Couple and Family Assessment: Contemporary and Cutting-Edge Strategies

The field of family, child, and couple assessment has evolved significantly since 2004, and the third edition of Couple and Family Assessment is a comprehensive resource for practitioners working with children, adolescents, couples, and families. It provides an in-depth description of clinically useful assessment tools and methods, including issue-specific tools, self-report inventories, standardized inventories, qualitative measures, and observational methods. The book includes strategies for systematically utilizing these various assessment methods and measures with a wide range of family dynamics, such as couples conflict, divorce, separation, mediation, premarital decisions, parenting conflicts, child abuse, family violence, custody evaluation, and child and adolescent conditions. It also features the latest, most common, and important assessment tools and strategies for addressing problematic clinical issues related to working with families, couples, and children. The book provides extensive clinical case material that illustrates the use of these various assessment tools and strategies in a wide array of clinical situations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 21 May 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The field of family, child, and couple assessment has undergone significant evolution and transformation since the first edition of this book was published in 2004. Couple and Family Assessment, Third Edition, is a comprehensive and extensively revised resource for professionals working with children, adolescents, couples, and families. It offers a detailed exploration of a vast array of clinically valuable assessment tools and methodologies, encompassing issue-specific tools, self-report inventories, standardized inventories, qualitative measures, and observational methods.

Each chapter in this third edition provides practical strategies for effectively employing these diverse assessment methods and measures across a wide range of family dynamics that influence couples and families. These dynamics include couples conflict, divorce, separation, mediation, premarital decisions, parenting conflicts, child abuse, family violence, custody evaluation, and various child and adolescent conditions, such as depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism, Aspergers syndrome, and learning disorders, which can profoundly impact family dynamics.

This third edition features the most up-to-date, commonly used, and essential assessment tools and strategies for addressing challenging clinical issues related to working with families, couples, and children. Chapters 3 through 11 include matrices that concisely summarize pertinent information on all reviewed instruments, enabling readers to compare over 130 assessment devices instantly. Furthermore, the book provides extensive clinical case material that showcases the practical application of these various assessment tools and strategies in diverse clinical scenarios.

Couple and Family Assessment, Third Edition, serves as a valuable reference for both trainees and practitioners, providing a comprehensive guide to assessment measures and strategies. It equips professionals with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively evaluate and intervene with families, couples, and children, promoting positive outcomes and enhancing their well-being.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 213 x 144 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138484610
Edition number: 3 New edition