This book explains the psychological assessment process and reviews the
origins of psychological testing, referral and testing processes, and
prominent psychological assessment instruments. Most important, this
book details how to evaluate testing data and use them to understand an
individual's needs and to inform interventions and treatments.
This book addresses specific domains of psychological assessment,
including:
- Intelligence and academic achievement.
- Speech-language and visual-motor abilities.
- Memory, attention/concentration, and executive functioning.
- Behavioral and social-emotional functioning.
- Developmental status.
Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychological Testing is an
essential resource for clinicians, primary care providers, and other
practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students
in the fields of child, school, and developmental psychology, pediatrics
and social work, child and adolescent psychiatry, primary care medicine,
and related disciplines.