The Second Edition of the Essentials of Assessment Report Writing delivered its promise in helping clinicians develop skills and competencies in writing while promoting a common vision of creating a comprehensive, inclusive, and compassionate assessment report for each examinee. Embedded with 11 annotated reports, the book provides practical and clear suggestions for effective assessment report writing using a personcentered approach. The authors challenge both beginner and advanced clinicians to use different approaches and strategic techniques in conceptual thinking throughout the interaction with the examinee, writing the report, providing feedback, and implementing recommendations and interventions based on the assessment. The general theme of letting the referral questions drive the assessment process and utilizing the clinician’s natural abilities in empathic communication is clearly integrated into each and every chapter of the book. The book thoroughly assembles a breadth of information in providing general suggestions to improve the understandability of the report as a whole. Moreover, practical suggestions made to particular sections of the report, including background information, behavioral observations, communicating test results, and recommendations based on the assessment, are thoroughly discussed in individual chapters. Overall, the Second Edition of the Essentials of Assessment Report Writing challenges clinicians in different levels of training and expertise at improving writing skills while increasing interpersonal sensitivity to the individual client in generating a precise, informative, and meaningful assessment. Compared with the first edition, the authors indicated that they reworked and restructured the book for a greater focus on utility and professional communication of observations and insights.

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书评：Schneider，WJ，Lichtenberger，EO，Nather和N. Kaufman撰写的评估报告的要点

《评估报告写作要点》第二版在帮助临床医生发展写作技能和能力的同时，也为促进为每个考生创建全面，包容和富有同情心的评估报告的共同愿景提供了希望。该书嵌入了11条带注释的报告，为以人为本的有效撰写评估报告提供了实用而清晰的建议。作者向初学者和高级临床医生提出挑战，要求他们在与考生互动，撰写报告，提供反馈以及根据评估实施建议和干预措施的过程中，采用不同的方法和策略技术进行概念思考。让转介问题驱动评估过程的总体主题是，在书的每一章中都清楚地融入了临床医生在共情交流中的自然能力。本书全面汇总了广泛的信息，以提供一般建议，以提高整个报告的可理解性。此外，在各章中详细讨论了对报告特定部分的实际建议，包括背景信息，行为观察，交流测试结果以及基于评估的建议。总体，《评估报告要点》第二版写作对临床医生提出了挑战，要求他们在提高写作技巧的同时接受不同程度的培训和专业知识，同时提高人与人之间对个人客户的敏感性，从而生成准确，信息丰富且有意义的评估。与第一版相比，作者表示，他们对本书进行了重新设计和重组，以更加侧重于观察和见解的实用性和专业交流。