Carina Coulacoglou, Donald H. Saklofske

Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment (eBook, ePUB)

Principles and Applications

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780128024904
• Artikelnr.: 48551957

Autorenporträt

Dr. Carina Coulacoglou is a test developer and the founder of the Projective Fairy Tale Test Society. The Fairy Tale Test (FTT) is a comprehensive personality test for children (6-12 years of age. The test has been standardized in several cultures and is published in 13 languages. She has taught courses on child development and psychological assessment at the University of La Verne (Athens campus), the Mediterranean college and Pantion University of Athens. She has published several articles and books.Dr. Donald H. Saklofske is Professor, Department of Psychology at The University of Western Ontario, Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University and International Research Associate, University of Florence. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Canadian Psychological Association. Don's research focuses on personality, intelligence, individual differences and psychological assessment. He has published more than 300 journal articles, book chapters and books. He is Editor-in-Chief of Personality and Individual Differences and Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: PSYCHOMETRIC FOUNDATIONS OF TEST CONSTRUCTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSESSMENT1. Recent Advances in Psychological Assessment and Test
Construction 2. Classical Test Theory, Generalizability Theory and Item
Response Perspectives on Reliability3. Validity 4. Advances in Latent
Variable Measurement Modeling
PART II: METACOGNITIVE, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL COGNITIVE, MEMORY AND BEHAVIORAL
IMPLICATIONS OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS5. Executive Function, Theory
of Mind, and Adaptive Behavior6. Metacognition, Empathy, and Cognitive
Biases in Schizophrenia and OCD
PART III: TEMPERAMENT, PERSONALITY AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS7. The
Role of Temperament in Development and Psychopathology8. The Assessment of
Family, Parenting, and Child Outcomes9. Perspectives and Advances in
Personality10. Measures of Personality
PART IV: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DOMAINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRIC
TAXONOMIES AND ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL DISORDERS11. Advances in Theoretical,
Developmental, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Psychopathology12.
Psychiatric Taxonomies and Corresponding Measures
PART V: AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE: EFFORTS TO PREDICT THEIR OUTCOMES13.
Theoretical Perspectives of Criminal Behaviors and Developmental
Criminology14. General Overview of Violence Risk Assessment and
Corresponding Measures15. The Aggressive Implications of Suicide