Couple and Family Assessment. Contemporary Measures and Cutting-Edge Strategies 4th Edition

This fourth edition text features the latest, most common, and important assessment measures and strategies for addressing problematic clinical issues related to working with families, couples, and children.

Chapters provides strategies for systematically utilizing these various assessment measures with a wide range of family dynamics that influence couples and families. These include couples conflict, divorce, separation, mediation, premarital decisions, parenting conflicts, child abuse, family violence, custody evaluation, and child and adolescent conditions, i.e., depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, autism, Asperger’s syndrome, and learning disorders that can significantly influence family dynamics. Filled with extensive clinical case material that illustrates the use of these various assessment measures and strategies in an array of clinical situations, this edition is filled with new assessment devices as well as a new chapter on family trauma and family chronic illness.

This book is essential reading for both students in family and couple therapy courses as well as practitioners working with families, couples, and children.

CONTENTS

1. Choosing Effective Couple and Family Assessments

Len Sperry

2. Assessment and Case Conceptualization with Couples and Families

Len Sperry

3. Qualitative Assessment of Couple and Families

Lori Pantaleao, Ronald J. Chenail, and Maureen Duffy

4. Standardized Assessment of Couples and Families

Len Sperry

5. Observational Assessment of Couples and Families

Robert B. Hampson and  W. Robert Beavers

6. Ongoing Assessment of Couples and Families

Len Sperry

7. Couple Assessment

Dennis A. Bagarozzi and Len Sperry

8. Child and Adolescent Assessment

Ali Cunningham Abbott

9.  Parent–Child Assessment

Len Sperry

10. Child Custody and Divorce Assessment

Sloane E. Veshinski and Christine Sacco-Bene

11. Child Abuse Assessment

Tiffany E. Vastardis, Vassilia Binensztok, and Len Sperry

12. Family Trauma and Illness Assessment

Tiffany E. Vastardis and Len Sperry