Renée M. Tobin, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychological Studies in Education at Temple University. She teaches graduate-level courses in social, emotional, and behavioral assessment; theories of counseling; consultation; and counseling techniques. She also supervises interns and advanced doctoral students providing assessment, consultation, and therapy for children and adolescents in school, clinic, and residential placement settings. Her primary research publications examine personality and social development, with a focus on promoting emotion regulation processes in youth.

Alvin E. House, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Illinois State University. His professional practice and research focus on applying assessment results in school, vocational, medical, and forensic consultations. He is the author of The First Session with Children and Adolescents and coauthor of a manual on observational assessment of children, as well as journal articles and book chapters on intellectual, personality, and neuropsychological testing.

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