The fourth edition of this textbook offers a scientific and practical
context within which to understand and conduct clinical assessments of
children's and adolescent's personality and behavior. The new edition
ensures that the content is relevant to diagnostic criteria for major
forms of child and adolescent psychopathology in the 5th edition of the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). It
provides updated information on specific tests and discusses advances in
research that have occurred since the last edition that are relevant for
assessing the most common forms of psychopathology shown by children and
adolescents. The volume is unique in providing both the scientific and
ethical basis to guide psychological testing, as well as providing
practical advice for using specific tests and assessing specific forms
of psychopathology.
This new edition:
- Highlights how current trends in psychological classification, such as
the DSM-5 and the Research Domain Criteria, should influence the
clinical assessment of children and adolescents.
- Provides updates to professional standards that should guide test
users.
- Discusses practical considerations in planning and conducting clinical
assessments.
- Evaluates the most recent editions of common tests used in the
clinical assessment of child and adolescent personality and behavior.
- Provides an overview of how to screen for early signs of emotional and
behavioral risk for mental problems in children and adolescents.
- Discusses practical methods for integrating assessment information
collecting as part of a clinical assessment.
- Uses current research to guide clinical assessments of children with
Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, conduct problems,
depression, anxiety, and autism spectrum disorder.
Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior
is a valuable updated resource for graduate students as well as veteran
and beginning clinicians across disciplines, including school, clinical
child, developmental, and educational psychology; psychiatry;
counseling; and social work; as well as related disciplines that provide
mental health and educational services to children and adolescents.
