Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment

Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O'Brien (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
9781475709711 (ISBN)

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Behavioral assessment is a psychological assessment paradigm that emphasizes empirically supported, multimethod and multi-informant assessment of specific, observable behaviors and contemporaneous causal variables in the natural environment. The behavioral assessment paradigm stresses the use of well-validated assessment instruments and assumptions that social/environmental, cognitive, and physiological variables are often important sources of behavior variance.

The behavioral assessment paradigm has had a major influence on the field of psychological assessment. It has affected the way research on the causes of behavior disorders is conducted, the way treatment processes and outcomes are evaluated, and the way treatment decisions are made.

The goal of this book is to present the characteristics and underlying assumptions of the behavioral assessment paradigm and to show how they affect the strategies of behavioral assessment. Although all of the concepts and strategies discussed in this book are applicable in the research, this book focuses on the use of behavioral assessment to guide clinical judgements.

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. Concepts of Causation in the Behavioral Assessment Paradigm.- 11. Psychometric Foundations of Behavioral Assessment.- III. Observation and Inference.- 12. Principles and Strategies of Behavioral Observation.- 13. Clinical Case Formulation.- References.- Author Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2012
Reihe/Serie	Applied Clinical Psychology
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 348 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Klinische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-13	9781475709711 / 9781475709711
Zustand	Neuware