2013年11月10日 · Psychological testing may sound intimidating, but it’s designed to help you. Psychologists use tests and other assessment tools to measure and observe a patient’s behavior to arrive at a diagnosis and guide treatment.

The purpose of the American Psychological Association (APA) Guidelines for Psychological Assessment and Evaluation (PAE) is to assist and inform psychologists of best practice when psychological instruments, including psychometric tests and collateral information, are used within the practice of psychological assessment and/or evaluation.

research on clinical judgment and decision-making; and studies supporting or leading to translation of basic psychological research in cognition, personality–social psychology, and biological psychology to clinical psychological assessment. The focus of the journal is on all aspects of clinical assessment.

Psychological testing may sound intimidating, but it’s designed to help you. Psychologists use tests and other assessment tools to measure and observe a patient’s behavior to arrive at a diagnosis and guide treatment.

2020年3月1日 · For example, someone might score high on a performance-based measure of interpersonal dependence, like the Rorschach test, but low on a self-report measure of interpersonal dependence, says Bornstein, one of the editors of “Multimethod Clinical Assessment” (Guilford Press, 2014).

For example, if the purpose of an assessment is a quick check for understanding or to use the data to make a teaching decision or get students to fix misconceptions, the assessment is going to look diferent from one designed to provide data for an evaluation at the “end” of learning.

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Information about the psychological assessment of disturbances in thinking and perception has until now been widely scattered in the literature. Books, book chapters, and journal articles addressing this topic have, for the most part, been narrowly focused on the use of one particular instrument or the assessment of a single diagnostic category.

Therapeutic Assessment is a short-term intervention in which traditional psychological tests are used collaboratively with clients to help them understand themselves better and find solutions to their persistent problems. In its underlying philosophy, Therapeutic Assessment is related to humanistic and human-science psychology, to narrative, interpersonal, and systemic models …

Assessments must be tailored to the characteristics of the caregiver (e.g,. age, cultural background) and the care recipient (e.g., age, specific disability).