The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner’s Handbook

647 Pages·2015·15.831 MB·English

by  Steven R. Smith, Leonard Handler

T h e C l in ic a l A s s e s s m e n t o f
C h il d r e n a n d A d o l e s c e n t s :
A P r a c t it io n e r ’s Ha n d b o o k
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T h e C l in ic a l A s s e s s m e n t o f
C h il d r e n a n d A d o l e s c e n t s :
A P r a c t it io n e r ’s Ha n d b o o k
Steven R. Smith
University of California, Santa Barbara
Leonard Handler
University of Tennessee
First published 2007 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
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To my wife, Suzanne Smith, PhD, for love, patience, and support.
—SRS
This book is dedicated to my grandson, Oliver William Oppenheim.
Ollie, this book’s for you.
—LH
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C
ontents
PREFACE XI
CONTRIBUTORS XIII
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chapter I The Clinical Practice of Child
and Adolescent Assessment
Steven R. Smith
Leonard Handler
part I: Issues and Concepts in Child
and Adolescent Assessment
chapter 2 Personality Assessment in Schools I 9
Jed Yalof
Pamela Abraham
chapter 3 Integrating Neuropsychology and Personality 3 7
Assessment with Children and Adolescents
Steven R. Smith
chapter A The Use o f Therapeutic Assessment with Children 5 3
and Adolescents
Leonard Handler
chapter 5 Personality Assessment Feedback with Parents 73
Ellen B. Braaten
part II: Assessment Techniques
CHAPTER 6 PUKY ASSESSMENT 8 7
Sandra W. Russ
Beth L. Pearson
Tori J. Sacha
chapter 7 The Round-Robin Family Assessment with Social 9 9
Relations Model Analysis
William L. Cook
chapter 8 Behavioral Assessment I I 5
Jeffrey A. Miller
Stacie A. Leffard
vii
viii CONTENTS
CHAPTER > Using the Rorschach with Children I 39
Philip Erdberg
CHAPTER I D Rorschach Case Formulation in Adolescents: I 49
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the
Comprehensive System
Shir a Tibon
Lily Rothschild
CHAPTER I I The Clinical Application of the Social Cognition I 69
and Object Relations Scale (SCORS-R) with
Children and Adolescents
Francis D. Kelly
CHAPTER I Z Interpretation o f S torytelling in the Clinical I 85
Assessment o f Children and Adolescents
Mary Louise Cashel
Ben Killilea
Stephen J. Dollinger
CHAPTER I 3 Drawings in Clinical Assessment of Children 207
and Adolescents
Holly C. Matto
CHAPTER I 4 Use of the Hand Test with Children and 223
Adolescents
A. Jill Clemence
CHAPTER I 5 The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality 237
Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A)
Robert P. Archer
Radhika Krishnamurthy
Rebecca V. Stredny
CHAPTER I 3 Clinical Utility o f Two Child-Oriented Inventories: 269
The M illon Pre-Adolescent Clinical Inventory™
and the M illon Adolescent Clinical Inventory™
Robert Tringone
Theodore Millon
John Kamp
CHAPTER I 7 Personality Inventory fo r Children, 29 I
Second Edition (PIC-2), Personality
Inventory fo r Youth (PIY), and Student
Behavior Survey (SBS)
David Lachar
CONTENTS ix
CHAPTER I 8 Behavior Assessment System for Children— 3 I 3
Second Edition (BASC-2)
Randy W. Kamphaus
Meghan VanDeventer
Amber Brueggemann
Melissa Barry
CHAPTER I 9 Applications of the Achenbach System 3 2 9
of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA)
to Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents
Thomas M. Achenbach
PART III: Specific Syndromes, Issues, and Problem Areas
CHAPTER 2 0 Assessing Perceived Quality of Life in Children 3 4 9
and Youth
E. Scott Huebner
Rich Gilman
Shannon M. Suldo
CHAPTER 2 I Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity 3 6 7
Disorder with Children
Linda A. Reddy
Courtney De Thomas
CHAPTER 2 2 Delinquency and Aggression 3 9 I
James L. Loving
CHAPTER 2 3 Assessment of Thinking Problems in Children 4 I 3
John M. Stokes
David L. Pogge
CHAPTER 24- Comprehensive Assessment of Youth Exposure 4 3 3
to Trauma and its Myriad Consequences
Jennifer L. Price
CHAPTER 2 5 Rorschach Configurations o f Children with ADHD 4 5 I
Steve Tuber
Benjamin H. Harris
Kevin B. Meehan
Joseph S. Reynoso
Jasmine Ueng-McHale