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Selecting an assessment approach means considering the kinds of variables specifically relevant to the person being assessed. Describe three reasons why and assessment of a child might be different than the assessment of an adult.  In other words, what differences in these situations would require a counselor to change an assessment approach to be more suited to a child versus and adult?

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1. On Child Assessments vs. Adult assessments - 100 words
2. Adult vs. Child assessments - 3 variables - 300 words
3. Sample situations in counseling - 200 words
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Child Assessments
The World Health Organization (WHO, 2008) espouse repeatedly in their bid to protect children so that they can grow up healthy that children are not 'little adults'. Biologically, socially, physically and mentally, children differ from adults. Human beings go through varied stages of development in these aspects. Psychosocially, Erik Erikson's stages of psychosocial development theory present the impact of social experiences on mental/psychological and emotional development throughout the whole lifespan. There are 8 stages corresponding to age level where each stage experience a conflict that serves as a turning point in a person's development where success or failure determine ...

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