Assessment of family violence : a handbook for researchers and practitioners / Eva L. Feindler, Jill H. Rathus, and Laura Beth Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feindler, Eva L.

Contributor:

Rathus, Jill H.

Silver, Laura (Laura Beth)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Victims of family violence--Psychological testing.

Victims of family violence.

Abusive parents--Psychological testing.

Abusive parents.

Abused children--Psychological testing.

Abused children.

Family assessment.

Physical Description:

xxii, 580 pages ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2003]

Summary:

Assessment of Family Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners provides clinicians and researchers with practical information on dozens of assessment tools. Focusing on parents, children, and families, this volume begins with a discussion of the essential issues in assessing family violence as well as a review of psychometric concepts. The remaining sections review the most widely used and researched individual assessment measures in the field of family violence, grouped according to measurement of children, measurement of parents, and measurement of families. Within these sections, the authors present self-report/paper-and-pencil, interview, and analogue devices. In addition to providing readers with validity, reliability, and norms, the authors place sample items, scoring information, instrument strengths and weaknesses, author contact information, references of studies that have used each instrument, and overall evaluation of the scale at the reader's fingertips. Practitioners, researchers, and program evaluators will find this book valuable.

Contents:

I. Issues in the Assessment of Family Violence 1

Chapter 3. Family Violence Assessment: Test Construction and Psychometrics 39

II. Assessment of Maltreated Children and Adolescents 51

Chapter 4. Interview Methods 63

Chapter 5. Self-Report Inventories for the Assessment of Children 125

Chapter 6. Behavioral Observation and Analogue Methods 229

III. Assessment of Parents and Caregivers 247

Chapter 7. Interview Methods 255

Chapter 8. Self-Report Assessment of Parents and Caregivers 275

Chapter 9. Behavioral Observation and Analogue Methods 335

IV. Assessment of Family Interaction 367

Chapter 10. Interview Methods 375

Chapter 11. Self-Report Inventories 387

Chapter 12. Analogue Methods and Behavioral Coding 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-528) and indexes.

ISBN:

1557989001

OCLC:

49705033