Main description:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to Psychological Testing
Chapter 2. Referral Process.
Chapter 3. Process of Psychological Assessment.
Chapter 4. Report Interpretation.
Chapter 5. Assessment Domain: Intelligence.
Chapter 6. Assessment Domain: Speech and Language.
Chapter 7. Assessment Domain: Visual-Motor Coordination.
Chapter 8. Assessment Domain: Memory.
Chapter 9. Assessment Domain: Attention, Concentration, and Executive Functioning.
Chapter 10. Assessment Domain: Academic Achievement.
Chapter 11. Assessment Domain: Behavior.
Chapter 12. Assessment Domain: Adaptive Functioning.
Chapter 13. Assessment Domain: Social-Emotional and Psychological.
Chapter 14. Assessment Domain: Developmental Status.
Chapter 15. Future Directions in Research and Practice.