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Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment
Principles and Applications
- 1st Edition - June 19, 2017
- Authors: Carina Coulacoglou, Donald H. Saklofske
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 2 1 9 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 2 4 9 0 - 4
Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their correspon… Read more
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Request a sales quotePsychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications.
- Discusses psychometric issues and empirical studies that speak to same
- Explores the family context in relation to children’s behavioral outcomes
- Features major personality measures as well as their cross cultural variations
- Identifies the importance of coping and resilience in assessing personality and psychopathology
- Examines precursors of aggression and violence for prediction and prevention
Researchers in psychological assessment, educational psychology, school psychology, personality and cognition
PART I: PSYCHOMETRIC FOUNDATIONS OF TEST CONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT1. Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction 2. Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability3. Validity 4. Advances in Latent Variable Measurement Modeling
PART II: METACOGNITIVE, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, MEMORY AND BEHAVIORAL IMPLICATIONS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
5. Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCDPART III: TEMPERAMENT, PERSONALITY AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
7. The Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology8. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes9. Perspectives and Advances in Personality10. Measures of PersonalityPART IV: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DOMAINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC TAXONOMIES AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL DISORDERS
11. Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology12. Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding MeasuresPART V: AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THEIR OUTCOMES
13. Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide- No. of pages: 500
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 19, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128022191
- eBook ISBN: 9780128024904
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