Traditional Assessment and Feedback
In many situations, using traditional assessment procedures with children and adolescents is recommended. Traditional assessment procedures include questionnaires, parent/teacher rating scales, projective tests, intellectual testing, and more. When interviewers use such procedures, children and adolescents are curious about assessment procedures and should be informed of the purpose of particular assessment devices and offered feedback regarding their test scores. Young clients in general and adolescents in particular are likely to feel anxious and distrustful of adults who are evaluating them.
Your explanations and feedback need to be carefully geared to both age and level of understanding present in the child. For example, when administering the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
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