Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychological Testing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

This book explains the psychological assessment process and reviews the origins of psychological testing, referral and testing processes, and prominent psychological assessment instruments. Most important, this book details how to evaluate testing data and use them to understand an individual's needs and to inform interventions and treatments. This book addresses specific domains of psychological assessment, including: * Intelligence and academic achievement. * Speech-language and visual-motor abilities. * Memory, attention/concentration, and executive functioning. * Behavioral and social-emotional functioning. * Developmental status. Practical Guide to Child and Adolescent Psychological Testing is an essential resource for clinicians, primary care providers, and other practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of child, school, and developmental psychology, pediatrics and social work, child and adolescent psychiatry, primary care medicine, and related disciplines.