Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents Assessment to Intervention

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 webpage 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.

Stephanie H. McConaughy, PhD, is Research Professor Emerita in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Vermont. She specializes in research and assessment of children’s behavioral, emotional, and learning problems and is a member of the research team that developed the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). She served on the editorial boards of professional journals in psychology and school psychology and was an associate editor of [ital]School Psychology Review[/ital]. Dr. McConaughy is the author of over 60 journal articles and chapters and 8 books and assessment manuals.
 
Sara A. Whitcomb, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the School Psychology Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a past recipient of the University of Oregon College of Education's Horizon Alumni Award. Dr. Whitcomb has written several books and numerous peer-reviewed articles on behavioral, social, and emotional assessment, as well as social and emotional learning. She has given workshops and professional presentations to school psychologists and school staff throughout the United States and abroad.
 

1. Clinical Interviews in the Context of Multimethod Assessment
2. Strategies for Child Clinical Interviews
3. Child Clinical Interviews: Activities, School, and Peer Relations
4. Child Clinical Interviews: Self-Awareness, Feelings, and Adolescent Issues
5. Child Clinical Interviews: Home Situation and Family Relations
6. Parent Interviews
7. Teacher Interviews
8. Interpreting Clinical Interviews for Assessment and Intervention
9. Assessing Risk for Suicide, David N. Miller
10. Assessing Youth Violence and Threats of Violence in Schools: School-Based Risk Assessments
Index