ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the four different forms of recording: critical incident recording, individual recording, group recording, and behavior rating scales and explores some pitfalls to accurate recording. The behavioral rating scale would require little more than a checklist or behavioral chart. Good observing and recording skills must develop over time; the process of developing insight into what is clinically significant behavior must develop in the same way as the clinical management skills of the counsellor. Simple behavior rating scales may be completed simply by checking off the appropriate category. The chapter explores the questions to be asked about individual children and groups of children. If the long and arduous task of the child-care worker is to have any transfer value to the "outside world," and passed on to other people who will be working with the child when residential treatment is terminated.
