-In new edition: multicultural approach integrated throughout text allows instructors to incorporate information along the way instead of tacking on a diversity unit or supplementing with extra reading.
-In new edition: incorporates latest DSM and federal standards.
-A comprehensive approach makes this text useful across disciplines, including school psychology, child clinical psychology, special education, counselling psychology, child psychiatry, and social work.
-Well known book in the field that is already widely used in assessment courses
