Entering the Child's Mind: The Clinical Interview In Psychological Research and Practice
Cambridge University Press, 1/12/2008
EAN 9780521498036, ISBN10: 0521498031
Paperback, 296 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Entering the Child's Mind teaches a powerful technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. In the tradition of Piaget and Vygotsky, Dr Herbert P. Ginsburg argues that standardized instruments of evaluation often fail to meet the challenges of complex cognition. He presents the 'clinical interview' as a powerful tool that, when understood and used properly, can provide psychologists with a profound appreciation for children's thinking. Dr Ginsburg aims to convince the reader that the method has important applications in research, clinical practice, and education. The clinical interview offers a degree of flexibility that allows psychologists to more closely assess the thinking of a particular child.
1. The need to move beyond standardized methods
2. What is the clinical interview? Where did it come from? Why do it?
3. What happens in the clinical interview
4. Not a cookbook
guidelines for conducting a clinical interview
5. Evaluating clinical interviews
how good are they
6. Towards the future
the clinical interview and the curriculum
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