Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychological Testing

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This book explains the psychological assessment process and reviews the origins of psychological testing, referral and testing processes, and prominent psychological assessment instruments. Most important, this book details how to evaluate testing data and use them to understand an individual’s needs and to inform interventions and treatments.

This book addresses specific domains of psychological assessment, including:

· Intelligence and academic achievement.

· Speech-language and visual-motor abilities.

· Memory, attention/concentration, and executive functioning.

· Behavioral and social-emotional functioning.

· Developmental status.

Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychological Testing is an essential resource for clinicians, primary care providers, and other practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of child, school, and developmental psychology, pediatrics and social work, child and adolescent psychiatry, primary care medicine, and related disciplines.

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Nancy E. Moss

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Academic achievement, learning, psychological testing Adaptive functioning assessment and behavioral health care ADD, anxiety disorders, and psychological testing Attention assessment and psychological testing Behavior and psychological testing Cognitive functioning assessment Concentration assessment and behavioral health Conduct disorder and psychological testing Developmental assessment and behavioral health Executive functioning assessment and psychological testing Intellectual disabilities assessment Intelligence assessment and psychological testing Memory assessment and behavioral health care Personality and adaptive skills assessment Psychological testing and referral process

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