Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents - Hardcover

Whitcomb, Sara A.; Merrell, Kenneth W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805839070 ISBN 13: 9780805839074

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents, Second Edition was written to provide a comprehensive foundation for conducting clinical assessment of child and adolescent social-emotional behavior in a practical, scientific, and culturally appropriate manner. It is divided into two major sections.

Part I includes eight chapters that provide a general foundation for assessment practice. These chapters include coverage of basic professional and ethical issues, classification and diagnostic problems, and six primary assessment methods, which are presented in detail. Part II includes six chapters on applications for assessing specific social-emotional behavior domains, including internalizing and externalizing problems, social skills and peer relations, young children, and diverse cultural groups. Together, these two sections provide a framework for a model of assessment that is practical, flexible, sensitive to specific needs, and empirically sound.

Changes in the second edition of this book include:

• increased coverage of the practice of functional behavior assessment;
• updated test reviews;
• reviews of new assessment instruments;
• updated information on legal and ethical issues;
• updated information on assessment and cultural diversity; and
• a handy appendix with contact information for all publishers of instruments discussed in the book, including Web site addresses.

To the greatest extent possible, this book weaves together the most recent research evidence and common application issues. It is specifically relevant to practitioners and researchers in the fields of school psychology and child clinical psychology, but will also be of interest to those in related disciplines, such as counseling, social work, child psychiatry, and special education.

About this title

About the Author

Kenneth W. Merrell (Ph.D.) is professor of school psychology at the University of Oregon, where he also serves as co-director of the program and head of the special education area (which includes the school psychology, communication disorders, early intervention, and special education programs). In addition to his academic experience, he has worked as a school psychologist and has extensive additional experience in providing psychological services and consultation in schools. Dr. Merrell’s research and scholarly work in social-emotional assessment and intervention in schools as been published widely in the field of school psychology and he has been recognized in three separate studies as one of the 20 most influential scholars in the field over the past two decades.

Synopsis

This is a primary text for the basic assessment course in school psychology curricula. Assessment texts are also used in clinical child psychology, paediatric psychology,and are used by researchers in all three fields.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0805839070
• ISBN 13: 9780805839074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 480