Behavioral

Assessment
Raymond Intal Gessy Manguiat
PSYCH 260 TZ
 ▪ Overview of Behavioral Assessment

OUTLINE ▪ Behavioral Assessment of Children

▪ Some Behavioral Assessment Measures
 Overview of Behavioral Assessment
(McLeod, Jensen-Doss & Ollendick, 2013)

Based upon idiographic principles, which are

GOAL focused on mapping out the interactions among variables distinctively
patterned in each individual
Monitoring target behaviors and/or antecedent, causal, and
TARGET
maintaining variables
TREATMENT
Case conceptualization, Treatment monitoring
PHASES

Behavioral interview, Direct observation, Psychophysiological

COMMON METHODS
assessment, Cognitive behavioral assessment, self- and other-reports

PSYCHOMETRIC Generalizability theory, test-retest reliability, interrater reliability,

ISSUES accuracy, construct validity, criterion validity
BEHAVIORAL
OBSERVATION
ACTIVITY
 + = on-task behavior; is performing the requested
task

- = off-task behavior; specify if:

Making Sounds & Noise = inappropriate verbalizing,

CODES creating sounds with object, mouth or body

Out of Seat = is fully or partially out of assigned seat

Inactive = is not engaged with assigned task and

passively waiting, sitting, staring & lying head down

Manipulating Object = is playing with object

 How was your experience of the behavioral
observation activity? Were there
DISCUSSION difficulties that you encountered while
QUESTION doing it?
 For practitioners, how was this activity
DISCUSSION similar or different to the one/s done by
QUESTION your facility? What do you suggest to
improve this strategy?
▪ Multimethod
▪ Multi-informant Behavioral
▪ Developmentally sensitive Assessment
of Children
▪ Empirically validated
 PRINCIPLES OF CHILD BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT

Children are a special population.

Normative comparisons are required.
Child behavioral assessment involves multiple targets of
change.
Multimethod, multi-informant assessment is desirable.
End product of CBA is a careful description of target
behaviors, derivation of a functional analysis of these
behaviors → specific treatment strategies.
 Some Behavioral
Assessment Measures
Child Behavior
Checklist
(CBCL)
 Beck Youth
Inventories, 2nd
Edition (BYI-2)
 Adolescent
Psychopathology
Scale (APS)
Conners,3rd
Edition
(CONNERS 3)
Behavior Assessment System for Children, 3rd Edition (BASC-3)
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ACTIVITY Billy BILLY
Activity
 Based on your experience or knowledge of
DISCUSSION behavioral assessment, How can behavioral
QUESTION assessment tools/methods help or be
applied in the case of Billy?
Assessment plan
Assessment plan
Assessment plan
Assessment plan
Assessment plan
Assessment plan
 As a student and/or practitioner, what new
DISCUSSION thing/s have you learned about behavioral
QUESTION assessment or assessment in general from
this test presentation?
 References
Beck, J.; Beck, A.; Jolly, J. (2005). Beck Youth Inventories for Children and
Adolescents: Manual (2nd ed.) San Antonio, TX: Harcourt Assessment.
Groth-Marnat, G., & Wright, A. J. (2016). Handbook of personality assessment.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Hersen, M. (Ed.). (2005). Clinician’s handbook of child behavioral assessment.

New York, NY: Elsevier.
McLeod, B. D., Jensen-Doss, A., & Ollendick, T. H. (Eds.). (2013). Diagnostic and
behavioral assessment in children and adolescents: A clinical guide. New
York, NY: Guilford Press.
Whitcomb, S. A. (2018). Behavioral, social, and emotional assessment of children
and adolescents (5th ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.