Full Description
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.
Contents
Preface
Part I Introduction to Clinical Assessment
1. Assessment Process and Methods Cynthia Franklin and Catheleen Jordan
Part II Clinical Assessment Methods
2. Quantitative Clinical Assessment Methods Cynthia Franklin and Anao Zhang
3. Standardized Assessment Measures and Computer-Assisted Assessment Danielle E. Parrish, David W. Springer, and Cynthia Franklin
4. Qualitative Assessment Methods Michelle S. Ballan, and Molly Freyer
Part III Clinical Assessment with Populations
5. Children and Adolescents Catheleen Jordan, and Alexa Smith-Osborne
6. Adults Elizabeth C. Pomeroy, Kathleen Hill Anderson
7. Family Systems Cynthia Franklin, Laura Hopson, Yuqi Guo, and Anao Zhang
8. Families Who Are Multistressed Catheleen Jordan, Vikki Vandiver, Hannah Szlyk, Julieann Nagoshi, and Craig Nagoshi
9. Multicultural Assessment Dorie J. Gilbert
Part IV Assessing Outcomes
10. Linking Assessment to Outcome Evaluation Using Single-System and Group Research Designs Bruce A. Thyer and Laura L. Myers
Appendices
Appendix 2A Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ - 9)
Appendix 4A Ethnographic Assessment Case Study
Appendix 4B Use of qualitative methods to determine the ecological validity of neuropsychological testing.
Appendix 6A The Scale of MMPI-2-RF Scales
Appendix 6B MAST (Revised): Michigan Alcohol Screening Test
Appendix 7A Examples of Circular Questions
Appendix 7B MASIC
