The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA): Development, Findings, Theory, and Applications

This book illuminates and integrates four decades of work related to the ASEBA. Starting with the ASEBA’s origins in the 1960s, it traces major milestones in the ASEBA’s conceptual, methodological, and theoretical development. It also elucidates applications of the ASEBA to practical assessment, training, and research. Key topics include:

Empirically based approach
Quantitative aspects of assessment & taxonomy
Developmental psychopathology
Linking assessment & taxonomy
From classification to quantification
Evidence-based assessment (EBA) for evidence-based treatment (EBT)
From data to theory & back to data
Modeling phenotypic & genotypic interplays
From cross-cultural to multicultural research
Accelerated longitudinal research

Building on the accomplishments to date, the book outlines directions for continued advances in areas such as the following:

Multicultural research & applications
Use of multi-informant data
Profile patterns
Genetics of psychopathology
Risk & protective factors
Improving EBA foundations for EBT
Service systems
Conceptual models
Training practitioners & researchers