Instructions: Using the assessment form for children found in the back of Chapter 3 on children in the companion textbook, Fundamentals for Practice with High Risk Populations (Summers, 2002), develop further the child for whom you did a phone intake.

Develop details about the child's life and gather information relevant to the reason the parent or guardian called the agency.

In developing your client further, piece together the circumstances ,you believe might be reasonable for a child who has this particular problem.

Assign the child's family a socioeconomic situation, amount of schooling, and the other particulars. Develop as well the child's problem by again consulting the current DSM-5, if relevant, and books and articles on this specific problem. Look at the chapter on children in the companion textbook,

Fundamentals for Practice with High Risk Populations, and think about how you, the parent (or guardian), and the child might be feeling as the child comes in for the first time and what issues or problems the family might be facing for which they are looking for help.

To complete this assignment, you may use the chapter on children's mental health (Chapter 3) or the chapter on intellectual disabilities (Chapter 7) found in the companion textbook, Fundamentals for Practice with High Risk Populations. Or

Develop a believable social history on a child, consulting the same material so that you are familiar with the issues and common problems faced by children and their families.

Use the generic assessment form in the back of this book, again consulting relevant material and the current DSM-5, to create a believable client

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