Overview
PRACTICAL GUIDANCE ON WRITING USEFUL, ACCESSIBLE, AND LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL REPORTS
From clearly identifying reasons for referral to making recommendations based on assessment results, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports offers practical guidance for creating reports that enhance the understanding of children and their strengths and challenges in order to better meet their educational and functional needs.
The authors offer step-by-step guidelines for developing an assessment plan in a collaborative process with parents, teachers, and other professionals, choosing appropriate assessment and data collection tools, gathering relevant information, and providing clear and feasible individualized recommendations that directly respond to referral concerns in a format easily understood by parents and teachers.
Ideal for graduate students in school psychology, school psychologists, and other professionals in related fields who work with children in a school setting, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports:
- Provides specific suggestions for increasing the usefulness and accessibility of reports including readability, positive phrasing, and vocabulary
- Illustrates how to develop well-formed questions and how to choose assessment tools to answer referral questions
- Reviews the legal mandates of report writing and discusses what must be included
- Demonstrates how to accurately document and integrate data from record review, interviews, observations, and tests
- Discusses how the use of the referral-based consultative assessment and report writing model can promote more active involvement in collaboration, prevention, and intervention
- Features numerous real-world cases, helpful checklists, examples of question-driven referral reports, and a model interview protocol
This book title, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports, ISBN: 9781118205655, by Michael Hass, Jeanne Anne Carriere, published by Wiley (April 7, 2014) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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