and adolescents within a context of the psychological knowledge base necessary for contemporary assessment practice.
The text is organized into three sections, consistent with the authors’ approach to teaching:
- Part I provides students with the psychological knowledge base necessary for modern assessment practice, including historical perspectives, measurement science, child psychopathology, ethical, legal, and cultural issues, and the basics of beginning the assessment process.
- Part II gives students a broad review of the specific assessment methods used by psychologists, accompanied by specific advice regarding the usage and strengths and weaknesses of each method.
- Part III helps students learn to perform some of the most sophisticated of assessment practices: integrating and communicating assessment results and infusing assessment practice with knowledge of child development and psychopathology.
Although the volume is designed primarily as a text for beginning graduate students, Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior is also useful as a "refresher" for clinicians who are looking for updated personality and behavior assessment information.
As demand for psychological services continues to increase, assessment of personality and behavior continues to be a central activity. And when dealing with children and adolescents, psychological assessment can present even greater challenges. Therefore, this text – now in its second edition – provides a welcome and timely review of personality and behavior in children and adolescents within a context of the psychological knowledge base necessary for contemporary assessment practice.
The text is organized into three sections, consistent with the authors’ approach to teaching:
- Part I provides students with the psychological knowledge base necessary for modern assessment practice, including historical perspectives, measurement science, child psychopathology, ethical, legal, and cultural issues, and the basics of beginning the assessment process.
- Part II gives students a broad review of the specific assessment methods used by psychologists, accompanied by specific advice regarding the usage and strengths and weaknesses of each method.
- Part III helps students learn to perform some of the most sophisticated of assessment practices: integrating and communicating assessment results and infusing assessment practice with knowledge of child development and psychopathology.
Although the volume is designed primarily as a text for beginning graduate students, Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior is also useful as a "refresher" for clinicians who are looking for updated personality and behavior assessment information.
Specifically designed as a textbook for use in training psychology graduate students in the elementary principles of assessment and diagnostic practice with children and adolescents
Applies the same interpretive systems across many tests (as opposed to most assessment textbooks that focus on only one measure)
It is meant to be a teaching text, not a resource or reference text—it is designed to provide students with an accessible guide to interpretation
Emphasizes the proper interpretation of intelligence tests in the context of a child’s life circumstances
Includes several devices to enhance the logical processes of assessment, beginning with test selection and concluding with the reporting of results
Stresses the importance of the interpretive process over the value of specific tests
Fosters a deeper understanding of the intelligence construct
Emphasizes learning by example—beginning graduate students crave opportunities to see tests administered and to review sample reports; therefore, this test includes numerous cases to provide students with concrete models to emulate
This text, now in its second edition, provides a welcome and timely review of personality and behavior in children and adolescents within a context of the psychological knowledge base necessary for contemporary assessment practice. Part I provides the psychological knowledge base necessary for modern assessment practice, including historical perspectives, measurement science, child psychopathology, ethical, legal, and cultural issues, and the basics of beginning the assessment process. Part II offers a broad review of the specific assessment methods used by psychologists, accompanied by specific advice regarding the usage and strengths and weaknesses of each method. Part III shows how to perform some of the most sophisticated of assessment practices: integrating and communicating assessment results and infusing assessment practice with knowledge of child development and psychopathology. Designed primarily as a text for beginning graduate students, the book is also useful as a "refresher" for clinicians.
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Randy W. Kamphaus
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