Conducting Psychological Assessment. A Guide For Practitioners

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wiley
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 500 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Beginning-to-end, step-by-step guidance on how to conduct multi-method psychological assessments from a leader in the field The Second Edition of Conducting Psychological Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners delivers an insightful overview of the overall integrative psychological assessment process. Rather than focus on individual tests, accomplished assessment psychologist, professor, and author A. Jordan Wright offers readers a comprehensive roadmap of how to navigate the multi-method psychological assessment process. This newest edition maintains the indispensable foundational models from the first edition and adds nuance and details from the authors last ten years of clinical and academic experience. New ways of integrating and reconciling conflicting data are discussed, as are new models of personality functioning. All readers of this book will benefit from: A primer on the overall process of psychological assessment An explanation of how to integrate the data from the administration, scoring, and interpretation phases into a fully conceptualized report Actual case examples and sample assessment cases that span the entire process Perfect for people in training programs in health service psychology, including clinical, counseling, school, and forensic programs, Conducting Psychological Assessment also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone conducting assessments of human functioning. Industry Reviews "This new addition of Wrights useful text is a tour de force. No one else writes more clearly, practically, and helpfully than Wright about psychological assessment--especially about the complex process of case conceptualization. This book should be required reading in every graduate course on psychological assessment." Stephen E. Finn, Ph.D. Founder, Center for Therapeutic Assessment

ISBN: 9780470536759