Kathleen L. Lemanek

TL;DR: There are a number of strong measures for assessing children's pain, which allows professionals options to meet their particular needs and future directions in pain assessment are identified, such as highlighting culture and the impact of pain on functioning.

TL;DR: This review evaluated empirical evidence for 18 measures utilizing three assessment methods: self-report or structured interviews, daily diary methods, and electronic monitors and found ten measures met the "well-established" evidence-based (EBA) criteria.

TL;DR: In the past decade, there has been considerable attention devoted to evaluating the scientific merit of psychological treatments for psychopathology and pediatric psychology, with particular emphasis on measures of malleable state-like variables than measures of stable trait-like characteristics.

TL;DR: There has been considerable attention devoted to evaluating the scientific merit of psychological treatments as mentioned in this paper, and the efforts to identify, describe, and disseminate information about treatments that are supported by sound scientific evidence are important endeavors for advancing scientist-practitioner approaches to therapy and research in psychology.

TL;DR: It is considered it critical that pediatric psychologists view "assessment as a process," and not as a test or measure, and as pediatric psychological research moves into new areas of inquiry, assessment should represent a "growth area."