assessment tools

ADHD in Schools: Assessment and Intervention  BOOK
This book addresses school related problems associated with ADHD such as academic under achievement, non compliance with classroom rules, and problematic peer relationships. This book is specifically designed to meet the needs of school psychologists, guidance counselors, administrators, and both regular and special education teachers.

Adolescent Assessment   BOOK
Grounded in a solid foundation of theory, scientific research, and ethics, Adolescent Assessment assists mental health professionals to conduct more thorough, informed assessments; reach more accurate diagnoses; and design more effective interventions.

Affordable Assessment Videos on ADHD  VIDEO
Various videos on ADHD assessment for all.

Asking Questions: Guide to Questionnaire Design BOOK 
Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires the most widely used method for collecting information about people s attitudes and behavior.

Assessment, Treatment,  Prevention of Suicidal Behavior  BOOK
Current and comprehensive information concerning the assessment and treatment of suicidal persons and the prevention of suicidal behavior the eighth leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause among U.S. teens, suicide is unique in being self-inflicted and is, as such, often preventable.  


Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder : A Clinical Workbook   BOOK
This 8.5 x 11 comb-bound workbook provides a master set of the assessment and treatment forms, questionnaires, and handouts recommended by Barkley in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder:A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment, Second Edition. Formatted for easy photocopying, many of these materials are available from no other source.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder : A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment  BOOK
Updating and expanding Russell Barkley's acclaimed Handbook, this new second edition incorporates the latest findings on the nature, diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of ADHD

ASSESSING CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING  BOOK
Behavioral medicine has now matured as a field to the point where all recognize that different populations are presented with different issues. Psychological reactions and patterns affect the health and well-being of children, as well as adults, and numerous standardized instruments for the assessment of a variety of areas of children's functioning are currently available. Yet, it can be difficult for practitioners and researchers searching through general compendia of resources for child assessment--which are frequently focused on general techniques rather than specific instruments--to identify the optimal ones to meet their particular needs and to choose among them.

Assessing Dangerousness: Violence by Sexual Offenders, Batterers, and Child Abusers    BOOK
This text addresses one of the most difficult issues in the assessment and treatment of violent individuals—assessing their degree of dangerousness and risk of recidivism. Assessing Dangerousness takes the reader through an educated discussion of the different models for assessing dangerous-ness that have appeared since the 1950’s and 1960’s up until the present and, most significantly, presents up-to-date ap-
proaches to tackling such assessment areas as physical and sexual abuse, sexual assault, and wife assault. Drawing on the research and clinic

CLASSIFICATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL LANGUAGE DISORDERS  BOOK
Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care, social interaction, and problem solving? This theory-based, but practical book emphasizes the importance of accurate definitions of subtypes for assessment and intervention. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners in the field of developmental language disorders.

Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior    BOOK
Featuring contributions from renowned experts such as Gerald Fuller, Eugenio Rothe, John Lockman, Charles Casat, Freddy Paniagua, and Nancy Winters, Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Behavior details how to use the behavioral assessment process to develop effective treatment and rehabilitation plans for various child and adolescent psychological and psychiatric disorders.

The Clinical Child Documentation Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Collection of Forms and Guidelines for Efficient Record-Keeping in Child Mental Health Practices      BOOK
From intake to diagnosis and treatment through discharge and outcomes assessment, The Clinical Child Documentation Sourcebook offers sample forms for every stage of the treatment process. Like its bestselling predecessor, The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook, The Clinical Child Documentation Sourcebook includes ready-to-copy blank forms, as well as examples of fully completed forms, and a 3.5" disk that contains word-processing versions of every form in the book. With The Clinical Child Documentation Sourcebook you'll spend less time on paperwork and more time with clients.

The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook: The Complete Paperwork Resource for Mental Health Practice BOOK
From intake to diagnosis and treatment through discharge and outcome assessment, The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook, Third Edition offers sample forms for every stage of the treatment process. The included CD-ROM also provides these forms in Word format so you can easily customize them to suit your practice. With The Clinical Documentation Sourcebook, Third Edition, you’ll spend less time on paperwork and more time with clients.

Educating to End Inequity  VIDEO
This program addresses teachers’ efforts to level the educational and social playing fields for their students by examining public school reform and its relationship to social change. Educators who taught on the western frontier in the late 19th century and in the South during desegregation are spotlighted, along with contemporary instructors working with Native Americans in New Mexico and inner-city youth in New York. Visionaries including Joseph Abeyta, of the Santa Fe Indian School; Ann Cook, of Urban Academy; and retired North Carolina school principal Kat Crosby consider cultural identity, teaching for diversity, performance-based assessment, and other topics. (54 minutes, color)

Essentials of Assessment Report Writing   BOOK
Assessment reports are central to the diagnostic process and are used to inform parents, clients, and clinicians, among others, about academic problems, personality functioning, neuropsychological strengths and weaknesses, behavioral problems, and the like. Essentials of Assessment Report Writing provides handy, quick-reference information, using the popular Essentials format, for preparing effective assessment reports.

Essentials of CAS Assessment  BOOK
Designed to expand the traditional measurement of intelligence, the Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) measures the cognitive/neuro-psychological functioning of children and adolescents. 

Essentials of Forensic Psychological Assessment  BOOK
There are various psychological areas that must be addressed when performing forensic assessments. In order to do this properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret these tests. Written by a noted forensic psychologist, Essentials of Forensic Psychological Assessment is the first and only book to provide forensic psychologists and other mental health professionals involved in court cases with state-of-the-art interpretive and administrative guidelines for the most widely used assessment tools (including the ASPECT, BPS, PCRI, TSI, MPS, MMPI-2, and the WAIS-III).

Essentials of KABC-II Assessment   BOOK
Now designed for children aged three to eighteen, the KABC-II is among the top tier of children's tests of cognitive ability. Alan and Nadeen Kaufman, authors of the KABC-II, joined forces with Elizabeth Lichtenberger and Elaine Fletcher-Janzen to produce Essentials of KABC-II Assessment.

Essentials of MMPI-2 Assessment    BOOK
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Revised (MMPI-2™) is the most widely used test in the world for personality assessment. To use it properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret this test. Written by clinical psychologist David S. Nichols, Essentials of MMPI-2™ Assessment is that source.

Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment    BOOK
Neuropsychological testing can identify changes in cognition, behavior, and emotion; aid in determining the cause of the change (e.g., neurologic disease, psychiatric disorders, or developmental problems); and assist clinicians in planning treatment and rehabilitation. To use these tests properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret them. Written by two leading experts in neuropsychological assessment, Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment is that source.

Essentials of Research Design and Methodology     BOOK
The text offers students and practitioners in the behavioral sciences and related disciplines important insights into identifying research topics, variables, and methodological approaches. Data collection and assessment strategies, interpretation methods, and important ethical considerations also receive significant coverage in this user-friendly guide.

Essentials of Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SB5) Assessment    BOOK
Essentials of Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales(SB5) Assessment provides comprehensive instructions on optimal use of the Stanford-Binet, including helpful step-by-step administration, scoring, and interpretation guidelines. Using the popular Essentials format, this handy resource also covers test strengths and weaknesses, reliability, and validity, and describes clinical applications of its use. Students in courses on psychological assessment and appraisal will find this to be an indispensable tool to understanding and utilizing this popular measure of intelligence.

Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Techniques Assessment      BOOK
Storytelling techniques are a popular projective approach for assessing many aspects of a person's personality, such as cognitive processes, emotional functioning, and self-regulation. The broad spectrum of techniques includes the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT—the most widely embraced), Roberts Apperception Test for Children, and TEMAS (Tell-Me-A-Story). To use these tests properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret them. Written by Hedwig Teglasi, a leading researcher of the TAT and other storytelling techniques, Essentials of TAT and Other Storytelling Techniques Assessment is that source.

Essentials of WAIS -III Assessment   BOOK
The latest version of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, WAIS-III, which includes several significant modifications and structural changes, three new subsets, and a variety of optional procedures, is a more sophisticated and complex instrument than its predecessors. Professionals who wish to use it properly need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to properly administer, score, and interpret the updated test. Coauthored by Alan S. Kaufman, who worked closely with David Wechsler on the WISC-R, Essentials of WAIS-III Assessment is that source.

Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment   BOOK
A successor to the extremely popular Essentials of WISC-III/WPPSI-R Assessment(0-471-34501-6), Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment provides beginning and seasoned clinicians comprehensive guidelines to administering, scoring, and interpreting the latest revision of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children. Featuring the popular Essentials format of call-out boxes, Test Yourself questions and step-by-step instructions, this handy resource also includes strengths and weaknesses of the instrument, practical clinical applications, and illustrative case reports. This detailed guide to using this immensely popular measure of intelligence is a must-have for anyone involved in the psychological testing of children.

Essentials of WPPSI-III Assessment  BOOK
Complete coverage of the extended and revised popular cognitive assessment test for children ages 2 years, 6 months to 7 years, 3 months,Essentials of WPPSI™-III Assessment offers state-of-the-art instructions for administering, scoring, and interpreting the revised and updated edition of this widely used cognitive assessment instrument for preschool children. Coverage includes insight into every revision of the WPPSI™-III. Clear interpretive guidelines help WPPSI™-III users navigate through the scores from fourteen subtests, seven of which are new. The authors highlight common clinical applications of the WPPSI™-III, such as assessment of language disorders, giftedness, and mental retardation. In addition, the authors provide expert guidance on how to perform cross-battery analysis to link WPPSI™-III results with achievement measures, such as the WIAT-I.

Motivation: Key to Classroom Success  VIDEO
Motivating students is often hard work! Make it easier for yourself by knowing effective strategies that will make your students WANT to learn.

Forms for Behavior Analysis with Children   BOOK
A unique collection of 42 reproducible assessment forms designed to aid counselors and therapists in making proper diagnoses and in developing treatment plans for children and adolescents.

Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling, Volume One, Theory and Research BOOK
This two-volume handbook offers a thorough treatment of the concepts and theoretical developments concerning how to apply cultural knowledge in theory and practice to various racial and cultural groups. Volume One focuses on theory and research, and covers: acculturation, language and culture, social class, ethical research, and emerging areas of inquiry.

Health Assessment and Treating Occupations   VIDEO
"Careers For the 21st Century" is the most comprehensive series for career exploration on the market today. It offers viewers the opportunity to go out on 170 "job shadow" assignments to see and hear what hundreds of workplaces are like.Includes: Audiologists, Pharmacists, Dieticians and Nutritionists, Occupational Therapists, Speech/Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists, Recreational Therapists Respiratory Therapists.   

Integrating Instruction and Assessment VIDEO
This program explores the nature of authentic assessment and its impact on curriculum and instruction; identifies the economic and political pressures for accountability, which have driven school systems to adopt inadequate approaches to assessment; and highlights alternative assessment strategies and tools—those that help teachers make good instructional decisions, as well as those that help students develop self-monitoring and self-assessment strategies of their own. Many standardized tests currently in use are administratively efficient and psychometrically accurate, but for a variety of reasons have served to distort instruction and the definition of the achieving student. This program addresses the need for alternative instruments of assessment—assessment that is multidimensional and longitudinal, involves use of educational resources, addresses possibilities for improvement, reflects good classroom practice, and demonstrates clear standards shared by teachers and students. (42 minutes, color)

Integrating Thinking, Reading, and Writing Across the Curriculum VIDEO
This teleconference for teachers, administrators, and parents addresses the issues of improving comprehension; cognitive coaching; the link between thinking, reading, and writing; and the integration of instruction and assessment. The program features Syracuse University Professor Harold Herber, Professor Dorothy Strickland of Rutgers University, Robert Peterkin of Harvard University’s Urban Superintendents’ Program, Fairfax County (Virginia) teacher Diane Flemming, and Ann McCallum, a member of the IRA Board of Directors; the moderator is Paul Anthony. (80 minutes, color)

Measuring Suicidal Behavior and Risk in Children and Adolescents   BOOK
Measuring Suicidal Behavior and Risk in Children and Adolescents offers practitioners and researchers practical, up-to-date information on a wide range of instruments used to evaluate suicidal behaviors in children and adolescents. In this critical and comprehensive reference book, the author describes conceptual, definitional, and psychometric issues important in evaluating and comparing various assessment instruments and then focuses on available instruments that can be used for screening purposes or as adjuncts in detecting, describing, or estimating the risk of suicidal behavior.

Performance Assessment: Moving Beyond the Standardized Test  VIDEO
In an age of multicultural classrooms and new understandings about multiple intelligences, what role should standardized tests play? And what direction should performance assessment take in tomorrow’s schools? In this timeless program, Dr. Art Costa—Professor Emeritus at California State University, Former President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and a leading proponent of the explicit teaching of thinking—addresses the urgent need to create viable alternatives to standardized tests that can measure creativity, problem-solving, and cooperation. (29 minutes, color)

Tracking Mental Health Outcomes: A Therapist's Guide to Measuring Client Progress, Analyzing Data, and Improving Your Practice   BOOK
A complete, step-by-step guide to tracking and documenting treatment outcomes
Outcomes assessment has become an increasingly critical component of contemporary mental health practice, yet most therapists receive little or no training in accepted outcomes assessment and documentation methods. Tracking Mental Health Outcomes fills this gap, providing step-by-step guidance on choosing the best outcomes-tracking methods and instruments for your practice.