
Handbook of Psychological Assessment
- 4th Edition - February 26, 2019
- Editors: Gerald Goldstein, Daniel N. Allen, John Deluca
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 2 0 3 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 5 1 4 - 7
The fourth edition of the Handbook of Psychological Assessment, provides scholarly overviews of the major areas of psychological assessment, including test development, psychomet… Read more
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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
Researchers in psychometrics, personality, clinical psychology, school psychology, and cognitive psychology as well as practitioners in clinical psychology, educational psychology, personality, and forensic psychology
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
- Edition: 4
- Published: February 26, 2019
- Language: English
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Gerald Goldstein
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.
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Daniel N. Allen
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