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Editors-in-chief Michel Hersen and Alan Gross have gathered leading international scholars and practitioners in two volumes to present the latest information and innovations in clinical psychology, including in the areas of ethics, legal issues, professional roles, cross cultural psychology, geropsychology, and more. All mental health professionals, students, and researchers will find these volumes to be an important resource for timely and proven information for effective clinical practice
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Clinical Psychology | |
| Release Date: 01-09-2008 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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Handbook of Clinical Psychology
Chapter One
Historical Perspectives
Thomas R. Kratochwill, Richard J. Morris, and Joseph Robinson
In this chapter, we trace the historical development of the assessment and treatment of children's and adolescents' mental health issues. Although our overview is brief (see several sources for more detailed historical accounts: Doyle, 1974; Dubois, 1970; Linden & Linden, 1968; P. McReynolds, 1975), we provide some perspectives on contemporary evidence-based assessment and treatment. An examination of the historical factors in assessment and treatment is important for several reasons. First, it is important to understand that many of the contemporary issues in evidence-based practice have their origin in past practices. Second, it is important to realize that many contemporary issues are related to social or even political concerns that have their origin in the past. Third, the past has sometimes provided or even imposed a structure on assessment and treatment practices. It is important to understand this structure to understand contemporary models and the scope of psychological practices. Finally, it is important to focus on historical factors to introduce a variety of scholarly perspectives into the discussion of the issues surrounding evidence-based practice. We first review historical features of diagnosis and assessment and then turn our attention to child and adolescent therapy. However, the conceptual, theoretical, and practice issues in these domains overlap.
ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS: ANCIENT INFLUENCES
Most historical treatments of the assessment literature typically begin with a discussion of the work of Galto
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