Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment - Rilegato

Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O'Brien

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ISBN 10: 0306462214 ISBN 13: 9780306462214

Casa editrice: Springer, 2007

Riassunto

Behavioural assessment is a psychological assessment paradigm that emphasizes empirically supported, multimethod and multi-informant assessment of specific, observable behaviours and contemporaneous causal variables in the natural environment. The behavioural assessment paradigm stresses the use of well-validated assessment instruments and assumptions that social/environmental, cognitive, and physiological variables are often important sources of behaviour variance. The behavioural assessment paradigm has had a major influence on the field of psychological assessment. It has affected the way research on the causes of behaviour disorders is conducted, the way treatment processes and outcomes are evaluated, and the way treatment decisions are made. The goal of this work is to present the characteristics and underlying assumptions of the behavioural assessment paradigm and to show how they affect the strategies of behavioural assessment. Although all of the concepts and strategies discussed in this volume are applicable in research, the author focuses on the use of behavioural assessment to guide clinical judgements.

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Contenuti

Preface. Acknowledgements. I: Introduction to Behavioral Assessment. 1. Background, Characteristics and History. 2. Current Status and Applications. 3. Functional Psychological Assessment and Clinical Judgment. 4. Goals. II: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Behavioral Assessment. 5. Scholarly, Hypothesis-Testing, and Time-Series Assessment Strategies. 6. Idiographic and Nomothetic Assessment. 7. Specificity of Variables. 8. Assumptions About the Nature of Behavior Problems. 9. Basic Concepts of Causation. 10. Models of Causality for Behavior Problems. 11. Psychometric Foundations of Behavioral Assessment. III: Observation and Inference. 12. Behavioral Observation: Principles and Methods. 13. Clinical Case Formulation. Index.

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Book by Haynes Stephen N OBrien William Hayes

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306462214
• ISBN 13: 9780306462214
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 366
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