Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment is a user-friendly overview of the most important principles and concepts of clinical assessment. It provides readers with a science-based framework for interpreting assessment research and making good assessment decisions, such as selecting the best instruments and measures and interpreting the obtained assessment data. Written in a direct and highly readable fashion, with plenty of clinical examples that illustrate the relevance of psychometric principles and assessment research, this text is one every professional and graduate student needs to read. The second edition is expanded and fully updated, and includes additional coverage of the principles and methods of developing new assessment instruments.

Topics include: Abnormality, Addictive personality and behaviours, Aggression, Agoraphobia and panic disorders, Alcoholism, Alzheimer's Disease, Amnesia, Analytical psychotherapy, Multiple personality, Anorexia and bulimia nervosa, Antisocial personality, Anxiety disorders, Aphasias, Attention-Deficit disorder, Autism, Bed-Wetting, Behavioral family therapy, Biofeedback, Borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personalities, Brain disorders, Child abuse, Codependent personality, Cognitive therapy, Dementia, Depression, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Down syndrome, Dyslexia, Eating disorders, Forgetting and forgetfulness, Geriatric psychiatry, Gestalt therapy, Grief and guilt, Group therapy, Hypochondriasis, Identity crisis, Insomnia, Jealousy, Juvenile delinquency, Learning disabilities, Lobotomy, Manic-Depressive disorder, Mental health, Mental retardation, Midlife crisis, Modeling therapies, Music, dance & theater therapy, Neurosis, Obsessive-Compulsive disorder, Paranoia, Phobias, Play therapy, Post-traumatic stress, Psychiatry, Psychoactive drug therapy, Psychoanalysis, Psychosis, Psychosomatic disorders, Psychosurgery, Psychotherapy, Reality therapy, Schizophrenia, Seasonal affective disorder, Sexual dysfunction, Sibling rivalry, Sleep Apnea Syndromes, Stress, Substance abuse, Suicide, Teenage suicide, Transactional analysis, and Type A Behavior pattern.

Focuses on issues in methodology and evaluation in order to clarify how particular research designs might answer specific psychotherapy service questions. Features guidelines for good research practice and considers how inevitable problems in implementation can be anticipated and overcome. Lastly, it addresses the opportunities and challenges facing psychotherapy research.

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Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment is a user-friendly overview of the most important principles and concepts of clinical assessment. It provides readers with a science-based framework for interpreting assessment research and making good assessment decisions, such as selecting the best instruments and measures and interpreting the obtained assessment data. Written in a direct and highly readable fashion, with plenty of clinical examples that illustrate the relevance of psychometric principles and assessment research, this text is one every professional and graduate student needs to read. Numerous elements are used consistently throughout the book to facilitate understanding and retention, such as: âe¢ text boxes that provide extended presentations of the application of principles and research âe¢ end-of-chapter summaries that review key issues covered, and âe¢ additional recommended sources for each chapter. A detailed glossary that defines key measurement and assessment concepts is also included, making this book an invaluable reference and supplementary text for anyone who does clinical assessment in the health and mental health domains.