Family Assessment- Complete Work

Authors

Jane Close Conoley, University of California - Riverside
Linda L. Murphy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Elaine Buterick Werth, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1995

Document Type

Article

Citation

Family Assessment, ed. Jane Close Conoley & Elaine Buterick Werth (Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1995).

Comments

Copyright © 1995 by Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. Digital Edition copyright © 2012 Buros Center for Testing.

Abstract

Assessing families suggests both interesting measurement issues

and significant clinical applications. This volume is a collection of

important papers to explore the topic in some depth.

Some of these papers were first given at the Buros-Nebraska

Symposium on Testing and Measurement. Others have been written

especially for this volume. All are outstanding examples of scholarship

in this very thorny area of psychological measurement beyond the

individual. We commissioned papers that examined the history of

measurement with families and to cover family issues that are of

particular interest to both clinicians and researchers. Overall, the authors have tackled very big issues. They have illuminated issues associated with measuring more than one person,

that is, creating constructs that define systems and interactions. They

have considered these measurements from both clinical and research

perspectives. Finally, they have created a framework that captures

normal developmental milestones for families and families in reaction

to significant stressors. It is an important work that continues the

Buros Institute tradition of being at the cutting edge of measurement

concerns.