Synopses & Reviews
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the Conners 3, Conners CBRS, and Conners ECThe Conners 3rd Edition (Conners 3), Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scales (Conners CBRS), and Conners Early Childhood (Conners EC) are sophisticated tools for the assessment of behavioral, emotional, social, academic, and developmental issues in children and adolescents. Authored by Elizabeth Sparrow, who was mentored by Keith Conners and worked closely with him on the Conners assessments, Essentials of Conners Behavior Assessments offers a comprehensive and user-friendly guide for mental health professionals who need to understand and apply results from these Conners assessments in educational, clinical, and research settings.
Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health practitioners, and those in training, quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.
The best practical guide to the Conners 3, Conners CBRS, and Conners EC, Essentials of Conners Behavior Assessments provides instruction for rating scale selection, administration, scoring, and interpretation, and advanced approaches to analyzing results, integrating findings from multiple Conners assessments, and evaluating response to intervention.
Synopsis
Essentials of Conners Rating Scales Assessmentis the first and only book to provide mental health professionals and students with state-of-the-art interpretive and administrative guides to using the latest versions of the Conners Rating Scales, which include the Conners Rating Scales, 3E, the Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scale (CBRS), and the Conners Early Childhood Rating Scale (EC). These scales provide professionals with an obective way to obtain parent, teacher, and self-report data about a variety of children and adolescents' behavioral, emotional, social, and academic issues, including ADHD.
Packaged in the user-friendly Essentialsseries style and format, this book allows "one-stop shopping" for anyone who wants to learn how to interpret, administer, and score these popular scales.
Synopsis
Part of the bestselling Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, Essentials of Conners Rating ScalesTMA Assessment is the first and only state-of-the-art interpretive and administrative guide to using the latest versions of the Conners Rating ScalesTM. These scales provide professionals with an objective way to obtain parent, teacher, and self-report data about a variety of children's and adolescents' behavioral, emotional, social, and academic issues. Conveniently formatted for rapid reference, this book helps busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of the Conners Rating ScalesTM.
About the Author
Elizabeth P. Sparrow, PhD, is a pediatric neuropsychologist residing in Raleigh, North Carolina. In addition to serving as the primary clinical consultant for the Conners 3, Conners CBRS, and Conners EC, she coauthored the Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS). Her publications, presentations, training seminars, and individual neuropsychological reports reflect her dedication to improving assessment and intervention planning.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: OverviewSection 1.1: General overview (rating scales in general, important tips in selecting a rating scale, basic ethical/legal considerations, using rating scales within the context of a multimodal evaluation, test publisher information)
Section 1.2: Overview of the Conners 3, Conners CBRS, and Conners EC (context for development; general principles of development including item generation, expert review, pilot data, types of statistical analyses used, normative samples; multi-informant; age ranges)
Section 1.3: Conners 3 (main purpose, changes from Conners Rating Scales-Revised, psychometrics)
Section 1.4: Conners CBRS (main purpose, psychometrics)
Section 1.5: Conners EC (main purpose, psychometrics)
- Special topic for discussion: the use of age- and gender-based norms
Chapter 2: How to administer the rating scales(same general guidelines; special tips for each individual application)
Chapter 3: How to score the rating scales
Section 3.1: General scoring principles
Section 3.2: Scoring the Conners 3
Section 3.3: Scoring the Conners CBRS
Section 3.4: Scoring the Conners EC
Chapter 4: How to interpret the rating scales
Section 4.1: Interpretation strategy (general; include intervention planning tips)
Section 4.2: Special tips for interpreting the Conners 3
Section 4.3: Special tips for interpreting the Conners CBRS
Section 4.4: Special tips for interpreting the Conners EC
Chapter 5: Strengths and weaknesses of the rating scales
Section 5.1: General strengths and weaknesses across all 3 scales
Section 5.2: Specific strengths and weaknesses of the Conners 3
Section 5.3: Specific strengths and weaknesses of the Conners CBRS
Section 5.4: Specific strengths and weaknesses of the Conners EC
Chapter 6: Clinical Applications of the rating scales
Section 6.1: Educational setting (discuss in context of IDEA 2004)
Section 6.2: ADHD and the Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Section 6.3: Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Section 6.4: Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Section 6.5: Learning Disorders
Chapter 7: Illustrative Case Reports