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

Whitcomb, Sara A.; Merrell, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805853707 ISBN 13: 9780805853704

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive foundation for conducting clinical assessments of child and adolescent social-emotional behavior in a practical, scientific, and culturally appropriate manner. It is aimed at graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of school psychology, child clinical psychology, and special education but will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as counseling psychology, child psychiatry, and social work.

Section I, Foundations and Methods of Assessment, covers basic professional and ethical issues, classification and diagnostic problems, and comprehensive introductions to six primary assessment methods: behavioral observation, behavior rating scales, clinical interviewing, sociometric techniques, self-report instruments, and projective-expressive techniques.

Section II, Assessment of Specific Problems, Competencies, and Populations, includes six chapters for assessing specific socio-emotional behavior domains: externalizing problems, internalizing problems, other problems, social skills and peer relations, young children, and diverse cultural groups.

Key features include:

• New Material - Provides expanded coverage of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity within socio-emotional assessment; new material on conducting assessments within the context of ecological theory and public health models; increased information on assessing children with Asperger's disorder or high-function Autism, and discussions of several new assessment tools and systems.
• Evidence-Based Focus - Maintains a focus on empirically validated methods that research has shown to have adequate validity and reliability.
• Problem Solving Focus - Throughout the book, assessment is linked to decision-making within a problem-solving framework.
• Functional Focus - Maintains a focus on making assessments functional within specific contexts and environments.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0805853707
• ISBN 13: 9780805853704
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 560