Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment

• Main Authors: Haynes, Stephen N. (Author), OỚ"Brien, William Hayes. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Series: Applied Clinical Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Health psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Health Psychology.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Behavioral assessment is a psychological assessment paradigm that emphasizes empirically supported, multimethod and multi-informant assessment of specific, observable behaviors and contemporaneous causal variables in the natural environment. The behavioral assessment paradigm stresses the use of wel...

Table of Contents:

• I. Introduction to Behavioral Assessment
• 1. Background, Characteristics, and History
• 2. Current Status and Applications
• 3. Functional Psychological Assessment and Clinical Judgment
• 4. Goals
• II. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Behavioral Assessment
• 5. Scholarly, Hypothesis-Testing, and Time-Series Assessment Strategies
• 6. Idiographic and Nomothetic Assessment
• 7. Specificity of Variables
• 8. Assumptions About the Nature of Behavior Problems
• 9. Basic Concepts of Causation
• 10. Concepts of Causation in the Behavioral Assessment Paradigm
• 11. Psychometric Foundations of Behavioral Assessment
• III. Observation and Inference
• 12. Principles and Strategies of Behavioral Observation
• 13. Clinical Case Formulation
• References
• Author Index.