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A Practitioner's Guide to Personalized Clinical Assessment
Describes the range of clinical assessment tools. This title presents an overview of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), as well as comprehensive information on widely used instruments for such specific populations as adolescents, pre-adolescents, medical patients, and college students.
Reviewing the breadth of knowledge on schizophrenia, this handbook provides practical guidelines for effective assessment and treatment in diverse contexts. It summarizes the state of the science; highlights key points the busy practitioner needs to know; and lists recommended resources, including seminal research studies and clinical tools.
Presents a range of instructional programs and practices for students with behavioral disorders. This title describes strategies for promoting mastery and fluency in early reading, writing, and math, while tailoring instruction to each student's needs. It facilitates data-based assessment, decision making, and progress monitoring.
Examines qualitative and quantitative theories and methods across the social and behavioral sciences. This volume presents various approaches to data collection, analysis, and representation. It describes alternative uses of traditional quantitative and qualitative tools, and innovative hybrid or mixed methods.
Each child on the autism spectrum has a unique set of special needs. That's why their parents deserve a smart, caring advocate to help zero in on proven interventions that are right for their child. This title guides parents through the complex maze of treatment options. It shows how to obtain an assessment of a child's strengths and weaknesses.
Presents a framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases. This book includes strategies and examples to help readers address cultural concerns at each stage of the assessment and intervention process. It helps gain skills for maximizing the accuracy of assessments for physical and sexual abuse.
Presents a unified set of clinical guidelines for conceptualizing, assessing, and treating challenging presentations of depression. This book also offers knowledge and tools for delivering competent care to specific populations of depressed patients: ethnic minorities; lesbian, gay, and bisexual people; adolescents; and older adults.
Provides information and strategies for assessing and treating internalizing problems in school settings. This title details more than 40 specific psychoeducational and psychosocial intervention techniques with a focus on approaches that are evidence based, broadly applicable, and easy to implement.
Grounded in the findings on typically and atypically developing infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, this work shows the connections between ASD and impairments in joint attention, communication and language, play, and imitation. It also explores the developmental and neurobiological processes that underlie social-communication deficits in ASD.
