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Chapter 29 - Assessment of Parental Psychopathology and Adaptive Functioning

from Part IV - Measurement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2012

By
Thomas M. Achenbach
Edited by
Linda Mayes  and
Michael Lewis
Linda Mayes
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Michael Lewis
Affiliation:
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Summary

This chapter focuses on assessment of parents in ways that mesh closely with assessment of children. It addresses the parental psychopathology and biases in parents' reports of their children's behavioral/emotional problems. Parents' characteristics may indeed affect risks for psychopathology in their children. For both clinical and research purposes, data from multiple sources are needed to distinguish between children's characteristics that are similarly reported by most informants versus those that are reported only by informants who see the child in a particular context. The chapter describes the need for multi-informant assessment of children and parents, and outlines practical ways to use parallel assessment of children and parents. Standardized forms are now widely used to obtain and compare informants' reports regarding children's functioning. Finally, the chapter reviews multicultural challenges and research to advance the knowledge of the implications of parental psychopathology.

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developmental nichepsychological theoriesanthropological approachescultural organizationculturally structured environmentchild development
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The Cambridge Handbook of Environment in Human Development , pp. 607 - 625
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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