Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior
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Beschreibung
The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children’s and adolescent’s personality and behavior. The new edition ensures that the content is relevant to diagnostic criteria for major forms of child and adolescent psychopathology in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). It provides updated information on specific tests and discusses advances in research that have occurred since the last edition that are relevant for assessing the most common forms of psychopathology shown by children and adolescents. The volume is unique in providing both the scientific and ethical basis to guide psychological testing, as well as providing practical advice for using specific tests and assessing specific forms of psychopathology.
This new edition:
- Highlights how current trends in psychological classification, such asthe DSM-5 and the Research Domain Criteria, should influence the clinical assessment of children and adolescents.
- Provides updates to professional standards that should guide test users.
- Discusses practical considerations in planning and conducting clinical assessments.
- Evaluates the most recent editions of common tests used in the clinical assessment of child and adolescent personality and behavior.
- Provides an overview of how to screen for early signs of emotional and behavioral risk for mental problems in children and adolescents.
- Discusses practical methods for integrating assessment information collecting as part of a clinical assessment.
- Uses current research to guide clinical assessments of children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, conduct problems, depression, anxiety, and autism spectrum disorder.
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior isa valuable updated resource for graduate students as well as veteran and beginning clinicians across disciplines, including school, clinical child, developmental, and educational psychology; psychiatry; counseling; and social work; as well as related disciplines that provide mental health and educational services to children and adolescents.
The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of children’s and adolescent’s personality and behavior. The new edition ensures that the content is relevant to diagnostic criteria for major forms of child and adolescent psychopathology in the 5th edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). It provides updated information on specific tests and discusses advances in research that have occurred since the last edition that are relevant for assessing the most common forms of psychopathology shown by children and adolescents. The volume is unique in providing both the scientific and ethical basis to guide psychological testing, as well as providing practical advice for using specific tests and assessing specific forms of psychopathology.
This new edition:
- Highlights how current trends in psychological classification, suchas the DSM-5 and the Research Domain Criteria, should influence the clinical assessment of children and adolescents.
- Provides updates to professional standards that should guide test users.
- Discusses practical considerations in planning and conducting clinical assessments.
- Evaluates the most recent editions of common tests used in the clinical assessment of child and adolescent personality and behavior.
- Provides an overview of how to screen for early signs of emotional and behavioral risk for mental problems in children and adolescents.
- Discusses practical methods for integrating assessment information collecting as part of a clinical assessment.
- Uses current research to guide clinical assessments of children with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, conduct problems, depression, anxiety, and autism spectrum disorder.
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior is a valuable updated resource for graduate students as well as veteran and beginning clinicians across disciplines, including school, clinical child, developmental, and educational psychology; psychiatry; counseling; and social work; as well as related disciplines that provide mental health and educational services to children and adolescents.
Provides scientific context in which to administer and assess psychological testing of child and adolescent personality and behavior Offers practical guidelines for implementing individual tests across clinical settings Examines diagnostic criteria for major forms of child and adolescent psychopathology according to DSM-5 categorization Addresses several common types of behavioral and emotional disorders in youth
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Paul J. Frick
Themen in »Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior«
ADHD assessment in children and adolescents Assessing anxiety in children and adolescents Assessing depression in children and adolescents Autism spectrum disorder assessment Behavior assessment of children and adolescents Conduct disorder assessment in children and adolescents Cultural issues and psychological testing Developmental psychopathology in children and adolescents Ethics and clinical assessment of children and teens Family context and child assessment History taking in child and adolescent assessment Legal issues in child and adolescent assessment Mental health risk screening in children and teens Parent and teach rating scales and clinical assessment Peer-referenced assessment of children and adolescents