Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction to the Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment: The Fundamental Relations Among Clinical Assessment, Measurement, and Clinical Science -- 2.Reliability -- 3.Validity -- 4.Applying Psychometric Evidence to Clinical Decisions -- 5.Clinical Utility and Decision Making -- 6.Understanding Patterns Among Measures Through Factor Analysis -- 7.The Conditional Nature of Psychometric Evidence -- 8.How to Evaluate Commonly Used Statistical Methods in Clinical Assessment Research -- 9.Using Multiple Sources of Data in Clinical Assessment.
Summary:
"Scientific Foundations of Clinical Assessment is a user-friendly overview of the most important science-based principles and concepts of clinical assessment. It provides readers with a science-based framework for interpreting assessment research and making good assessment decisions, such as selecting the best instruments and measures, and interpreting the obtained assessment data. Written in a direct and highly readable fashion, this text is one every professional and graduate student needs"--Provided by publisher.
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