Psycho-Educational Assessments of Children and Adolescents

About the Book

This book is intended to help school administrators, teachers, counsellors, support staff, parents, and other professionals to read and understand psychoeducational reports and to work as a team to help alleviate the student’s difficulties. Furthermore, this book is aimed as sensitizing the school personnel to the elements of a quality psychoeducational assessment to make them informed consumers who are able to understand good quality report so as to apply the information contained in the report effectively in the schools.

About the Author

Dr Joseph Nii Abekar Mensah was born and raised in Accra, Ghana. He received his basic education at Saint Mary’s Parish School and Accra Bishop’s Boys’ School, Accra, Ghana. Dr.Mensah then attended Odorgonno Secondary School in Accra, Ghana Upon completion of his secondary school education, Dr. Mensah was sent by his late father Nii Larbi Mensah II to London, England, where he studied Applied Biology with specialization in Pharmacology at Barking Regional College of Technology, Dagenham, Essex, England. He later worked as a Research Technologist at London Hospital Medical College, University College Hospital Medical School and Union International, London, England. Dr. Mensah later immigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada, where he was a Research Technologist at the Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University. Dr. Mensah later earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Education and Psychology at Saint Mary’s, Dalhousie and Mount Saint Vincent Universities; and at Columbia Pacific University. He had served as a Part-time lecturer in education at Dalhousie University; as an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Santa Barbara and Columbia Pacific University; and has worked extensively as Psycho- educational Consultant. Dr. Mensah is the author of a number of books, including, STRESS MANGEMENT AND YOUR HEALTH and TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS OF GADANGMES OF GHANA: DESCENDANTS OF AUTHENTIC BIBLICAL HEBREW ISRAELITES.