Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Anxiety
Author: Martin M. Antony
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2006-04-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0306476282

This volume provides a single resource that contains information on almost all of the measures that have demonstrated usefulness in measuring the presence and severity of anxiety and related disorders. It includes reviews of more than 200 instruments for measuring anxiety-related constructs in adults. These measures are summarized in `quick view grids' which clinicians will find invaluable. Seventy-five of the most popular instruments are reprinted and a glossary of frequently used terms is provided.

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Depression

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Depression
Author: Arthur M. Nezu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2000-04-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 030646246X

This book is intended to guide clinicians and researchers in choosing practical tools relevant for clinical assessment, intervention, and/or research in this area. It contains over 90 reviews of measures of depression and depression-related constructs. It provides summary tables comparing and contrasting different instruments in terms of their time requirements, suitability, costs, administration, reliability, and validity, and sample copies of 25 instruments in the public domain.

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Social Skills

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically Based Measures of Social Skills
Author: Douglas W. Nangle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1441906096

Social skills are at the core of mental health, so much so that deficits in this area are a criterion of clinical disorders, across both the developmental spectrum and the DSM. The Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills gives clinicians and researchers an authoritative resource reflecting the ever growing interest in social skills assessment and its clinical applications. This one-of-a-kind reference approaches social skills from a social learning perspective, combining conceptual background with practical considerations, and organized for easy access to material relevant to assessment of children, adolescents, and adults. The contributors’ expert guidance covers developmental and diversity issues, and includes suggestions for the full range of assessment methods, so readers can be confident of reliable, valid testing leading to appropriate interventions. Key features of the Guide: An official publication of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Describes empirically-based assessment across the lifespan. Provides in-depth reviews of nearly 100 measures, their administration and scoring, psychometric properties, and references. Highlights specific clinical problems, including substance abuse, aggression, schizophrenia, intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and social anxiety. Includes at-a-glance summaries of all reviewed measures. Offers full reproduction of more than a dozen measures for children, adolescents, and adults, e.g. the Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire and the Teenage Inventory of Social Skills. As social skills assessment and training becomes more crucial to current practice and research, the Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Social Skills is a steady resource that clinicians, researchers, and graduate students will want close at hand.

Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of School Behavior

Practitioner’s Guide to Empirically Based Measures of School Behavior
Author: Mary Lou Kelley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0306479346

Children’s display of unacceptable behavior in the school setting, school violence, academic underachievement, and school failure represent a cluster of problems that touches all aspects of society. Children with learning and behavior problems are much more likely to be un- ployed, exhibit significant emotional and behavior disorders in adulthood, as well as become incarcerated. For example, by adolescence, children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity D- order are more likely to be retained a grade, drop out of school, have contact with the law, or fair worse along a number of dimensions than their unaffected siblings (Barkely, 1998). Identification, assessment, and treatment of children with externalizing behavior problems and learningdisabilities is critical to optimizing development and prevention of relatively - tractable behavioral and emotional problems in adulthood. For example, poor interpersonal problem solving and social skills excesses and deficits are strongly associated with poor o- come in adolescence and adulthood. The school is where children learn essential academic, social, and impulse control skills that allow them to function effectively in later years. School is where problems in these areas can be most easily identified and addressed. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of assessment practices for evaluating children’s externalizing behavior problems exhibited in the school environment. Reviews of approximately 100 assessment devices for measuring children’s externalizing problems are included. Instruments include structured interviews, rating scales, and observational methods.

Practitioner's Guide to Evidence-Based Psychotherapy

Practitioner's Guide to Evidence-Based Psychotherapy
Author: Jane E. Fisher
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 760
Release: 2006-11-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0387283706

This book is to help clinical psychologists, clinical social workers, psychiatrists and counselors achieve the maximum in service to their clients. Designed to bring ready answers from scientific data to real life practice, The guide is an accessible, authoritative reference for today’s clinician. There are solid guidelines for what to rule out, what works, what doesn’t work and what can be improved for a wide range of mental health problems. It is organized alphabetically for quick reference and distills vast amounts of proven knowledge and strategies into a user friendly, hands-on reference.

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Depression

Practitioner's Guide to Empirically-Based Measures of Depression
Author: Arthur M. Nezu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2006-05-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0306476290

This book is intended to guide clinicians and researchers in choosing practical tools relevant for clinical assessment, intervention, and/or research in this area. It contains over 90 reviews of measures of depression and depression-related constructs. It provides summary tables comparing and contrasting different instruments in terms of their time requirements, suitability, costs, administration, reliability, and validity, and sample copies of 25 instruments in the public domain.

A CBT Practitioner's Guide to ACT

A CBT Practitioner's Guide to ACT
Author: Joseph Ciarrochi
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1572245514

If recent professional publications and conferences are any indication, acceptance- and mindfulness-based therapies are the future of clinical psychology. A CBT-Practitioner's Guide to ACT helps professionals whose clinical educations focused on traditional, change-based cognitive behavior therapies navigate the practical and theoretical challenges that come with the switch to the more promising, acceptance-based strategies.

Developing Evidence-Based Generalist Practice Skills

Developing Evidence-Based Generalist Practice Skills
Author: Bruce A. Thyer
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-01-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118421175

An essential overview of the core skills needed by every social work practitioner Developing Evidence-Based Generalist Practice Skills features contributions from top scholars in social work practice, presenting essential information for the ethical and effective practice of social work. This clearly written guide provides step-by-step guidance for using evidence-based practice to make joint decisions with clients about assessment and treatment options through a careful consideration of the best available research evidence, the client's preferences and values, professional ethical standards, and other key issues. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book addresses foundational practice skills expected of all social work practitioners, including: Evidence-based practice Trauma-informed practice Interviewing skills Problem identification, contracting, and case planning Case management Advocacy Crisis intervention Practice evaluation Termination, stabilization, and continuity of care Each chapter begins with an overarching question and "what if" scenarios, and ends with a set of suggested key terms, online resources, and discussion questions. Designed as a foundation-level social work education text for undergraduate and graduate students in social work programs, this book meets the Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) for a thorough and up-to-date presentation of core social work skills featuring in-depth scholarship.

A Guide to Assessments that Work

A Guide to Assessments that Work
Author: John Hunsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 777
Release: 2018
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190492244

This volume addresses the assessment of the most commonly encountered disorders or conditions among children, adolescents, adults, older adults, and couples. Strategies and instruments for assessing mood disorders, anxiety and related disorders, couple distress and sexual problems, health-related problems, and many other conditions are reviewed by leading experts.

Psychological Assessment in Clinical Practice

Psychological Assessment in Clinical Practice
Author: Michel Hersen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135951675

Appropriate for students and practitioners alike, this book teaches readers how to perform assessments on patients in the absence of the instruments and assistants that many standard procedures assume.