This book explores the interplay between factors impacting English language learners and considers implications for assessment. It advocates for an integrated assessment of bilingual children that considers multiple influences.
Demonstrates how to address practical and ethical challenges when assessing older adults with neurocognitive disorders, like dementia. The contributors are expert clinicians who draw on real life experiences conducting clinical capacity assessments in civil matters, illustrating best practices.
Assessment of executive and senior level positions requires special consideration. Executive assessment is a specialized application of individual psychological assessment that is focused on executive and senior leadership positions. This population warrants special consideration because of the the large and lasting impact they have on the health ......
Written by experts in the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), this book discusses the utility of psychological tests based on US norms in making clinical decisions for clients from different cultural backgrounds.
In this groundbreaking volume, the authors introduce a novel conditional reasoning (CR) framework to indirectly assess the implicit personality--the unconscious, inaccessible component of personality that governs much of our behavior but has always been difficult to measure.
Strategies for Measuring and Improving Student Performance
Shows how to develop assessments that undergraduate psychology faculty and administrators can use when designing pedagogies, courses, and curricula around student learning goals, including those identified by APA's Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psychology Major.
Shows mental health providers how to expand their practice in order to treat older adults. Chapters describe tools and techniques for assessing and treating common conditions that practitioners encounter when working with older adults, including depression, anxiety, cognitive impairment, and prescription drug misuse.
Assessment of Partner Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners provides a comprehensive review of assessment information spanning five decades of research and three types of assessment methods: interview, self-report measures, and analogue assessment/behaviour coding devices.
The Rorschach is perhaps the most famous psychological instrument of all time, yet its purpose and utility are often misunderstood. In this introductory guide, authors James Choca and Edward Rossini demonstrate the Rorschach's value to modern psychology as an essential clinical tool for assessing clients' thought processes.
