Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents: Assessment to Intervention

Widely recognised 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.

For School psychologists and counsellors working in grades K–12, special educators, behaviour specialists, school-based social workers, child and adolescent clinical psychologists, and child psychiatrists.

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Table of Contents

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

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