Family Assessment - 9780415894074

In 11 chapters, Sperry (mental health counseling, Florida Atlantic U., and psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin) collects about 130 assessment methods for use with couples and families by mental health clinicians and trainees. Therapists, psychologists, and researchers from the US detail numerous assessments including qualitative, standardized, observational, ongoing, couples, child and adolescent, parent-child and family, child custody and divorce, and child abuse assessments. This edition discusses more tools and methods such as issue-specific tools and self-report inventories. Each chapter explains an assessment strategy and the use of specific methods and inventories, how to use them, and information on reliability and validity, scoring, target audience, availability and source, and multicultural and translation issues, with clinical examples. Revised and updated, this edition has a new chapter on child and adolescent conditions that influence family dynamics. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)