Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents

Nuria de la Osa is associate professor of psychological assessment in the Faculty of Psychology at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. Her research and publications have been focused on diagnostic and assessment instruments for children and adolescents' clinical problems, more specifically structured interviews, and the assessment of conduct problems. She is a clinical psychologist with many years of clinical experience.Miguel A. Carrasco is full professor of clinical psychological assessment in the Faculty of Psychology at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Madrid, Spain. He has been working as a teacher, researcher, therapist, and supervisor of children and adolescents with psychological problems for more than 20 years. His research interests focus on parenting behavior, children's psychological problems, and clinical assessment, especially in children and adolescents.

• Chapter 1Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents: Definitions,Characteristics, and New ChallengesMiguel A. Carrasco and Nuria de la OsaChapter 2Process, Methods, Techniques, and Skills in Children's andAdolescents' Clinical AssessmentNuria de la Osa and Miguel A. CarrascoChapter 3International Multicultural Applications of Evidence-BasedAssessmentThomas M. Achenbach and Lourdes EzpeletaChapter 4New Approaches and Alternatives to the Traditional ClassificationSystemsInes Nieto, Jonas Everaert, and Carmelo VazquezChapter 5Clinical Judgment and Decision Making in the Assessment Processand Case ConceptualizationYork HagmayerChapter 6Tools and Measures for Children's and Adolescents' Clinical ProblemsMiguel A. Carrasco and Nuria de la OsaChapter 7Case Conceptualization With Children and AdolescentsKristel Thomassin, Jessica Seddon, and Chelsea ReaumeChapter 8Assessment of Developmental ProcessesPurificacion SierraChapter 9Assessment of Common and Transdiagnostic ApproachesBlossom A. Fernandes and Cecilia EssauChapter 10Assessment of Children's Main Contexts: Family, School, and SocialRelationshipsJuan-Carlos Perez-Gonzalez, Debora Rodrigo-Ruiz, andSarah K. DavisChapter 11Assessment of Intervention Progress and OutcomesPablo Romero-Sanchiz, Raquel Nogueira-Arjona, Samuel Brice, andJacqui RodgersChapter 12Clinical Assessment of Children With Neurodevelopmental Disorders:The Case of Assessing Developmental Delay/Intellectual Disability inChildrenAnn SwillenChapter 13Clinical Assessment of Special ContextsFarah Malik, Miguel A. Carrasco, and Nuria de la Osa

The well-written chapters by leading scholars in the field skillfully address concepts, strategies, and issues that influence and guide the assessment of child and adolescent behavioral problems .Reviewed by Stephen N. Haynes, Emeritus Faculty, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA