Assessment of Couples and Families : Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies

by Sperry; Len

• ISBN13: 9780415894074
• ISBN10: 0415894077
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In an era that demands ever-increasing levels of accountability and documentation, Family Assessment is a vital tool for clinicians. It covers more than one hundred assessment methods'¬ ;both the most widely strategies as well as those that are more specialized and issue specific. Techniques and instruments for assessments are summarized concisely in tables and discussed in depth in the chapters, often by the experts who developed the approaches they describe. Each chapter is also supplemented by recommended strategies for utilizing the assessment tools, as well as by case studies and observational method matrices. Readers will find the second edition of Family Assessment to provide the same comprehensive evaluation and thorough analysis as the first edition but with a fully updated focus that will invigorate the work of researchers, educators, and clinicians.

Author Biography

Len Sperry, MD, PhD, is a professor of mental health counseling at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, and clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He has some 600 publications, including 62 professional books. He is lead author of Couples Therapy, and is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Family Therapy, The Family Journal, and the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.

Table of Contents

Series EditorÆs Foreword	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Contributors	p. xvii
Family Assessment: An Overview	p. 1
Qualitative Assessment	p. 17
Standardized Assessment	p. 53
Observational Assessment	p. 83
Ongoing Assessment of Couples and Families	p. 115
Couples Assessment Strategy and Inventories	p. 137
Child and Adolescent Assessment Strategy and Inventories	p. 163
Parent-Child and Family Assessment Strategy and Inventories	p. 203
Child Custody and Divorce Assessment Strategy and Inventories	p. 231
Child Abuse Assessment Strategy and Inventories	p. 265
Family Assessment: Current and Future Prospects	p. 309
Index	p. 329
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