Understanding why individuals engage in problem behavior is the first step toward developing effective interventions--and this user-friendly guide will help you do both. First, you'll get a primer on understanding challenging behaviors and learn how to conduct your own functional assessments to reveal what's behind an individual's actions. Then you'll get extensively field-tested strategies, including adaptable guidelines on- building rapport- ...

The study and measurement of human intelligence is one of the most controversial subjects in psychology. For much of its history, the focus has been on differences between people, what it means for one individual to be more intelligent than the other, and how such differences might have arisen. With the emphasis on these issues, the efforts to understand the general nature of intelligence have been obscured. The author provides clear, ...

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the MMPI-A&trade; <P>The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory&#150; Adolescent (MMPI-A&trade; ) is the most widely used objective personality assessment instrument with adolescents. Essentials of MMPI-A&trade; Assessment provides an authoritative source of information and guidance to maximize the clinical information ...

The fully revised edition of the premier guidebook to the Rorschach&reg; test <P>For the last three decades, Dr. John Exner&#146; s Comprehensive System has been the leading approach worldwide to administering and interpreting the Rorschach&reg; test. The Rorschach&reg; A Comprehensive System, Volume 1, Fourth Edition retains the thorough, authoritative coverage that has kept this book at the forefront of the field, while ...

A professional volume to help practitioners, clinicians, counsellors, and parole officers, assess risk and evaluate offenders who have been convicted of a sex crime. This is the most comprehensive volume available on every aspect of assessing risk. It compares all current risk assessment techniques of sex offenders in terms of ease of use, reliability, and predictive power. It is a complete guide to assessing sex offenders for likelihood of ...

The GARF Assessment Sourcebook is a comprehensive guide to the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF) scale for family assessment. This comprehensive guide to the GARF is an essential tool for practicing professionals as well as students in training programs. It provides a thorough description of each element of the GARF, a comprehensive review of the GARF in relation to other marriage and family assessment tools, summaries of GARF ...

Conduct effective diagnostic interviews and enhance client relationship skills <P>A thorough diagnostic interview is the foundation for informed and comprehensive clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. In addition to basic interviewing techniques, professionals must also possess skills in designing interviews to satisfy the requirements of the accrediting agencies and third-party payers who audit their clients&#146; charts. Now, ...

aus der Reihe AABT Clinical Assessment Series'>Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures to Depression, the first volume in a series of clinical assessment handbooks, is intended to guide clinicians and researchers in choosing practical tools relevant for clinical assessment, intervention, and/or research in this area. This volume provides critical overviews of key assessment issues and available assessment tools in depression. It provides summary tables comparing and contrasting ...

This text is intended to be of use as a reference for practitioners and textbook for graduate level courses. The fourth edition correlates validity, clinical and supplementary scales and summarises interpretations for each.; Experts in the field, the authors interpret MMPI and MMPI-2 profiles, applying them to mental health, private practice and counselling center populations. Their expertise is based on a comprehensive review of both research ...

In its first edition this book successfully enabled readers, with little or no prior knowledge of computing or statistics, to develop reliable and valid tests and scales for assessment or research purposes. In this edition, the author has thoroughly updated the text to include new recent advances in computer software and provide information on relevant internet resources. The book contains detailed guidelines for locating and constructing ...