Assessment of Personality and Behavior Problems: Infancy through Adolescence - Hardcover

Martin, Roy P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0898627273 ISBN 13: 9780898627275

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1988

Synopsis

A valuable addition to the limited reference works available on personality assessment of children. The writing is clear and concise and the contents offer an honest appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the various techniques discussed.

About this title

About the Author:

Roy P. Martin , Education Psychology Dept. , Athens ,Georgia.

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I. THEORETICAL ISSUES AFFECTING THE PRACTICE OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT.
1. Introduction.
2. Behavioral versus Personality Assessment.
II. INSTRUMENT AND ASSESSMENT DESIGN.
3. Basic Methods of Objective Test Construction.
4. Designing the Assessment.
III. ASSESSMENT OF THE TEMPERAMENT AND PERSONALITY.
5. Assessment of the Infant: Birth to 3 Years.
6. Assessment of the Preschool Child.
IV. ASSESSMENT OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN.
7. Diagnostic Interviewing.
8. Assessment of Children and Adolescents: Rating Scales.
9. Assessment of Children and Adolescents: Self-Report Measures.
10. Associative (Projective) Techniques.
11. Psychological Reports of Evaluations of Children and Adolescents.
12. Some Predictions.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0898627273
• ISBN 13: 9780898627275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 399