Practicing child and adolescent clinicians (N=309) completed a survey regarding their actual and preferred child and adolescent assessment practices. Most reported using the following tools: family interview, individual child/teen interview, and a review of previous treatment records. The majority reported interviewing the identified child/teen patient and the adults in the home with a parental role. Clinicians reported they would also prefer to use parent rating scales, teacher rating scales, child/teen self-report scales, naturalistic observation, and a review of recent report cards and previous educational testing. The top 3 factors reported to influence assessment practice were ethics, organizational pressures, and theoretical orientation. Twenty-one percent of the sample reported that research findings are unimportant in their assessment decision making.
Many practitioners struggle with how best to use Internet technology to market and support their practice. Unfortunately, the empirical literature offers little guidance. This study compared existing mental health clinicians' Web sites to content areas identified as essential and ideal by mental health professionals and prospective consumers. The findings reveal that prospective consumers place a high value on what clinical Web pages may offer, more so than even clinicians themselves. In comparison to clinicians, consumers also have higher expectations for the content of these sites. Only a minority of surveyed clinician Web sites included all of the content endorsed by participants. Results should guide mental health clinicians in the development of their Web pages so that content provided meets consumers' needs and expectations. DAVID PALMITER JR. received his PhD in clinical psychology from George Washington University in 1989. He is an associate professor of psychology and counseling at Marywood University, where he is also the director of the Psychological Services Center and director of PsyD practicums and internships. His areas of research are child assessment and the use of the Internet in academia and clinical practice. DAVID RENJILIAN received his PhD in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1990. He is an associate professor of psychology and counseling at Marywood University. His areas of research are the use of technology in clinical practice and psychotherapist burnout.
In line with previous research and our prediction, self-and subordinate descriptions of the behavior of 92 supervisors are only weakly related. Also, congruence between these two descriptions is positively related to three measures of situational control. These findings are congruent with Fiedler's view that leaders describe themselves as they are in high-control situations.A good deal of recent research has been concerned with ratings of worker performance by self, peers, and superiors (see Harris & Schaubroeck, 1988). In contrast, less research has focused on discrepancies between self-and subordinate ratings of leader behavior. Possible inconsistency in these ratings is important for a number of reasons including the heavy reliance on subordinate and self-descriptions in leadership research (Bass, 1990), and the negative relationship between discrepancies and leader performance (Atwater & Yammarino, 1992).Indeed, the few studies comparing self-and subordinate descriptions that have been published have found substantial inconsistencies between these measures. For example, based on the descriptions of the behavior of 96 executives, Brooks (1955) concluded "...there were wide differences in opinion among.. .the executives themselves and subordinates" (p. 221). In addition, Mitchell (1970) reported correlations of precisely zero between selfand group member descriptions of initiating structure and consideration (Stogdill, 1963) for student group leaders. Schmitt and Saari (1978) found that the average correlation between self-and subordinate descriptions of 53 organizational leaders was only .19 for initiating structure and .23 for consideration across three hypothetical situations. Finally, self-ratings on a transformational leadership scale were found by Atwater and Yammarino
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