Assessing Families with Child and Adolescent Presenting Problems

The family is the social relationship context with the most sustained impact on every aspect of child and adolescent development. Understanding family risk and resilience is essential when children and adolescents present problems.

Family systems and family functioning, however, are incredibly complex processes, and the assessment of the multi-member family system within its ecological context presents unique assessment challenges.

This webinar provides an introduction to family assessment and an overview of the issues and considerations that are important in family assessment with child and adolescent presenting problems.

Key words: family assessment, child assessment, child and adolescent problems