Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment
Essentials of Psychological Assessment
2. Auflage Dezember 2012
512 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret the WAIS-IV.
Providing a clinically rich and innovative theory-based interpretive system, this book offers state-of-the-art interpretation of the most popular intelligence test for adults. In addition, the book is packaged with a CD-ROM containing scoring tables, case report material, worksheets, and a user-friendly software program that fully automates the interpretive system, making Essentials of WAIS-IV Assessment, Second Edition, the best and most authoritative resource of information on this test.
Updated with all of the new research, reviews, and interpretive guidelines:
* Incorporates new research findings on the psychometric quality and clinical utility of the WAIS-IV
* The interpretive system is greatly enhanced by offering the new five-factor CHC approach for ages 16-90 years
* Includes important new insights about administering and scoring subtests
* Includes new chapter on the latest WAIS-IV innovation--Q-interactive(TM)--that allows clinicians to administer WAIS-IV digitally
* Includes information about interpretation across different cultural and linguistic groups
* Provides important new coverage of the Flynn Effect
ABOUT THE CD-ROM
The updated CD-ROM contains scoring tables, case report material, worksheets, and a user-friendly software program that fully automates the interpretive system.
Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
Chapter 2: How to Administer the WAIS-IV
Chapter 3: How to Score the WAIS-IV
Chapter 4: How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Conceptual and Clinical Foundations
Chapter 5: How to Interpret the WAIS-IV: Step-by-Step
Chapter 6: Clinical Applications I: A Neuropsychological Approach to Interpretation of the WAIS-IV and the Use of the WAIS-IV in Learning Disability Assessments
George McCloskey, PhD, Emily S. Hartz, EdS, and Katherine Scipioni, MA
Chapter 7: Clinical Applications II: Age and Intelligence across the Adult Life Span
Chapter 8: Clinical Applications III: WAIS-IV Use with Special Groups, Practice Effects, and Gender Differences
Chapter 9: Strengths and Weaknesses of the WAIS-IV
Ron Dumont and John O. Willis
Chapter 10: Illustrative Case Reports
Chapter 11: The Initial Digital Adaptation of the WAIS-IV
Tommie G. Cayton, Dustin Wahlstrom, Mark H. Daniel
References
Annotated Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
About the CD-ROM
ALAN S. KAUFMAN, PhD, a leading expert on intelligence testing, is Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine. His books, tests, and intelligent testing approach have had worldwide impact on clinical assessment. Dr. Kaufman's approach to test interpretation and his tests-such as KABC-II and KTEA-II, which he co-created with Nadeen Kaufman-reflect an integration of psychometric, theoretical, and clinical perspectives. Alan and Nadeen are the Series Editors of Wiley's Essentials of Psychological Assessment series.
