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Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment

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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.

Author(s): Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O'Brien
Series: Applied Clinical Psychology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 1999

Language: English
Pages: 354

Preliminaries......Page 1
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
I. Introduction to Behavioral Assessment......Page 20
1. Background, Characteristics, and History......Page 22
2. Current Status and Applications......Page 44
3. Functional Psychological Assessment and Clinical Judgment......Page 60
4. Goals......Page 80
II. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Behavioral Assessment......Page 104
5. Scholarly, Hypothesis-Testing, and Time-Series Assessment Strategies......Page 106
6. Idiographic and Nomothetic Assessment......Page 128
7. Specificity of Variables......Page 146
8. Assumptions About the Nature of Behavior Problems......Page 160
9. Basic Concepts of Causation......Page 178
10. Concepts of Causation in the Behavioral Assessment Paradigm......Page 190
11. Psychometric Foundations of Behavioral Assessment......Page 218
III. Observation and Inference......Page 242
12. Principles and Strategies of Behavioral Observation......Page 244
13. Clinical Case Formulation......Page 284
Glossary......Page 312
References......Page 336
Author Index......Page 356
Subject Index......Page 362