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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.

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.

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

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"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.

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Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents Assessment to Intervention

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