Handbook of Psychological Assessment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goldstein, Gerald; Deluca, John; Allen, Daniel N.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment, provides scholarly overviews of the major areas of psychological assessment, including test development, psychometrics, technology of testing, and commonly used assessment measures. Psychological assessment is included for all ages, with new coverage encompassing ethnic minorities and the elderly. Assessment methodology discussed includes formal testing, interviewing, and observation of behavior. The handbook also discusses assessment of personality and behavior, including intelligence, aptitude, interest, achievement, personality and psychopathology. New coverage includes use of assessments in forensic applications.

• Encompasses test development, psychometrics, and assessment measures
• Covers assessment for all age groups
• Includes formal testing, interviews, and behavioral observation as testing measures
• Details assessments for intelligence, aptitude, achievement, personality, and psychopathology
• New coverage of assessments used in forensic psychology
• New coverage on assessments with ethnic minorities

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 644
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128025147
• Artikelnr.: 55440975

Autorenporträt

Dr. Gerald Goldstein was a Senior Research Career Scientist in the Department of Veterans' Affairs and a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Formerly, Dr. Goldstein was a research psychologist at the Topeka Veterans' Administration Hospital, and a faculty member of the University of Kansas and the Menninger Foundation. He had a Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology obtained at the University of Kansas.
Dr. Goldstein was a past president of the International Neuropsychological Society, the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and the Division of Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Psychological Association. He was a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in clinical neuropsychology. He had published extensively in the field of clinical neuropsychology, with particular emphases in the areas of alcoholism, schizophrenia, autism, and adult learning disability.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction 1. Historical perspectives Gerald Goldstein, Daniel N, Allen, John DeLuca

PART II. Psychometric Foundations 2. How to develop an empirically based psychological test Cecil Reynolds & Ron Livingston

Part III. Assessment of Intelligence 3. Interpreting pediatric intelligence tests: a framework from evidence-based medicine Andrew J. Freeman & Yen-Ling Chen 4. The development, expansion, and future of the WAIS-IV as a cornerstone in comprehensive cognitive assessments James A. Holdnack

Part IV. Achievement and Interest 5. Aptitude and achievement testing Lynda J. Katz & Franklin C. Brown 6. Interest inventories Jo-Ida C. Hansen

PART V. Neuropsychological Assessment 7. Sources of error and meaning in the pediatric neuropsychological evaluation Michael D. Welier, W. Grant Willis & Mary Lynne Kennedy 8. Adult comprehensive neuropsychological assessment N. Allen & John DeLuca 9. Assessment in sports: psychological and neuropsychological approaches Ruben J. Echemendia, Frank M. Webbe, Victoria C. Merritt, Gabriela Gonzalez

Part VI. Interviewing 10. Clinical interviewing Daniel N. Allen & Megan L. Becker 11. Structured and Semi-structured interviews for children Christopher A. Kearney, Andrew Freeman, Victoria Bacon 12. Diagnostic and symptom interviews for adults Daniel N. Allen & Megan Becker

Part VII. Personality Assessment 13. Overview of multidimensional inventories of psychopathology with a focus on the MMPI-2 Carolyn L. Williams, James N. Butcher, Jacob A. Paulsen 14. The Rorschach Philip Erdberg

Part VIII. Behavioral Assesment 15. Behavioral assessment of children Ross W. Greene, Thomas H. Ollendick 16. Behavioral assessment of adults in clinical settings Stephen N. Haynes, William H. O'Brien, Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula

Part IX. Special Topics and Applications 17. Psychological assessment of the elderly 18. Forensic psychology: practice issues MacNeill Horton, Henry V. Soper 19. Fairness in psychological testing Zarui A. Melikyan, Anna V. Agranovich, Antonio E. Puente 20. Technological developments in assessment Robert L. Kane, Thomas D. Parsons