Conducting Psychological Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners | 2 Edition

Details about Conducting Psychological Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners:

The primary market/readership of this text is individuals in training programs in health service (clinical, counseling, school, forensic, etc.) psychology (instructors and students).  A new set of guidelines from the APA on education and training in assessment will place specific emphasis on integration of multi-method/multi-measure data and the reconciliation of discrepancies in data, which are a primary focus of this text (and will be bolstered in the next edition of it).  These guidelines will set out the minimum requirements to train doctoral students in the assessment competency, and this area of integration is the one most often overlooked in training programs.  Especially with these guidelines to be published, a resource for making this part of the assessment process clearer and more palatable to students will be extremely useful.  Additionally, the process presented in the text is trans-theoretical, applicable to training programs that adhere to cognitive, developmental, neuropsychological, psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, and interpersonal (and other) models, so it will be useful across different types of training programs.