Main description:

Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment is a user-friendly overview of the most important principles and concepts of clinical assessment. It provides readers with a science-based framework for interpreting assessment research and making good assessment decisions, such as selecting the best instruments and measures and interpreting the obtained assessment data. Written in a direct and highly readable fashion, with plenty of clinical examples that illustrate the relevance of psychometric principles and assessment research, this text is one every professional and graduate student needs to read. The second edition is expanded and fully updated, and includes additional coverage of the principles and methods of developing new assessment instruments.

Contents:

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction to the Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment

Chapter 2: Reliability of Clinical Assessment Measures

Chapter 3: Validity of Clinical Assessment Measures

Chapter 4: Applying Psychometric Evidence to Clinical Judgments

Chapter 5: How to Evaluate Commonly Used Statistical Methods and Outcomes In Clinical Assessment Research

Chapter 6: The Contributions of Factor Analysis to Clinical Assessment

Chapter 7: The Utility of Science-Based Clinical Assessment

Chapter 8: The Conditional and Dynamic Nature of Psychometric Evidence

Chapter 9: Using Data from Multiple Sources in Clinical Assessment

Appendix: The Importance of Content Validity in the Development of Clinical Assessment Instruments

Glossary of Terms and Concepts in the Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment

References

Author Index

Subject Index