Sourcebook of Adult Assessment Strategies / Edition 1

by Nicola S. Schutte, John M. Malouff

Overview

Assessment is a topic that is central to psychology. In the case of clinical psychology, assessment of individual functioning is of keen interest to individuals involved in clinical practice as well as research. Understand­ ing the multiple domains of functioning, evaluating characteristics of individuals in relation to others (normative assessment) as well as in relation to themselves (ipsative assessment), and charting progress or change over time all require well-developed assessment tools and methods. In light of the importance of the topic, books, journals, and monographs continue to emerge in large numbers to present, address, and evaluate diverse measures. Keeping informed about measures, identifying the measures in use, and obtaining the necessary information for their interpreta­ tion make the task of Sisyphus look like a vacation. In this book, the editors provide information that eases the task remarkably. The overriding goal of this book is to provide concise, useful, and essential information about measures of adult functioning. To that end, this is a sourcebook, a format that is particularly noteworthy. The measures are presented and organized according to diagnostic categories, as derived from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). The categories are broad (e. g. , substance-related disorders, anx­ iety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders) in recognition that those who develop measures and those who use them in clinical research or practice usually do not have narrowly defined diagnos­ tic entities in mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306450297
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/31/1995
Series:	NATO Science Series B:
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

1: The Psychometric Properties and Clinical Use of Scales.- 2: Delirium and Dementia.- 3: Substance-Related Disorders.- 4: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders.- 5: Mood Disorders.- 6: Anxiety Disorders.- 7: Somatoform Disorders and Measurement of Pain and Related Phenomena.- 8: Dissociative Disorders.- 9: Sexual Disorders.- 10: Eating Disorders.- 11: Sleep Disorders.- 12: Impulse Control Disorders.- 13: Relationship Problems.- 14: Other Conditions of Clinical Interest.- 15: Measures of Global Functioning.

Editorial Reviews

A text for practitioners, researchers, and instructors in the mental health field, presenting over 70 scales on a wide range of adult mental disorders, reviews of their psychometric properties, and user instructions. The scales include self-report, observer-based, and clinician-rating measures. The scales are presented in an order paralleling the structure of DSM-IV. The authors provide practical information about each scale, including purpose and development, administration and scoring, sample and cutoff scores, reliability, validity, and actual scale items. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

‘Provide[s] concise, useful, and essential information about measures of adult functioning....the editors are to be commended...By addressing researchers and practitioners and by focusing on assessment of domains of clinical relevance, the book contributes enormously to uniting clinical research and practice....play[s] a pivotal role in graduate training in psychology and mental health professions.'
Alan E. Kazdin, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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