Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents Assessment to Intervention

by McConaughy, Stephanie H.

• ISBN13: 9781593852054
• ISBN10: 1593852053
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-25
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Crafted to meet the day-to-day needs of school psychologists and other practitioners working with children, this is the most concise, practical, and up-to-date book of its kind. The author offers guidelines for interviewing children of different ages/m-/as well as their parents and teachers/m-/and for weaving the resulting data into multimethod assessment and intervention planning. Coverage encompasses school issues, peer and family relations, problem behavior, and more, with special chapters on assessing suicidality and violence risks. The book includes many detailed case illustrations and reproducible interview tools, in a convenient large-size format with lay-flat binding.

This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series.

Author Biography

Stephanie H. McConaughy, PhD, is Research Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Vermont. She specializes in research and assessment of children's learning, behavioral, and emotional problems. She is author of numerous journal articles, chapters, books, and published assessment instruments, and is a licensed practicing psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist. She serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals and was an Associate Editor of the [i]School Psychology Review[/i]. Dr. McConaughy's research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Spencer Foundation, and the W. T. Grant Foundation.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Appendices	xiii
Clinical Interviews in the Context of Multimethod Assessment	1	(13)
Historical Perspective on Clinical Interviewing	2	(2)
The Nature of Clinical Interviews	4	(1)
Working Assumptions for Clinical Interviews	5	(2)
Need for Multiple Data Sources	5	(1)
Situational Variability	6	(1)
Limited Cross-Informant Agreement	6	(1)
Variations in Interview Structure and Content	7	(1)
Interview Content and Questioning Strategies	7	(2)
Interview as Components of Multimethod Assessment	9	(2)
Case Examples	11	(1)
Andy Lockwood, Age 7	11	(1)
Bruce Garcia, Age 9	11	(1)
Catherine Holcomb, Age 11	12	(1)
Karl Bryant, Age 12	12	(1)
Kelsey Watson, Age 14	12	(1)
Structure of This Book	12	(2)
Strategies for Child Clinical Interviews	14	(19)
Purposes for Child Clinical Interviews	14	(1)
Setting and Interviewer Appearance	15	(1)
Discussing Purpose and Confidentiality with Children	16	(1)
Developmental Considerations for Child Interviews	17	(9)
Developmental Characteristics of Early Childhood	17	(3)
Questioning Strategies for Early Childhood	20	(1)
Developmental Characteristics of Middle Childhood	21	(1)
Questioning Strategies for Middle Childhood	22	(2)
Developmental Characteristics of Adolescence	24	(1)
Questioning Strategies for Adolescence	25	(1)
Ethnic and Cultural Considerations	26	(2)
Alternating Verbal and Nonverbal Communication	28	(1)
Dealing with Lying	29	(1)
Concluding the Child Clinical Interview	30	(2)
Summary	32	(1)
Clinical Interviews with Children: Talking about Activities, School, and Friends	33	(19)
Activities and Interests	34	(1)
School and Homework	35	(4)
Case Example: Andy Lockwood	37	(2)
Friendships and Peer Relations	39	(12)
Risk Factors for Peer Rejection	42	(1)
Interviewing about Friendships and Peer Relations	43	(1)
Case Example: Bruce Garcia	44	(3)
Case Example: Karl Bryant	47	(4)
Summary	51	(1)
Clinical Interviews with Children: Talking about Family Relations, Self-Awareness, Feelings, and Adolescent Issues	52	(36)
Home Situation and Family Relations	52	(14)
Kinetic Family Drawing	54	(1)
Case Example: Bruce Garcia	55	(5)
Case Example: Karl Bryant	60	(6)
Self-Awareness and Feelings	66	(11)
Three Wishes	67	(1)
Questions about Basic Feelings	68	(1)
Strange Thoughts and Suicidal Ideation	69	(1)
Incomplete Sentences	69	(1)
Case Example: Catherine Holcomb	70	(4)
Child Abuse and Neglect	74	(3)
Adolescent Issues	77	(8)
Alcohol and Drugs	77	(2)
Antisocial Behavior and Trouble with the Law	79	(1)
Dating and Romances	80	(2)
Confidentiality Issues with Adolescents	82	(1)
Case Example: Kelsey Watson	83	(2)
Summary	85	(3)
Interviews with Parents	88	(55)
Discussing Confidentiality and Purpose with Parents	89	(1)
Strategies for Interviewing Parents	90	(3)
Interviewing Culturally or Linguistically Diverse Parents	92	(1)
Topic Areas for Semistructured Parent Interviews	93	(14)
Concerns about the Child	93	(1)
Behavioral or Emotional Problems	94	(3)
Social Functioning	97	(5)
School Functioning	102	(3)
Medical and Developmental History	105	(1)
Family Relations and Home Situation	105	(2)
Structured Diagnostic Interviews with Parents	107	(3)
Utility of Psychiatric Diagnoses	107	(1)
Structured Parent Interviews	108	(2)
Concluding the Parent Interview	110	(1)
Summary	110	(33)
Interviews with Teachers	143	(22)
Discussing Confidentiality with Teachers	144	(2)
Interviewing Strategies with Teachers	146	(1)
Topic Areas for Semistructured Teacher Interviews	147	(8)
Concerns about the Child	147	(1)
School Behavior Problems	148	(4)
Academic Performance	152	(1)
Teaching Strategies	153	(1)
School Interventions for Behavior Problems	153	(1)
Special Help/Services	154	(1)
Concluding the Teacher Interview	155	(1)
Summary	156	(9)
Interpreting Clinical Interviews for Assessment and Intervention Planning	165	(19)
Recording and Reporting Interview Information	165	(2)
SCICA Rating Forms and Scoring Profile	166	(1)
Integrating Clinical Interviews with Other Assessment Data	167	(16)
Case Example: Andy Lockwood	168	(5)
Case Example: Bruce Garcia	173	(2)
Case Example: Catherine Holcomb	175	(3)
Case Example: Karl Bryant	178	(3)
Case Example: Kelsey Watson	181	(2)
Summary	183	(1)
Assessing Risk for Suicide	184	(16)
David N. Miller
Stephanie H. McConaughy
Liability and Legal Issues	185	(1)
Risk Factors, Precipitants, and Warning Signs	185	(3)
Stressful Events	186	(1)
Warning Signs for Suicide	187	(1)
Multimethod Risk Assessment	188	(6)
Interviewing Children and Adolescents	188	(2)
Interviewing Teachers and Parents/Caregivers	190	(1)
Other Assessment Methods	190	(2)
Immediate Interventions for Suicidal Students	192	(2)
Differentiating Suicide Risk from Self-Mutilation/Deliberate Self-Harm	194	(1)
Interventions for Youth Who Self-Mutilate	195	(1)
Summary	195	(5)
Assessing Youth Violence and Threats of Violence in Schools: School-Based Risk Assessments	200	(25)
William Halikias
Social Context of Risk Assessments	201	(1)
Assessing Dangerousness versus Threats of Violence	202	(2)
Prerequisites for the School-Based Risk Assessment	204	(1)
Core Questions of the School-Based Risk Assessment	205	(1)
Characteristics of Children Referred for School-Based Risk Assessments	205	(3)
School-Based Risk Assessment Protocol and Format	208	(6)
Referral for a School-Based Risk Assessment	209	(1)
Documents Related to the Critical Incident and Other Records	209	(1)
Interviews with Parents	210	(1)
Collateral Interviews with Other Informants	211	(1)
Clinical Interview with the Child	212	(1)
Case Formulation, Findings, and Recommendations	213	(1)
Summary	214	(11)
References	225	(12)
Index	237

Excerpts

"Crafted to meet the day-to-day needs of school psychologists and other practitioners working with children, this is the most concise, practical, and up-to-date book of its kind. The expert author offers guidelines for interviewing children of different ages - as well as their parents and teachers - and for weaving the resulting data into multimethod assessment and intervention planning. Coverage encompasses school issues, peer and family relations, problem behavior, and more, with special chapters on assessing suicidality and violence risks. The book includes many detailed case illustrations and reproducible interview tools, in a convenient large-size format with lay-flat binding."--BOOK JACKET.