Assessing Child and Adolescent Disorders - A Practice Manual

This volume addresses the question of assessment (before, during and after treatment), an all-important ingredient in helping children and adolescents with problems. It incorporates the essence of the author's influential earlier work Assessing Problem Children, while taking full account of the significant changes, both in practice and philosophy, that have occurred in the interim.

Hoghughi provides a comprehensive practice manual for those working in all relevant settings: health, education, the criminal justice system and social services. Uniquely, his approach encompasses the full range of child and adolescent problems - physical and educational, home and family, social skills, anti-social and psychological disorders - to give a coherent, holistic picture of the assessment process.

List of contents

PART ONE
What is Assessment?
Assessment in Context
Approaches to Assessment
The Problem Profile Approach
Special Considerations in Assessing Children
Information for Assessment
Organisation of Assessment
PART TWO
The Master Code
Physical Problems
Intellectual and Educational Problems
Home and Family Problems
Social Skills Problems
Anti-social Behaviour
Psychological Problems
Appendices
Child and Adolescent Problem Profile (CAPP); Full Assessment Report

About the author

Masud Hoghughi is Director of Aycliffe Centre for Children, County Durham and Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Hull. He is the author of Troubled and Troublesome (1978) and The Delinquent (1983) and co-author of Assessing Problem Children (1980) and Treating Problem Children (1988).

Summary

Aimed at those dealing with child and adolescent problems, this text addresses a range of key issues about the nature and role of assessment in different contexts and presents an evaluation of the various assessment approaches available.

Product details

• Authors: M. Hoghughi, Masud Hoghughi, Masud S Hoghughi, Masud S. Hoghughi
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.1992
• EAN: 9780803982970
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8297-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; MEDICAL / Pediatrics, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, PSYCHOLOGY / Assessment, Testing & Measurement, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychological testing & measurement, Paediatric medicine, Psychological testing and measurement, Child Psychiatry;Child Development