Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychological Testing (eBook)

Nancy E. Moss, Lauren Moss-Racusin (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
161 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-73515-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Best Practices in Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Care
• Reihe/Serie: Best Practices in Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Care
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 161 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement, learning, psychological testing • Adaptive functioning assessment and behavioral health care • ADD, anxiety disorders, and psychological testing • Attention assessment and psychological testing • Behavior and psychological testing • Cognitive functioning assessment • Concentration assessment and behavioral health • Conduct disorder and psychological testing • Developmental assessment and behavioral health • Executive functioning assessment and psychological testing • Intellectual disabilities assessment • Intelligence assessment and psychological testing • Memory assessment and behavioral health care • Personality and adaptive skills assessment • Psychological testing and referral process • Report interpretation and psychological testing • Social-emotional development and psychological testing • Speech and language assessment in behavioral health care • Visual-motor coordination and behavioral health
• ISBN-10: 3-030-73515-X / 303073515X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-73515-9 / 9783030735159