UID:
edocfu_9960161366102883
Format:
1 online resource (487 pages)
ISBN:
0-12-802490-9
Content:
Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications. Discusses psychometric issues and empirical studies that speak to same Explores the family context in relation to children's behavioral outcomes Features major personality measures as well as their cross cultural variations Identifies the importance of coping and resilience in assessing personality and psychopathology Examines precursors of aggression and violence for prediction and prevention
Note:
1. Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test Construction; 2. Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory, and Item Response Perspectives on Reliability; 3. Validity; 4. Advances in Latent Variable Measurement Modeling; 5. Executive Function, Theory of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior; 6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD; 7. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes; 8. The Assessment of Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes; 9. Perspectives and Advances in Personality; 10. Measures of Personality; 11. Advances in Theoretical, Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology; 12. Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures; 13. Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental Criminology; 14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and Corresponding Measures; 15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-802219-1
Language:
English
