A complete, thorough, and pragmatic guide to clinical assessment, this authoritative book meets a key need for both students and practitioners. T. Mark Harwood, Larry E. Beutler, Gary Groth-Marnat, and their associates describe how to construct a "moving picture" of each patient by integrating data from a variety of sources. Included are detailed, ......
This book presents cutting-edge research on adult attachment together with a complete overview of the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP), the authors' validated developmental assessment. In addition to identifying attachment classification groups, the AAP yields important information about dimensions--including defensive ......
This accessible introductory text addresses the core knowledge domain of research methods. It provides concise coverage of the central concepts, techniques, problems and debates in this key area, while encouraging a critical approach and developing students' higher level skills. Activities help readers build the underpinning generic critical thinking and transferable skills they need in order to become independent learners, and to meet the relevant requirements of their programme of study. The text provides core information on designing psychology research studies with key chapters on both quantitative and qualitative designs. Other chapters look at ethics, common problems, and advances and innovations.
IQ supporters see IQ measures as valid predictors of academic success. IQ critics believe that IQ is a limited measure of intelligence. This book tracks both sides of this debate. It provides a historical overview of IQ testing, and approaches both sides of the debate.
Provides a thorough and provocative examination of how different cultures measure intelligence and skill, why they use the tools they use, and how their assessment methods are changing in the globalizing world.
Masud Hoghughi's "Assessing Problem Children" quickly established itself as a guide for all those dealing with child and adolescent problems. This volume is a substantial update, covering the significant changes that have occurred in the field in the interim. Part One sets the framework, addressing a range of key issues about the nature and role of assessment in different contexts and presenting an evaluation of the various assessment approaches available. Part Two addresses the practice of assessment. The main and associated features of disorders within the PPA (Problem Profile Approach) categories are described with details of their onset and course, prevalence amongst young people, key predisposing factors, complications and impairment consequences.
Standardized testing bears the twin burden of controversy and complexity and is difficult for many to understand either dispassionately or technically. This book describes the state of public debate about testing across fields. It explains the primary criticisms of testing.
A norm-referenced communication assessment tool, this work focuses specifically on measuring young children's motor control and identifying impairments that may lead to a speech delay or disorder.
