The clinical assessment of children and adolescents a practitioner's handbook

• Other Authors: Smith, Steven R. (Editor), Handler, Leonard 1936- (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Mahwah, New Jersey Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2007
• Subjects: Personality Assessment; Adolescent Behavior > psychology; Child Behavior > psychology; Child Behavior Disorders > psychology; Child Development; Adolescent; Child
• Online Access: Click Here to View Status and Holdings.
• Physical Description: xv, 628 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
• ISBN: 9780805857917; 0805857915; 9780805860757; 0805860754

This book highlights assessment techniques, issues, and procedures that appeal to practicing clinicians. Rather than a comprehensive Handbook of various tests and measures, The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents is a practitioner-friendly text that provides guidance for test selection, interpretation, and application. With topics ranging from personality assessment to behavioral assessment to the assessment of depression and thought disorder, the leaders in the field of child and adolescent measurement outline selection and interpretation of measures in a manner that is most relevant to clinicians and graduate students. Each chapter makes use of extensive case material in order to highlight issues of applicability