Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment

by Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O'Brien

Overview

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 judgments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475709711
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/16/2012
Series:	Applied Clinical Psychology
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Haynes, Stephen N. (Univ of Hawaii); O'Brien, William Hayes (Bowling Green State Univ)

Table of Contents

Preface. Acknowledgements. 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. Models of Causality for Behavior Problems. 11. Psychometric Foundations of Behavioral Assessment. III: Observation and Inference. 12. Behavioral Observation: Principles and Methods. 13. Clinical Case Formulation. Index.

Editorial Reviews

This volume presents the characteristics and underlying assumptions of the behavioral assessment paradigm, showing how they affect procedural strategies. Divided into three sections, the volume's eleven chapters address the basic concepts, applications, and goals of behavioral assessment; the concepts and assumptions underlying behavioral assessment; and observations and inference in behavioral assessment. Hayes and O'Brien (U. of Hawaii-Manoa and Bowling Green State U., respectively) assume readers will have some familiarity with basic concepts in psychological assessment, measurement, research design, and psychometrics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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