Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents, Third Edition: Assessment to Intervention (The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series)

Learning children’s viewpoints is an essential feature of good clinical assessment. We hope this book enhances readers’ professional skills for hearing what troubled children have to say and for integrating their perspectives with those of the children’s parents, teachers, and other significant adults. To provide a broad focus, this book discusses clinical interviewing within the framework of multimethod assessment. Readers are encouraged to use other assessment methods along with clinical interviews to obtain a comprehensive picture of children’s functioning. To illustrate interviewing strategies, we have included case examples and interview segments based on research and clinical experience with many children. All of the names used in these cases are pseudonyms, and details of case material have been altered to protect confidentiality. Widely recognized as an authoritative resource, this book has been revised and updated with the latest research and techniques, including new material on telehealth services. Guidelines are provided for conducting thorough, developmentally informed interviews with K–12 students--and their parents and teachers--for multimethod assessment and intervention planning. Extensive case examples illustrate how to elicit information about school functioning, peer relations, emotional and behavioral difficulties, family situations, and adolescent concerns. Two guest authors have contributed chapters on suicide and violence risk assessments. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes over a dozen reproducible interviewing tools; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition *Incorporates the latest information on bullying, cyberbullying, and victimization; sexual- and gender-minority youth; social media and smartphone use; and adolescent substance use. *Discusses strategies, tips, and caveats for conducting virtual interviews. *Expanded coverage of cultural and linguistic biases in assessment and how practitioners can build multicultural competence. *Revised and expanded reproducible tool: Semistructured Student Interview--Second Edition. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas. "Widely recognized as an authoritative resource, this book has been revised and updated with the latest research and techniques, including new material on telehealth services. Guidelines are provided for conducting thorough, developmentally informed interviews with K-12 students--and their parents and teachers--for multimethod assessment and intervention planning. Extensive case examples illustrate how to elicit information about school functioning, peer relations, emotional and behavioral difficulties, family situations, and adolescent concerns. Two guest authors have contributed chapters on suicide and violence risk assessments. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes over a dozen reproducible interviewing tools; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. Key Words/Subject Areas: diagnostic interviewing, school-based, mental health, screening, school psychologists resource guide, intervention planning, multimethod, evaluating, evaluations, tools, questions, risks, behavioral, social, emotional, problems, kids, teens, bullying, victimization, school-age, reports Audience: School psychologists and counselors working in grades K-12, special educators, behavior specialists, school-based social workers, child and adolescent clinical psychologists, and child psychiatrists"-- Provided by publisher