Assessment of Children — Fifth Edition
Behavioral, Social, and Clinical Foundations
Like it’s predecessors, this edition is designed for students and professionals interested in personality assessment, behavioral assessment, and child clinical assessment. Major revisions make this book more comprehensive, relevant, readable, up to date, and informative! New chapters on assessment theory, psychometrics, culturally and linguistically diverse children, and report writing are added. Included are reviews of specific measures for assessing antisocial behavior disorders, anxiety disorders, depressive orders risk of suicide, and substance abuse disorders.
Features:
• Humorous cartoons touching on assessment, psychologies, and education, provide comic relief, while serving as teaching and learning tools.
• A list of major headings and goals and objectives are provided at the beginning of each chapter
• Thinking Through the Issues sections, a summary of each major topic area, a list of key terms, concepts, and names and the page on which each appears, and a series of study questions serve as useful learning aids
• Exercises in several chapters help students master the material
• Checklists allow students to evaluate the examiner’s interview techniques
800 pages, 2006, hardcover, ISBN 0-9702671-3-4