Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment / by Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haynes, Stephen N.

Contributor:

O'Brien, William Hayes.

Series:

Applied Clinical Psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical psychology.

Clinical health psychology.

Clinical Psychology.

Health Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Clinical Psychology.

Health Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2000.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Behavioral assessment is a psychological assessment paradigm that emphasizes empirically supported, multimethod and multi-informant assessment of specific, observable behaviors and contemporaneous causal variables in the natural environment. The behavioral assessment paradigm stresses the use of well-validated assessment instruments and assumptions that social/environmental, cognitive, and physiological variables are often important sources of behavior variance. The behavioral assessment paradigm has had a major influence on the field of psychological assessment. It has affected the way research on the causes of behavior disorders is conducted, the way treatment processes and outcomes are evaluated, and the way treatment decisions are made. The goal of this book is to present the characteristics and underlying assumptions of the behavioral assessment paradigm and to show how they affect the strategies of behavioral assessment. Although all of the concepts and strategies discussed in this book are applicable in the research, this book focuses on the use of behavioral assessment to guide clinical judgements.

Contents:

I. Introduction to Behavioral Assessment

1. Background, Characteristics, and History

2. Current Status and Applications

3. Functional Psychological Assessment and Clinical Judgment

4. Goals

II. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Behavioral Assessment

5. Scholarly, Hypothesis-Testing, and Time-Series Assessment Strategies

6. Idiographic and Nomothetic Assessment

7. Specificity of Variables

8. Assumptions About the Nature of Behavior Problems

9. Basic Concepts of Causation

10. Concepts of Causation in the Behavioral Assessment Paradigm

11. Psychometric Foundations of Behavioral Assessment

III. Observation and Inference

12. Principles and Strategies of Behavioral Observation

13. Clinical Case Formulation

References

Author Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-335) and index.

ISBN:

1-4757-0971-4

0-306-47469-7

OCLC:

923696967