1. Personality Assessment Research: Applying Criteria of Confidence and Helpfulness

David W. Barnett, Gregg Macmann, and Francis E. Lentz, Jr.

2. Procedural Issues Associated with the Behavioral Assessment of Children

Christopher H. Skinner, Jennifer T. Freeland, and Edward S. Shapiro

II. Projective Methods

3. The Projective Hypothesis and Development of Projective Techniques for Children

Louis A. Chandler

4. Projective Storytelling Techniques

James L. Dupree and Frances Prevatt

5. Evaluation of Projective Drawings

Howard M. Knoff

6. The Sentence Completion as a Tool for Assessing Emotional Disturbance

Ruth Adlof Haak

7. Using the Rorschach with Children and Adolescents: The Exner Comprehensive System

Jerry C. Allen and Jillayne Hollifield

8. Use of the Holtzman Inkblot Technique (HIT) with Children

Wayne H. Holtzman and Jon Swartz

III. Interviewing and Observations

9. Using the Clinical Interview to Assess Children's Interpersonal Reasoning and Emotional Understanding

Janet A. Welsh and Karen Lin Bierman

10. Structured Diagnostic Interviewing

Bryan R. Loney and Paul J. Frick

11. Direct Behavioral Observation for Classrooms

Anne Pierce Winsor

IV. Specific Syndromes and Symptoms

12. Assessment of Childhood Depression

Semrud-Clikeman, Laura Bennett, and Laura Guli

13. The Assessment of Attention via Continuous Performance Tests

Cynthia A. Riccio and Cecil R. Reynolds

14. Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Shari Neul, Heather Applegate, and Ron Drabman

V. Objective Methods

15. Multisource and Multidimensional Object Assessment of Adjustment: The Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition; Personality Inventory for Youth; and Student Behavior Survey

David Lachar and Christian P. Gruber

16. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—Adolescent

Ellen W. Rowe

17. The Behavior Assessment System for Children

Jennifer Thorpe, Randy W. Kamphaus, and Cecil R. Reynolds

18. The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment

Thomas M. Achenbach and Stephanie McConaughy

VI. Assessment of Adaptive Skills/Behavior

19. Assessing Social Competence in Children and Adolescents

Timothy A. Cavell, Barbara T. Meehan, and Samuel E. Fiala

20. Adaptive Behavior Scales

Randy W. Kamphaus

VII. Advanced Topics

21. Assessing the Family Context

Cindy I. Carlson

22. Issues in Child Custody Evaluation and Testimony

Patrice H. Butterfield

23. Assessment of Childhood Anxiety

Kelly RobinsonI. General Issues

1. Personality Assessment Research: Applying Criteria of Confidence and Helpfulness

David W. Barnett, Gregg Macmann, and Francis E. Lentz, Jr.

2. Procedural Issues Associated with the Behavioral Assessment of Children

Christopher H. Skinner, Jennifer T. Freeland, and Edward S. Shapiro

II. Projective Methods

3. The Projective Hypothesis and Development of Projective Techniques for Children

Louis A. Chandler

4. Projective Storytelling Techniques

James L. Dupree and Frances Prevatt

5. Evaluation of Projective Drawings

Howard M. Knoff

6. The Sentence Completion as a Tool for Assessing Emotional Disturbance

Ruth Adlof Haak

7. Using the Rorschach with Children and Adolescents: The Exner Comprehensive System

Jerry C. Allen and Jillayne Hollifield

8. Use of the Holtzman Inkblot Technique (HIT) with Children

Wayne H. Holtzman and Jon Swartz

III. Interviewing and Observations

9. Using the Clinical Interview to Assess Children's Interpersonal Reasoning and Emotional Understanding

Janet A. Welsh and Karen Lin Bierman

10. Structured Diagnostic Interviewing

Bryan R. Loney and Paul J. Frick

11. Direct Behavioral Observation for Classrooms

Anne Pierce Winsor

IV. Specific Syndromes and Symptoms

12. Assessment of Childhood Depression

Semrud-Clikeman, Laura Bennett, and Laura Guli

13. The Assessment of Attention via Continuous Performance Tests

Cynthia A. Riccio and Cecil R. Reynolds

14. Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Shari Neul, Heather Applegate, and Ron Drabman

V. Objective Methods

15. Multisource and Multidimensional Object Assessment of Adjustment: The Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition; Personality Inventory for Youth; and Student Behavior Survey

David Lachar and Christian P. Gruber

16. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—Adolescent

Ellen W. Rowe

17. The Behavior Assessment System for Children

Jennifer Thorpe, Randy W. Kamphaus, and Cecil R. Reynolds

18. The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment

Thomas M. Achenbach and Stephanie McConaughy

VI. Assessment of Adaptive Skills/Behavior

19. Assessing Social Competence in Children and Adolescents

Timothy A. Cavell, Barbara T. Meehan, and Samuel E. Fiala

20. Adaptive Behavior Scales

Randy W. Kamphaus

VII. Advanced Topics

21. Assessing the Family Context

Cindy I. Carlson

22. Issues in Child Custody Evaluation and Testimony

Patrice H. Butterfield

23. Assessment of Childhood Anxiety

Kelly Robinson