1st Edition

Clinician's Guide to the Assessment Checklist Series Specialized mental health measures for children in care

By Michael Tarren-Sweeney Copyright 2014
192 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Assessment Checklist series, created by Michael Tarren-Sweeney , provides the world’s first standardised caregiver-report measures of a range of attachment- and trauma-related mental health difficulties experienced amongst children growing up in foster, adoptive, kinship and residential care. This clinical manual provides essential guidance for child and adolescent mental health clinicians... Read more

Part I: Overview and User Information. Part II: Interpreting Assessment Checklist Score: Guidelines and Research Findings. Part III: Development and Psychometric Properties.

Biography

Michael Tarren-Sweeney is a clinical child psychologist, epidemiologist and child developmental theorist. He is Associate Professor of Child and Family Psychology at Canterbury University in New Zealand as well as a consultant clinical psychologist for government and charitable children’s agencies in Australia.