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Handbook of Psychological Assessment
by Gerald Goldstein, Michel Hersen. 627 pgs.

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Preface

1: Historical Perspectives

2: Development of a Scientific Test: A Practical Guide

3: Scaling Techniques

4: Assessment of Child Intelligence

5: Assessment of Adult Intelligence

6: Group Intelligence Tests

7: Achievement Testing L

8: Evaluation of Aptitudes

9: Interest Inventories

10: Comprehensive Neuropsychological Assessment Batteries

11: "Pediatric Neuropsychological Assessment" Examined

12: Specialized Neuropsychological Assessment Methods

13: Contemporary Clinical Interviewing: Integration of the Dsm-Iv, Managed-Care Concerns, Mental Status, and Research

14: Structured Interviews for Children and Adolescents

15: Structured Clinical Interviews for Adults

16: Objective Personality Assessment

17: Rorschach Assessment

18: Behavioral Assessment of Children

19: Behavioral Assessment of Adults

20: Testing and Industrial Application

21: Psychological Assessment of Ethnic Minorities

22: Psychological Assessment of the Elderly

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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Handbook of Psychological Assessment in Primary Care Settings
by Mark E. Maruish. 852 pgs.

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As managed care evolves, the movement toward the integration of behavioral healthcare services into primary medical practices has begun to gain momentum. Primary care providers, in general, are not professionally equipped to identify and monitor mental health and substance abuse problems. Thus, behavioral health care professionals have a new opportunity to make the skills and training they bring to primary care practitioners part of the solution of the health care crisis. Only recently has the value of the services they have been performing for decades and the need to make them available through formal programs been recognized. Addressing opportunity, value, and need, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of the application of psychological screening and assessment instruments in primary care settings. It will be an indispensable reference for psychologists and trainees, as well as for primary care providers who may want to add to their professional armamentarium the techniques and instruments presented herein. The authors: * provide a context for the use of psychological assessment instruments and consultation; * discuss issues related to integrating psychological testing into primary care settings; * describe in detail several brief, disease-specific, and general instruments that those practicing in an integrated delivery system should find useful; * present three in-depth case studies of primary care organizations in which psychological assessment has been implemented; and * take a look at how technology will likely affect and facilitate the use of psychological assessment instruments in primary care settings in the future.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

I: General Considerations

1: Introduction

2: Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care

3: Integration of Behavioral Health Care Services in Pediatric Primary Care Settings

4: Screening and Monitoring Psychiatric Disorder in Primary Care Populations1

5: Integrating Behavioral Health Assessment with Primary Care Services

II: Assessment Instruments

6: Evaluation of Mental Disorders with the Prime-Md

7: Directions and Compass-Pc

8: The Shedler Qpd Panel (Quick Psychodiagnostics Panel): a Psychiatric "Lab Test" for Primary Care

9: The Scl-90-R and Brief Symptom Inventory (Bsi) in Primary Care

10: Applications of the Symptom Assessment-45 Questionnaire (Sa-45) in Primary Care Settings

11: Daily Stress Inventory (Dsi) and Weekly Stress Inventory (Wsi)

Appendix A: Directions and Selected Items from the Weekly Stress Inventory

12: The Beck Depression Inventory (Bdi) and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (Ces-D)

13: The Hamilton Depression Inventory

14: Tools to Improve the Detection and Treatment of Depression in Primary Care

15: Geriatric Depression Scale

16: Using the Beck Anxiety Inventory in Primary Care

17: Self-Administered Alcoholism Screening Test (Saast)

18: Screening for Cognitive Impairments in Primary Care Settings

19: Using the Sf-36 Health Survey in Primary Care

20: The Primary Care Assessment Survey: a Tool for Measuring, Monitoring, and Improving Primary Care

21: The Difficult Doctor Patient Relationship Questionnaire

III: Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Projects

22: Improving Care for a Primary Care Population: Depression as an Example

23: A Case Study: the Kaiser Permanente Integrated Care Project

24: The Inova Primary Behavioral Health Care Pilot Project

IV: Future Directions

25: Future Directions in Psychological Assessment and Treatment in Primary Care Settings

Conclusions

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment, Vol. 1: General Considerations
by Mark E. Maruish. 508 pgs.

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Like other practices, test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient method of identifying problems, planning and monitoring a course of treatment, and assessing the outcomes of interventions. This thoroughly revised and greatly expanded third edition of a classic reference, now three volumes, constitutes an invaluable resource for practitioners who in a managed care era need to focus their testing not on the general goals of personality assessment, symptom identification, and diagnosis so often presented to them as students and trainees, but on specific questions: What course of treatment should this person receive? How is it going? Was it effective? New chapters describe new tests and models and new concerns such as ethical aspects of outcomes assessment. Volume I reviews general issues and recommendations concerning the use of psychological testing for screening for psychological disturbances, planning and monitoring appropriate interventions, and the assessing outcomes, and offers specific guidelines for selecting instruments. It also considers more specific issues such as the analysis of group and individual patient data, the selection and implementation of outcomes instrumentation, and the ethics of gathering and using outcomes data. Volume II discusses psychological measures developed for use with younger children and adolescents that can be used for the purposes outlined in Volume I; Volume III, those developed for use withadults. Drawing on the knowledge and experience of a diverse group of leading experts-test developers, researchers, clinicians and others, the third edition of The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes A

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The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment: General Considerations

1: Introduction

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2: Screening for Psychiatric Disorders

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3: Use of Psychological Tests/instruments for Treatment Planning

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4: Assessment as Intervention Within the Transtheoretical Model

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5: Use of Psychological Tests for Assessing Treatment Outcomes

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6: Guidelines for Selecting Psychological Instruments for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment

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7: Development and Implementation of a Behavioral Health Outcomes Program

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8: Progress and Outcomes Assessment of Individual Patient Data: Selecting Single-Subject Design and Statistical Procedures

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9: Selecting Statistical Procedures for Progress and Outcomes Assessment: the Analysis of Group Data

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10: Ethics Concerns in Outcomes Assessment

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11: Future Directions in the Use of Psychological Assessment for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment: Predictions and Recommendations

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The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment, Vol 2: Instruments for Children and Adolescents
by Mark E. Maruish. 648 pgs.

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Like other practices, test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient method of identifying problems, planning and monitoring a course of treatment, and assessing the outcomes of interventions. This thoroughly revised and greatly expanded third edition of a classic reference, now three volumes, constitutes an invaluable resource for practitioners who in a managed care era need to focus their testing not on the general goals of personality assessment, symptom identification, and diagnosis so often presented to them as students and trainees, but on specific questions: What course of treatment should this person receive? How is it going? Was it effective? New chapters describe new tests and models and new concerns such as ethical aspects of outcomes assessment. Volume I reviews general issues and recommendations concerning the use of psychological testing for screening for psychological disturbances, planning and monitoring appropriate interventions, and the assessing outcomes, and offers specific guidelines for selecting instruments. It also considers more specific issues such as the analysis of group and individual patient data, the selection and implementation of outcomes instrumentation, and the ethics of gathering and using outcomes data. Volume II discusses psychological measures developed for use with younger children and adolescents that can be used for the purposes outlined in Volume I; Volume III, those developed for use with adults. Drawing on the knowledge and experience of a diverse group of leading experts--test developers, researchers, clinicians and others, the third edition of The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment provides vital assistance to all clinicians, and to their trainees and graduate students.

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The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment: Instruments for Children and Adolescents

1: Use of the Children's Depression Inventory

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2: The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (masc)

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3: Characteristics and Applications of the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (rcmas)

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4: Overview and Update on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory—adolescent (mmpi—a)

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5: Studying Outcomes in Adolescents: the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (maci) and Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (mapi)

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6: Personality Inventory for Children, Second Edition (pic-2), Personality Inventory for Youth (piy), and Student Behavior Survey (sbs)

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7: The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (Aseba) for Ages 1.5 to 18 Years

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8: Conners' Rating Scales-Revised

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9: Youth Outcome Questionnaire (y-Oq)

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10: The Ohio Scales

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11: Use of the Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders for Diagnosis, Treatment Planning, and Outcome Assessment

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12: Treatment Planning and Evaluation with the Behavior Assessment System for Children (Basc)

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13: The Adolescent Treatment Outcomes Module (Atom)

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14: Clinical Assessment of Adolescent Drug Abuse with the Personal Experience Inventory (pei)

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15: The Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (cafas)

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16: The Child Health Questionnaire (chq) and Psychological Assessments: a Brief Update

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17: Measurement as Communication in Outcomes Management: the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (cans)

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18: Quality of Life of Children: Toward Conceptual Clarity

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Subject Index
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The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment, Vol. 3: Instruments for Adults
by Mark E. Maruish. 1008 pgs.

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Like other practices, test-based psychological assessment has been significantly affected by the health care revolution in the United States during the past two decades. Despite new limitations on psychological services across the board and psychological testing in particular, it continues to offer a rapid and efficient method of identifying problems, planning and monitoring a course of treatment, and assessing the outcomes of interventions. This thoroughly revised and greatly expanded third edition of a classic reference, now three volumes, constitutes an invaluable resource for practitioners who in a managed care era need to focus their testing not on the general goals of personality assessment, symptom identification, and diagnosis so often presented to them as students and trainees, but on specific questions: What course of treatment should this person receive? How is it going? Was it effective? New chapters describe new tests and models and new concerns such as ethical aspects of outcomes assessment. Volume I reviews general issues and recommendations concerning the use of psychological testing for screening for psychological disturbances, planning and monitoring appropriate interventions, and the assessing outcomes, and offers specific guidelines for selecting instruments. It also considers more specific issues such as the analysis of group and individual patient data, the selection and implementation of outcomes instrumentation, and the ethics of gathering and using outcomes data. Volume II discusses psychological measures developed for use with younger children and adolescents that can be used for the purposes outlined in Volume I; Volume III, those developed for use with adults. Drawing on the knowledge and experience of a diverse group of leading experts--test developers, researchers, clinicians and others, the third edition of The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment provides vital assistance to all clinicians, and to their trainees and graduate students.

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The Use of Psychological Testing for Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment: Instruments for Adults

1: The Scl-90-R, the Brief Symptom Inventory (Bsd, and the Bsi-18

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2: Symptom Assessment-45 Questionnaire (sa-45)

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3: Basis-32® and the Revised Behavior and Symptom Identification Scale (basis-R)

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4: The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (Aseba) for Ages 18 to 90+ Years

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5: The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale: Contemporary Applications

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6: The Outcome Questionnaire—45

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7: Evaluation of Mental Disorders with the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders and Patient Health Questionnaire

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8: Major Depressive Disorder: Assessing the Spectrum of Symptoms and Functional Impairment at Treatment Entry and Follow-Up

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9: The Beck Depression Inventory-Ii (Bdi-Ii) and the Beck Depression Inventory-Primary Care (Bdi-Pc)

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10: The Hamilton Depression Inventory

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11: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale: Review and Revision (cesd and Cesd-R)

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12: Geriatric Depression Scale

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13: Brigham Young University

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14: Measuring the Psychological Vital Signs of Anxiety, Anger, Depression, and Curiosity in Treatment Planning and Outcomes Assessment

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15: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (mmpi-2)

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16: Treatment Planning and Outcome Assessment in Adults: the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-Ill (mcmi-Iii)

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17: The Personality Assessment Inventory (pai)

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18: Rorschach Inkblot Method

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19: The Butcher Treatment Planning Inventory (Btpi): an Objective Guide to Treatment Planning

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20: Cross-Cultural Applications of the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised

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21: Assessment of Sexual Function and Dysfunction Via Psychological Instruments

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22: Psybercare-Cd: an Outcomes Assessment and Clinical Decision Support System for Chemical Dependency Treatment

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23: The Adult Personality Inventory

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24: Sf-36 Health Survey Update

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25: The Katz Adjustment Scales

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26: Use of the Qoli® or Quality of Life Inventory™ in Quality of Life Therapy and Assessment

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27: The Ucsf Client Satisfaction Scales: I. the Client Satisfaction Questionnaires

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28: The Ucsf Client Satisfaction Scales: Ii. the Service Satisfaction Scale-30

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29: The Experience of Care and Health Outcomes Survey (echo): a Consumer Survey to Collect Ratings of Behavioral Health Care Treatment, Outcomes and Plans

Appendix: Managed Behavioral Healthcare Organization

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Subject Index
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Psychological Assessment in Clinical Practice: A Pragmatic Guide
by Michel Hersen. 448 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

The Editor

The Authors

Section I: General Issues

Chapter 1: Pragmatic Issues of Assessment in Clinical Practice

Chapter 2: Ethical Issues in Assessment

Chapter 3: Panic, Agoraphobia, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Chapter 4: Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders

Chapter 5: Depressive Disorders

Chapter 6: Personality Disorders

Chapter 7: Substance Abuse

Chapter 8: Assessment of Eating Disorders

Chapter 9: Sexual Deviations

Chapter 10: Marital Dysfunction

Section III: Evaluation of Children and Adolescents

Chapter 11: Anxiety Disorders

Chapter 12: Depressive Disorders

Chapter 13: Mental Retardation

Chapter 14: Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Chapter 15: Conduct Disorders

Chapter 16: Substance-Use Disorders

Author Index

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Psychologists' Desk Reference (Part II "Psychological Testing")
by Gerald P. Koocher, John C. Norcross, Sam S. Hill III. 735 pgs.

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1: Lifetime Prevalence of Mental Disorders in the General Population

2: Mental Status Examination

3: Improving Diagnostic and Clinical Interviewing

4: The Multimodal Life History Inventory

5: Increasing the Accuracy of Clinical Judgment (and Thereby Treatment Effectiveness)

6: Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment

7: Adult Neuropsychological Assessment

8: Assessment and Intervention for Executive Dysfunction

9: Child and Adolescent Diagnosis with DSM-IV

10: Formulating Diagnostic Impressions with Ethnic and Racial Minority Children Using the Dsm-Iv-Tr

11: Medical Evaluation of Children with Behavioral or Developmental Disorders

12: Interviewing Parents

13: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder through the Life Span

14: Assessment of Suicidal Risk

15: Assessment of Malingering on Psychological Measures

16: Identification and Assessment of Alcohol Abuse

17: Measures of Acculturation

18: Dsm-Iv-Tr Classification System American Psychiatric Association

19: A Practical Guide for the Use of the Global Assessment of Functioning (Gaf) Scale of the Dsm-Iv-Tr

20: Assessment of Character Strengths

21: 50 Widely Used Psychological Tests

22: Sources of Information about Psychological Tests

23: Publishers of Psychological and Psychoeducational Tests

24: Types of Test Scores and Their Percentile Equivalents

25: Assessing the Quality of a Psychological Testing Report

26: Child Behavior Observations

27: Measures of Children's Psychological Development

28: Assessing Mmpi-2 Profile Validity

29: Clinical Scales of the Mmpi-2

30: Supplementary Scales of the Mmpi-2

31: Characteristics of High and Low Scores on the Mmpi-2 Clinical Scales

32: Empirical Interpretation of the Mmpi-2 Codetypes

33: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III)

34: Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI)

35: Thumbnail Guide to the Rorschach Method

36: Rorschach Assessment

37: Rorschach Assessment

38: Patients' Rights in Psychotherapy

39: Compendium of Empirically Supported Therapies

40: Compendium of Psychotherapy Treatment Manuals

41: Compendium of Empirically Supported Therapy Relationships

42: Enhancing Adherence

43: Methods to Reduce and Counter Resistance in Psychotherapy

44: Repairing Ruptures in the Therapeutic Alliance

45: Systematic Assessment and Treatment Matching

46: Stages of Change

47: Psychotherapy Treatment Plan Writing

48: Key Principles in the Assessment of Psychotherapy Outcome

49: Treatment and Management of the Suicidal Patient

50: Crisis Intervention

51: Impact of Disasters

52: Principles in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

53: Psychotherapy with Reluctant and Involuntary Clients

54: Treatment Matching in Substance Abuse

55: Motivational Interviewing

56: Anxiety/Anger Management Training

57: Psychological Interventions in Adult Disease Management

58: Assessing and Treating Normative Male Alexithymia

59: Assessing and Treating Male Sexual Dysfunction

60: Assessing and Treating Female Sexual Dysfunction

61: Assessing and Reducing Risk of Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

62: Guidelines for Treating Women in Psychotherapy

63: Assessment and Treatment of Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals

64: Psychotherapy with Older Adults

65: Refusal Skills Training

66: Sexual Feelings, Actions, and Dilemmas in Psychotherapy

67: Six Steps to Improve Psychotherapy Homework Compliance

68: Stimulus Control Instructions for the Treatment of Insomnia

69: Parent Management Training for Childhood Behavior Disorders

70: Hypnosis and Relaxation Scripting

71: Working with the Religiously Committed

72: Psychotherapy with Cognitively Impaired Adults

73: Early Termination and Referral of Clients in Psychotherapy

74: Guidelines for Relapse Prevention

75: Guidelines for Terminating Psychotherapy

76: Choice of Treatment Format

77: Genograms in Assessment and Therapy

78: Guidelines for Conducting Couple and Family

79: Treating High-Conflict Couples

80: Treatment of Marital Infidelity

81: Group Psychotherapy

82: Psychoeducational Group Treatment

83: Principles of Treatment with the Behaviorally Disordered Child

84: Psychological Interventions in Childhood Chronic Illness

85: Methods to Engage the Reluctant Adolescent

86: The APSAC Study Guides

87: Interviewing Children When Sexual Abuse Is Suspected

88: Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse

89: Normal Medical Laboratory Values and Measurement Conversions

90: Use of Height and Weight Assessment Tools

91: Medical Conditions That May Present as Psychological Disorders

92: Adult Psychopharmacology 1

93: Adult Psychopharmacology 2

94: Pediatric Psychopharmacology

95: Dietary Supplements and Psychological Functioning

96: Common Drugs of Abuse

97: Top Internet Sites for Psychologists and Their Clients

98: Highly Rated Self-Help Books and Autobiographies

99: Popular Films Portraying Mental Disorders

100: Facilitating Client Involvement in Self-Help Groups

101: National Self-Help Groups and Organizations

102: Known and Unproven Herbal Treatments for Psychological Disorders

103: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2002)

104: Privacy, Confidentiality, and Privilege

105: Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization (Civil Commitment)

106: Physical Restraint and Seclusion

107: Basic Principles for Dealing with Legal Liability Risk Situations

108: Defending against Legal Complaints

109: Dealing with Licensing Board and Ethics Complaints

110: Dealing with Subpoenas

111: Glossary of Legal Terms of Special Interest in Mental Health Practice

112: Fifteen Hints on Money Matters and Related Ethical Issues

113: How to Confront an Unethical Colleague

114: Confidentiality and the Duty to Protect

115: Forensic Evaluations and Testimony

116: Forensic Evaluation Outline

117: Forensic Referrals Checklist

118: Expert Testimony in Depositions

119: Forensic Assessment Instruments

120: Evaluation of Competency to Stand Trial

121: A Model for Clinical Decision Making with Dangerous Patients

122: Principles for Conducting a Comprehensive Child Custody Evaluation

123: Recognizing, Assisting, and Reporting the Impaired Psychologist

124: Essential Features of Professional Liability Insurance

125: Sample Psychotherapist-Patient Contract

126: Fundamentals of the Hipaa Privacy Rule

127: Basic Elements of Consent

128: Basic Elements of Release Forms

129: Prototype Mental Health Records

130: Utilization Review Checklist

131: Contracting with Managed Care Organizations

132: Billing Issues

133: Psychologists' Fees and Incomes

134: Establishing a Consultation Agreement

135: Computerized Billing and Office Management Programs

136: Therapist Self-Care Checklist

137: Conducting Effective Clinical Supervision

138: Guide to Interacting with the Media

139: Common Clinical Abbreviations and Symbols

140: Major Professional Associations

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What Do You Want in the Next Edition?
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Handbook of Psychological and Educational Assessment of Children: Personality, Behavior, and Context
by Cecil R. Reynolds, Randy W. Kamphaus. 540 pgs.

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1: Personality Assessment Research

2: Procedural Issues Associated with the Behavioral Assessment of Children

3: The Projective Hypothesis and the Development of Projective Techniques for Children

4: Projective Storytelling Techniques

5: Evaluation of Projective Drawings

6: The Sentence Completion as a Tool for Assessing Emotional Disturbance

7: Using the Rorschach with Children and Adolescents

8: Use of the Holtzman Inkblot Technique with Children

9: Using the Clinical Interview to Assess Children's Interpersonal Reasoning and Emotional Understanding

10: Structured Diagnostic Interviewing

11: Direct Behavioral Observation for Classrooms

12: Assessment of Childhood Depression

13: The Assessment of Attention Via Continuous Performance Tests

14: Assessment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

15: Multisource and Multidimensional Object Assessment of Adjustment

16: The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

17: The Behavior Assessment System for Children

18: The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment

19: Assessing Social Competence in Children and Adolescents

20: Adaptive Behavior Scales

21: Assessing the Family Context

22: Issues in Child Custody Evaluation and Testimony

23: Assessment of Childhood Anxiety

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Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-Cultural Assessment
by Ronald K. Hambleton, Peter F. Merenda, Charles D. Spielberger. 378 pgs.

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Relatively few instruments have been truly adapted for application in other languages and cultures. The goal of this new book is to put an end to the faulty practices of adopting or "borrowing" tests from one culture without properly adapting them for another as set forth by the principles established by the International Test Commission (ITC).

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I: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Educational and Psychological Tests: Chological and Methodological Issues

1: Issues, Designs, and Technical Guidelines for Adapting Tests into Multiple Languages and Cultures

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2: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Adapting Tests

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3: Selected Ethical Issues Relevant to Test Adaptations

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4: Statistical Methods for Identifying Flaws in the Test Adaptation Process

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5: Using Bilinguals to Evaluate the Comparability of Different Language Versions of a Test

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6: Establishing Score Comparability for Tests Given in Different Languages

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7: Adapting Achievement and Aptitude Tests: a Review of Methodological Issues

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II: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Adaptation and Psychological Tests: Applications to Achievement, Aptitude, and Personality Tests

8: Test Adaptation in a Large-Scale Certification Program

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9: Conversion of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale into Spanish: an Early Test Adaptation Effort of Considerable Consequence

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10: Developing Tests for Use in Multiple Languages and Cultures: a Plea for Simultaneous Development

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11: The Psychometrics of Adaptation: Evaluating Measurement Equivalence Across Languages and Cultures

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12: Constructing, Adapting, and Validating Admissions Tests in Multiple Languages: the Israeli Case

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13: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Educational and Psychological Testing

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14: Cross-Cultural Assessment of Emotional States and Personality Traits

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Subject Index
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Psychological Testing in the Age of Managed Behavioral Healthcare
by Mark E. Maruish. 350 pgs.

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Written by a recognized expert in assessment employed by a large managed behavioral healthcare organization (MBHO), this book seeks to provide psychologists who rely on testing as an integral part of their practice, a guide on how to survive and thrive in the era of managed behavioral healthcare. It also offers ideas on how to capitalize on the opportunities that managed care presents to psychologists. The goal is to demonstrate that despite the tightening of the reins on authorizations for reimbursable testing, psychological testing can continue to play an important role in psychological practice and behavioral healthcare service delivery. The book presents ideas for: *increasing the likelihood of getting tests authorized by MBHOs; *using inexpensive/public domain assessment instruments; *ethically using psychological testing in MBHO settings; *capitalizing on the movement to integrate primary care and behavioral healthcare through the use of psychological testing; and *designing and implementing outcomes assessment systems within MBHO settings. Intended for practicing psychologists and other behavioral health practitioners employed by MBHOs in direct service delivery, care management or supervisory positions, as well as for graduate clinical or counseling psychology students who will most likely work in MBHO settings.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

2: Potential Applications of Psychological Testing

3: Authorization of Psychological Testing and Assessment

4: Psychological Test Instruments, Technology, and Criteria for Their Selection

5: Useful Psychological Measures for Managed Behavioral Health Care Systems

6: Issues and Considerations in Developing Test-Based Outcomes Assessment Programs

7: Implementing Test-Based Outcomes Assessment Systems

8: Applications and Opportunities in Primary and Integrated Care Settings

9: Ethical and Professional Issues

References

Author's Note

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Subject Index
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Behavioral, Social and Emotional Assessment of Children and Adolescents
by Kenneth W. Merrell. 442 pgs.

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Contents in Brief

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Foundations and Methods of Assessment

Chapter 1: Foundations of Assessment

Conclusions

Chapter 2: Assessment and Classification

Conclusions

Chapter 3: Direct Behavioral Observation

Conclusions

Chapter 4: Behavior Rating Scales

Conclusions

Chapter 5: Clinical Interviewing

Conclusions

Chapter 6: Sociometric Techniques

Conclusions

Chapter 7: Self-Report Instruments

Conclusions

Chapter 8: Projective-Expressive Techniques

Conclusions

Part II: Assessment of Specific Problems, Competencies, and Populations

Chapter 9: Assessment of Externalizing Problems

Conclusions

Chapter 10: Assessment of Internalizing Problems

Conclusions

Chapter 11: Assessment of Other Behavioral, Social, and Emotional Problems

Conclusions

Chapter 12: Assessment of Social Skills and Peer Relationships

Conclusions

Chapter 13: Assessment of Young Children

Conclusions

Chapter 14: Assessment and Cultural Diversity

Conclusions

Appendix: Sources for Published Assessment Instruments

References

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Assessing Adolescents in Educational, Counseling and Other Settings (Part II "An Introduction to Psychological Assessment")
by Robert D. Hoge. 318 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction

I: An Introduction to Contemporary Research and Theory on Adolescence

2: The Analysis of Adolescent Development

3: Identifying and Treating Problem Behavior in Adolescents

II: An Introduction to Psychological Assessment

4: Basic Concepts in Assessment

5: Practical and Ethical Issues in Assessment

III: Assessment Instruments

6: Measures of Aptitudes and Achievement

7: Personality Tests

8: The Interview

9: Behavioral Ratings and Checklists

10: Rating and Questionnaire Measure of Attitudes, Values, Interests, and Cognitions

11: Composite and Environmental Measures

12: Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix

References

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The Psychological Assessment of Abused and Traumatized Children
by Francis D. Kelly. 260 pgs.

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The LEA Series in Personality and Clinical Psychology

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I: Young Children and The Experience of Trauma and Abuse

1: The Representational World of The Young Child: The Role of the Four Psychologies

2: The Psychological Representation of Abuse and Trauma

3: "Object Representation Assessment Of Children: Tat and Rorschach Research in Relation to the Abused And Traumatized Child"

4: Object Representation Scales

5: Old Wine in New Bottles--The Borderline Child Revisited: Contemporary Perspectives on Diagnosis and Assessment

6: Three Faces of Abuse and Trauma: The Sequelae of Physical, Sexual, and Complex, Chronic Experiences of Maltreatment

7: "The Abused and Traumatized Child: Changes in Object Relations and Impact of Therapeutic and Mutative Experiences and Ego Functions--The Influence"

8: Object Representations of Abusive and Maltreating Parents: A Tale of Two Women

Concluding Remarks

References

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Psychological Assessment with the MMPI-2
by Alan F. Friedman, Richard Lewak, David S. Nichols, James T. Webb. 688 pgs.

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User-friendly yet sophisticated, Psychological Assessment With the MMPI-2 will be welcomed by practicing psychologists, researchers, and students alike. This long-awaited second edition constitutes the single most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook of MMPI-2 interpretation. Completely rewritten to address the changes to the original instrument that resulted in the MMPI-2 in l989, it describes in detail all the MMPI-2 scales--clinical, supplementary, and content--and offers empirically-grounded and clinically-tested recommendations for their use. The last decade has seen an explosion of research, as well as a steady accumulation of experiential wisdom; bridging the gap between behavioral science and practice, the authors review all the major findings and their implications and draw on rich clinical material to illuminate the issues. This second edition: * helps users with forensic interests including attorneys needing a reference for expert review; * gives step-by-step advice on interpreting profiles; * includes treatment recommendations in the explanation of every code pattern; * provides extensive guidance on report-writing for new users; * compares the most current MMPI-2 computer reports; * features numerous tables, figures, and appendices for all the MMPI-2 scales including the newer validity measures; and * incorporates 570 references (235 completely new).

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Title Page

Contents

Code-Pattern Look-Up Table

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Appendix Tables

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Development of the Mmpi and Mmpi-2

2: Measures of Profile Validity

3: The Clinical Scales and Their Derivatives

4: Administration and Scoring

5: Interpreting the Validity Scales

6: Interpreting the Mmpi-2 Clinical Scales

9: Interpretation and Report Writing

10: Computerized Interpretation of the Mmpi-2

Appendix A: Scoring Keys and Norms for Mmpi-2 Scales and Critical Items

Appendix B: Mmpi-2 Uniform and Linear T-Score Conversions for Validity, Clinical, Supplementary, Content, Content Component, Subscales, and Special Scales

Appendix D: K- and Non-K-Corrected T-Score Values for the Mmpi-2 Basic Scales Based on the Original Minnesota Normative Group (N=225 Men, 315 Women)

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Subject Index

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