Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents: Assessment to Intervention First Edition, by Stephanie H. McConaughy. Guilford Publications, Inc. (2005). ISBN-13: 9781593852054 ISBN: 1593852053
Course Description:
This course will offer concise, practical, and up-to-date guidelines in learning systematic interviewing strategies with children, teachers/administrators, and parents. Students will learn efficient strategies and how to incorporate these interviews into multi-method assessment and intervention planning. Students will also be exposed to case examples and reproducible interview tools to use in their practices.
Course Objectives:
At the completion of the class, student will be able to:
Complete exams for proficiency, with a minimum of a passing grade.
Identify systematic interviewing strategies to be used with children, teachers, and parents.
Determine and practice how to efficiently conduct an interview.
Interpret clinical interviews for assessment and intervention planning.
Understand case examples and interviewing tools.
Learn about the important issues that should be involved in interviewing a child/family such as, talking about family relations, self-awareness, feelings, and other adolescent issues.
Learn about risky issues such as suicide ideation, youth violence, and threats of violence in schools and how to assess such issues in an interview.
Week 1: Complete reading assignment: Chapter 1, pp 1-13.
Review Clinical interviews in the context of multi-method assessment
Week 3: Complete reading assignment: Chapter 3-4, pp 33-87.
Review Clinical interviews with children : talking about activities, school, friends, family relations, self-awareness, feelings, and other adolescent issues.
Week 4: Complete reading assignment: Chapter 5, pp 88-142.
Review Interviews with parents.
Complete Exam I
Week 8: Complete reading assignment: Chapter 9, pp 200-224.
Review Assessing youth violence and threats of violence in schools: school-based risk assessment.
Complete Exam II; Interview due (please email to professor; may email before this date)
Exams and Interview
There will be two exams with true and false questions. All questions will come from the reading assignments. Exam I is completed after completion of the fourth week and reading material for that week, and Exam II after week 8 and the final reading material. There will also be an interview completed with a child, teacher, or a parent using an interviewing tool from the text book. This paper is to be typed out using the outline of the interviewing tool the student selects from the book. The paper length will differ depending on which interviewing tool you select from the book and the paper is to be submitted to the professor by the 8th week of the course. Please do not use personal contact information in the interview/final paper (e.g., use first initial of name when referring to the interviewee; no telephone numbers or addresses).
Possible Interviewing tools to use:
p. 86 – Appendix 4.1 AND p. 87 – Appendix 4.2
p. 112-122 – Appendix 5.1
p. 123-129 – Appendix 5.2
p.130-142 – Appendix 5.3
p. 157-164 – Appendix 6.1
p. 196-198 – Appendix 8.1 AND p. 199 – Appendix 8.2
Grading:
Exam I - 42%
Exam II - 42%
Interview - 16%
Grading Scale
90 - 100% A
80 - 89% B
70 - 79% C
60 - 69% D
59% and below Failure
Other Information
Due to security you will need to notify your instructor during "office hours" prior to taking exams so you have access when you are ready to take the test. You are only allowed to take an exam once. There is a "sample exam" you may take to practice marking your answers.
All exams are automatically timed, however I do not time them. So go slowly and read carefully. There are no "trick" questions.
After completing the exam and clicking on the submit or send button; both you and the instructor will receive a corrected graded copy of the exam via email.
THERE IS NO EXTRA CREDIT WORK AVAILABLE FOR THIS COURSE. YOUR GRADE IS DETERMINED BY YOUR SCORES ON THE EXAMS AND THE INTERVIEW.
