Clinical Assessment for Social Workers: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, 2nd Edition
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ISBN: 0925065374 / Publisher: LYCEUM BOOKS, July 2003
Intended for both graduate and undergraduate students, this practical text shows how to incorporate testing and measurement into clinical practice and conduct empirically-based assessments on clients. The second edition adds chapters on assessing multicultural clients and clinical research methodologies. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Clinical Assessment for Social Workers provides a wide range of standardized assessment tools to give readers greater flexibility in their own practice and research. Incorporating both quantitative and qualitative methods, the authors encourage readers to approach assessment as both an art and a science. They advocate for discovering the balance between scientific, evidence-based approaches and the development of personal practice wisdom. The inclusion of specific measures, scales, surveys, and tests and the example applications of each makes this text indispensable across the practice curriculum. The book introduces readers to the foundations of assessment and illustrates the use of various assessment methods with children, adolescents, families, multicultural clients, and multistressed clients. The new edition explores the difference between diagnosis and assessment, with a critique of the strengths and weaknesses of the DSM-5. The authors have also included a number of measures available in the public domain for the use of students and clinicians.
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