Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Process: Child and Adolescent Assessment and Intervention (Original PDF from Publisher)

By Jac J. W. Andrews, Don Saklofske
Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making Process: Child and Adolescent Assessment and Intervention presents an in-depth analysis by experienced psychologists on how to engage in clinical reasoning and decision making from assessment to intervention with children and youth. This book emphasizes the importance of using and articulating clinical reasoning within a well-defined framework and its goal in guiding diagnostic and treatment decisions. This book encourages critical thinking including reflection, judgment, inference, problem solving, and decisionmaking based on the interaction of efficient and effective clinical judgment and truth-seeking accountability.With a primary goal of providing examples of processes and procedures, this book validates and enriches the importance of clinical reasoning and decision making in psychology.

• Includes rationale for insight and conceptualization of clinical reasoning and decision making
• Uses models and illustrations to showcase clinical reasoning and decision making relative to child and youth concerns and needs
• Enables understanding of issues and experiences of children and youth in the psychological setting
• Presents approaches for explicit, conscious, and accountable critical thinking
• Outlines how to evaluate one’s own thinking and the thinking of others
• Features examples of conscious, purposeful, and informed clinical reasoning, decision making, and critical thinking
• Facilitates a comprehensive and ethical analysis of issues in the lives of children and youth

Product Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Academic Press; 1st edition (November 6, 2024)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 502 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0443135525
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0443135521