Psychology & Psychiatry : Assessment, Testing & Measurement

ESFPs take their energy from the outside world of actions and spoken words. They prefer dealing with facts, which they usually take at face value. They also prefer dealing with the present and with people, and probably derive much enjoyment out of friendships. Psychological Type Indicator (PTI) booklets provide an easy-to-understand reference for this type (based on Carl Jung’s psychological type theory). Each booklet also includes a one page overview on each of the four relevant preferences. These pages make suggestions regarding time management, conflict, careers and general personality hints. more...

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Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret various brief intelligence tests. Essentials of Assessment with Brief Intelligence Tests efficiently presents, in the popular Essentials format, concise information on the range of brief intelligence tests that are used most often in school and clinical practices and provides an overview and definition of brief intelligence testing as well as its uses and limitations. more...

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Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to effectively assesscreativity, a popular measure of cognitive ability correlated with intelligence. Essentials of Creativity Assessment presents balanced coverage of the wide variety of assessments that can be used to gauge creativity, enabling mental health professionals to select the creativity assessment method that best fits the situations, groups of people, and programs that are involved. Written to gather as many resources as possible to enable professionals to make their own judgment about the most appropriate creativity assessments, this timely book covers:.:.; Divergent Thinking Tests.; The Consensual Assessment Technique.; Self Assessment.; Assessment by Others: Teacher, Peer, and Parent Measures. Like all the volumes in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book is designed to help busy mental health professionals quickly acquire the knowledge and skills they need to make optimal use of major psychological assessment instruments. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as test questions that help readers gauge and reinforce their grasp of the information covered. Offering myriad ways to assess creativity, Essentials of Creativity Assessment arms readers to find the most appropriate technique or combination of techniques for their particular creativity assessment purposes. Other titles in the Essentials of Psychological Assessment series:.:.; Essentials of Assessment Report Writing.; Essentials of WISC(r)-IV Assessment.; Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment, Second Edition.; Essentials of WJ III Tests of Achievement Assessment.; Essentials of WJ III Cognitive Abilities Assessment.; Essentials of Stanford-Binet (SB5) Assessment.; Essentials of School Neuropsychological Assessment.; Essentials of Processing Assessment.; Essentials of DAS-II(r) Assessment.; Essentials of Millon Inventorie more...

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Neuropsychological testing can identify changes in cognition, behavior, and emotion; aid in determining the cause of the change (e.g. neurologic disease, psychiatric disorders, or developmental problems); and assist clinicians in planning treatment and rehabilitation. To use these tests properly, professionals need an authoritative source of advice and guidance on how to administer, score, and interpret them. Written by two leading experts in neuropsychological assessment, Essentials of Neuropsychological Assessment is that source. more...

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Packaged in the popular Essentials format, this book introduces the fundamental information needed to understand this vastly complex, technical, and dynamic field. Its unique coverage of psychometrics basics is broad and presented in an engaging style. more...

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