Assessing coping in children and adolescents: Research and practice |
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| Authors: | Lenora G Knapp Lori J Stark Jayne A Kurkjian Anthony Spirito |
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| Institution: | (1) Child and Family Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, 02903 Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Abstract: | Although standardized and psychometrically-sound instruments for assessing children's coping are essential to both clinical practice and theory development, there have been few systematic efforts to design such measures. This review of assessment instruments compatible with the Lazarus and Folkman (1984) formulation of coping reveals a limited number of instruments but great diversity in the types of techniques employed to assess the coping of children and adolescents. Types of measures critiqued include projective techniques, interviews, questionnaires, and behavioral observation scales. A comprehensive assessment procedure is proposed and suggestions for future research are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | coping assessment children adolescents |
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