BookCarina Coulacoglou, Donald H. Sklofske.
Summary: Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment: Principles and Applications reports on contemporary perspectives and models on psychological assessment and their corresponding measures. It highlights topics relevant to clinical and neuropsychological domains, including cognitive abilities, adaptive behavior, temperament, and psychopathology.Moreover, the book examines a series of standard as well as novel methods and instruments, along with their psychometric properties, recent meta-analytic studies, and their cross-cultural applications.
Contents:
Recent advances in psychological assessment and test construction
Classical test theory, generalizablity theory, and item response perspectives on reliability
Validity
Advances in latent variable measurement modeling
Executive function, theory of mind, and adaptive behavior
Metacognition, empathy, and cognitive biases in schizophrenia and OCD
The role of temperament in development and psychopathology
The assessment of family, parenting, and child outcomes
Perspectives and advances in personality
Measures of personality
Advances in theoretical, developmental and cross-cultural perspectives of psychopathology
Psychiatric taxonomies and corresponding measures
Theoretical perspectives of criminal behaviors and developmental criminology
General overview of violence risk assessment and corresponding measures
The aggressive implications of suicide.