Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception

Beschreibung

This essential single-source guide to multimethod psychological assessment of disordered thinking and perception offers practical insights for applying key evaluation measures and strategies, along with important contextual considerations.<BR><BR> It provides mental health professionals with valuable empirical and interpretive support as they answer assessment questions for diagnostic and decision-making purposes.<BR> <BR> Chapters are written by assessment psychologists who are renowned for their expertise and contributions in developing and researching specific assessment instruments or topics.

They provide up-to-date information about widely used self-report measures and interview techniques, performance-based tests, and cognitive and neuropsychological measures, including their conceptual basis, psychometric properties, empirical support, and key interpretive elements.<BR> <BR> Additional chapters review special developmental and cross-cultural considerations, as well as guidelines for forensic assessments.<BR><BR> Two in-depth case examples provide comprehensive illustrations of the multimethod evaluation process with an adolescent and an adult.

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