Advances in Psychological Assessment

Abstract

(from the preface) This volume is the seventh in an ongoing series addressed to the developing frontiers in psychological assessment. The overall aim of the series is to bring critical examinations of recent advances in assessment to clinicians, researchers, university teachers, and graduate students, and thus to help them to keep abreast of an important and rapidly expanding field of psychology. The term psychological assessment, as used in this series, encompasses all of the various techniques-tests, rating scales, interview schedules, surveys, direct observational methods, and psychophysiological procedures-that are employed in scientifically based practice and research to provide an improved understanding of individual persons, groups, or environmental settings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).