It is our honor to invite you to participate in the conference workshop: Practical Applications of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment, which will be held by Professor Thomas M. Achenbach and Professor Leslie A. Rescorla on Thursday, April 11^th 2013., from 9am to 2pm.

Due to large interest for the workshop, and in order to make the organization of the workshop as good as possible, we urge you to make an advance subscription via e-mail: drzb@ffzg.hr

The fee for the workshop is 500 kn (cca. 65 euro).  Payment for the conference workshop fee should be made to:

Recipient of the payment: Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu
Address of the recipient: Ivana Lucica 3, 10000 Zagreb
Bank: Zagrebacka banka d.d., Savska 60
Purpose of the payment: DRZB Conference workshop fee
IBAN: HR1823600001101311177
SWIFT: ZABAHR2X

We urge all participants to send proof of the workshop fee payment as a PDF via e-mail (cpp@ffzg.hr) or via fax (+385 1 6120-202).

Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Achenbach
Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families
Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, USA

Thomas M. Achenbach, professor of psychology and psychiatry, graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1962, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1966. The areas of his research interests are multicultural methods for assessing behavioral, emotional and social problems and adaptive functioning. He is the President of the Research Center  for Children, Youth and Families at the University of Vermont. He has given over 300 invited presentation in over 30 countries and has authored over 300 publications.

Prof. Dr. Leslie Rescorla
Department of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA, SAD

Leslie Rescorla received her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College in 1967 (in modern European history and literature), an M.Sc. degree from the London School of Economics in 1968 (in economic history), and her Ph.D. in child development and clinical psychology from Yale in 1976. In 1993-94, she became director of the Child Study Institute of Bryn Mawr College, where she still maintains a small clinical practice and works with children and their families and consults with schools. From 1994 to 2004, Rescorla served as chair of the Department of Psychology at Bryn Mawr College. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified school psychologist. 

ASEBA (Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment) covers relevant aspects of child psychopathology, and its validity, reliability and efficacy has been confirmed in over 7000 publications. More than 9000 authors have used ASEBA in their research in 80 countries. These instruments are dimensional and they gruop behavioral and emotional problems into syndroms that form two larger groups: internalized and externalized syndroms. ASEBA is one of the most widely used instruments for psychopathological simptoms evaluation. Therefore, the education of experts and professionals on the application of ASEBA is the first step in planning research projects that will provide a better understanding of mental health in children. During their workshop, prof. Achenbach and prof. Rescorla will present the development od ASEBA, as well as the practical implications of these instruments.