Couple and Family Assessment
Contemporary Measures and Cutting-Edge Strategies
- 472 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This fourth edition text features the latest, most common, and important assessment measures and strategies for addressing problematic clinical issues related to working with families, couples, and children.
Chapters provides strategies for systematically utilizing these various assessment measures with a wide range of family dynamics that influence couples and families. These include couples conflict, divorce, separation, mediation, premarital decisions, parenting conflicts, child abuse, family violence, custody evaluation, and child and adolescent conditions, i.e., depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, Asperger's syndrome, and learning disorders that can significantly influence family dynamics. Filled with extensive clinical case material that illustrates the use of these various assessment measures and strategies in an array of clinical situations, this edition is filled with new assessment devices as well as a new chapter on family trauma and family chronic illness.
This book is essential reading for both students in family and couple therapy courses as well as practitioners working with families, couples, and children.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Choosing Effective Couple and Family Assessments
- 2 Assessment and Case Conceptualization with Couples and Families
- 3 Qualitative Assessment of Couple and Families
- 4 Standardized Assessment of Couples and Families
- 5 Observational Assessment of Couples and Families
- 6 Ongoing Assessment of Couples and Families
- 7 Couples Assessment
- 8 Child and Adolescent Assessment
- 9 Parent–Child Assessment
- 10 Child Custody and Divorce Assessment
- 11 Child Abuse Assessment
- 12 Family Trauma and Illness Assessment
- Index