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.
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.
The Second Edition of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised with an additional chapter providing a powerful rebuttal to The Bell Curve. Ronald J Samuda presents a comprehensive analysis of the perspectives, pitfalls, fallacies, issues, consequences and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests with American ......
This text examines various theories regarding IQ. The author reviews and rejects claims such as: tht IQ tests provide a measure of inherent mental capacities; that intelligence and "race" are linked; that there is a "gene for intelligence"; and that low IQ means restricted capabilities. He aims to show how these and other claims havae dubious ......
Author Theresa Kline guides readers through the process of designing and evaluating a test, paying careful attention to ensure that the test meets the highest professional standards. The author uses simple, clear examples throughout and fully details the required statistical analyses. Topics include - but are not limited to - design of item stems and responses; sampling strategies; classical and modern test theory; IRT program examples; reliability of tests and raters; validation using content, criterion-related, and factor analytic approaches; test and item bias; and professional and ethical issues in testing. With the student in mind, Kline has created features that ease them into more difficult ideas, always stressing the practical use of theoretical concepts.
Ethical Quandaries, Challenges, and Best Practices
"Among many of the ethical issues clinicians encounter in their practice, diagnosing someone with a given mental disorder just for the purpose of reimbursement of services is perhaps the number one ethical dilemma. This book is an outstanding review of the conceptual and empirical literature on this particular dilemma. But the most important ......
