Description
In evaluating children, it makes sense to look at more than academic ability and achievement. Social understanding, problem-solving skills, adaptability, sources of support, emotional adjustment, and developmental issues–all of these things affect children’s functioning at school, at home, and in the community. This revision of the popular Roberts Apperception Test for Children helps you understand the whole child. The Roberts-2 provides useful descriptive information, telling you how well the child reads social cues, recognizes and solves interpersonal problems, copes with difficulties, makes use of social and emotional resources, and much more. The test focuses on the child’s social understanding as expressed in the free narrative, reflecting both developmental and clinical concerns. It asks the child or adolescent to tell a story in response to each of 16 Test Pictures (available in three parallel sets–one showing White children, one featuring Black children, and one depicting Hispanic children). The child’s stories are recorded and then scored–according to objective criteria–for the presence or absence of specific characteristics. The sample is representative in terms of gender, ethnicity, and parental education. The Roberts-2 Manual offers extensive examples of children’s stories, along with scoring instructions. It provides evidence of the test’s validity, based on comparisons between the standardization sample and a clinically referred sample of 467 children and adolescents.
