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Therapeutic Assessment with Children in Family Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2013

Filippo Aschieri ,
Francesca Fantini  and
Paolo Bertrando
Filippo Aschieri
Affiliation:
European Center for Therapeutic Assessment, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Francesca Fantini*
Affiliation:
European Center for Therapeutic Assessment, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Paolo Bertrando
Affiliation:
Private Practice, Milano
*
Address for correspondenc: Francesca Fantini, European Center for Therapeutic Assessment, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. email: francesca.fantini@unicatt.it
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Abstract

Therapeutic Assessment with Children (TA-C) is a brief semi-structured intervention in which psychological assessment is used to help families with children and adolescents to change. In this paper we introduce the TA-C model, describe its semi-structured format and exemplify how it can be applied by family therapists.

Keywords

therapeutic assessmentchildrenfamily therapypsychological testing
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , December 2012 , pp. 285 - 298
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Copyright © The Authors 2013

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