This book provides clinicians and researchers with reviews of a compendium of instruments used for assessing children's and adolescents' behavior, social, or attentional problems in the school setting. Although the primary focus is on the evaluation of problems manifested in the school setting, many
Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of School Behavior
✍ Scribed by Mary Lou Kelley, George H. Noell, David Reitman (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 238
- Series
- AABT Clinical Assessment Series
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
Children’s display of unacceptable behavior in the school setting, school violence, academic underachievement, and school failure represent a cluster of problems that touches all aspects of society. Children with learning and behavior problems are much more likely to be un- ployed, exhibit significant emotional and behavior disorders in adulthood, as well as become incarcerated. For example, by adolescence, children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity D- order are more likely to be retained a grade, drop out of school, have contact with the law, or fair worse along a number of dimensions than their unaffected siblings (Barkely, 1998). Identification, assessment, and treatment of children with externalizing behavior problems and learningdisabilities is critical to optimizing development and prevention of relatively - tractable behavioral and emotional problems in adulthood. For example, poor interpersonal problem solving and social skills excesses and deficits are strongly associated with poor o- come in adolescence and adulthood. The school is where children learn essential academic, social, and impulse control skills that allow them to function effectively in later years. School is where problems in these areas can be most easily identified and addressed. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of assessment practices for evaluating children’s externalizing behavior problems exhibited in the school environment. Reviews of approximately 100 assessment devices for measuring children’s externalizing problems are included. Instruments include structured interviews, rating scales, and observational methods.
✦ Table of Contents
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Assessment of Children’s Behavior in the School Setting....Pages 7-22
Behavior Problems in the School Setting....Pages 23-36
Functional Assessment of School-Based Concerns....Pages 37-61
Direct Assessment of Clients’ Instructional Needs....Pages 63-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Summary Grid of Review Measures....Pages 85-98
Measures of Externalizing and Attentional Problems in Children....Pages 99-229
✦ Subjects
Clinical Psychology
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