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I: The Hypotheses Of Assessment -- 1. A Developmental-social Orientation -- 2. The Ego As The Object Of Assessment -- Ii: Methods Of Data Collection -- 3. The Nature And Evaluation Of Assessment Techniques -- 4. Techniques Based On Samples Of Manifest Behavior -- 5. Techniques Based On Subjective Reports -- 6. Techniques Based On Associative Behavior -- Iii: Procedures In Assessment -- 7. The Assessment Milieu And The Referral -- 8. Conducting The Assessment -- Iv: Analysis Of The Assessment: Specifications Of The Ego Functions -- 9. The Analysis Of Perceptual-motor And Cognitive Development -- 10. Analysis Of Affective Development -- 11. Analysis Of Conative Development -- 12. The Assessment Of Social Development -- 13. Analysis Of Ego Functioning And Identity Formation --14. Reporting The Assessment -- V: Special Problems -- 15. Assessment Of Infants And Pre-school Children -- 16. The Assessment Of Physically Handicapped Children -- 17. Assessment Of Developmental And Learning Disabilities And Traumatic Brain Damage -- 18. Assessment Of Children From Different Cultures -- 19. Children In The Courts -- Vi: Assessment And Recommendations -- 20. Assessment For Psychotherapy--an Eclectic Approach -- 21. Assessment For Physiological And Environmental Interventions -- 22. Ergo Sum--an Epilogue. James O. Palmer. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 620-628.