Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception - Softcover

 
9781433835605: Psychological Assessment of Disordered Thinking and Perception

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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.

It provides mental health professionals with valuable empirical and interpretive support as they answer assessment questions for diagnostic and decision-making purposes.
 
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.
 
Additional chapters review special developmental and cross-cultural considerations, as well as guidelines for forensic assessments.

Two in-depth case examples provide comprehensive illustrations of the multimethod evaluation process with an adolescent and an adult.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Irving B. Weiner, PHD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the University of South Florida and former Director of Psychological Services at the University of South Florida Psychiatry Center. He is a Fellow of the APA, Association for Psychological Science, and a Diplomate of Professional Psychology in both Clinical and Forensic Psychology.

James H. Kleiger, PSYD, ABPP, is a Diplomate and Fellow in the Society for Personality Assessment. He is past President of the Baltimore Washington Society for Psychoanalysis and Director of the Postdoctoral Psychology Training Program at the Menninger Clinic. He is the author of Assessing Psychosis: A Clinician’s Guide, Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena, and The 11th Inkblot.

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