To diagnose a mental disorder or evaluate a disability claim, clinicians must assess functional impairment -- not just the presence of symptoms. Meeting a key need, the Barkley Functional Impairment Scale (BFIS) is the first empirically based, norm-referenced tool designed to evaluate possible impairment in 15 major domains of psychosocial ......
Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales Developmental Profile (CSBS DP (TM))
Derived from the popular, norm-referenced CSBS™, CSBS DP™ is shorter and faster and lets early intervention professionals begin identification earlier. CSBS DP™ is an ideal starting point for planning IFSPs, determining the efficacy of inteventions, documenting changes in a childs behavior over time, and identifying areas for further assessment.
Updated with new chapters on multiple regression and high-level research methods, this 4th edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology delivers all you need to develop a practical understanding of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in psychology.
To help address the suicide public health crisis, this book presents deliberate practice exercises to reduce clinicians' fears of talking about suicide and self-injury with clients and assessing for risk with skill and empathy. These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back ......
This book presents a detailed yet practical summary of the major issues and instruments involved in the assessment of posttraumatic disturbances. Drs. Eadie and Briere analyze the types of traumas most likely to produce long-term difficulties, and explain the biological, historical, social, and cultural factors that mediate between trauma and ......
This book explains the process by which assessment psychologists can evaluate and report the nature and severity of emotional dysregulation in their young patients. As referrals for clinical assessment of complex children and adolescents frequently involve questions about emotional regulation in general and the possibility of bipolar spectrum ......
A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention
In Risk Rules - A Practical Guide to Structured Professional Judgement and Violence Prevention, experts from a range of fields provide a concise, accessible introduction to the principles of violence risk assessment and management, and explore the challenges of accurate clinical prediction across a range of populations and contexts.
An essential, sensitive overview on the current and future use of AI tools in the behavioral health care context. Advances in AI are making possible more personalized, precise, efficient, predictive, and portable behavioral health care. This overview offers an important resource for practitioners who want to understand how AI can be used to ......
Coverage includes the essential measurement topics of scale development, item writing and analysis, and reliability and validity, as well as more advanced topics such as exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, item response theory, diagnostic classification models, test bias and fairness, standard setting, and equating.
