This popular text is designed to give you a broad understanding about the social work profession and the role that the profession plays in the social welfare system. The authors demonstrate that there are many reasons why social problems occur. You'll explore the history, values, economic, political and cultural factors that surround these issues, ...
This revision of the highly acclaimed and most widely used resource on psychological assessment features thorough coverage of the principles of assessment, evaluation, referral, treatment planning and report writing. Material is presented in a practical, skills-based manner (e.g. how to integrate test data into treatment plans and writing ...
This book should be of interest to undergraduate and graduate courses in direct practice, generalist practice, clinical social work, interpersonal practice and social work practice.
Organized around the authors' coherent and cohesive Generalist Intervention Model, this introductory guide to generalist social work practice gives you the knowledge and skills needed to work with individuals and families, as well as the foundation knowledge from a generalist perspective to work with groups, communities, and organizations. The ...
This is a careful and thoroughly updated revision of the most highly acclaimed and successful undergraduate text in testing over the last fifteen years. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENT examines the philosophical, historical, and methodological foundations of psychological testing, assessment, and measurement, while helping students appreciate ...
MMPI-2: Assessing Personality and Psychopathology, 3/E is an updated version of a book that has been used extensively in graduate courses in psychological assessment and by others who are interested in learning about the MMPI-2, conducting research concerning the MMPI-2, or using the MMPI-1 clinically. The development of the original MMPI is ...
Intended for courses titled psychological testing, an undergraduate level course taken as an elective by psychology, education, and sometimes nursing majors. This third edition offers an analysis of the most widely-used tests in educational, industrial, clinical, and health settings and it communicates the excitement and dynamics of the field. It ...
Offers students a balanced, integrated introduction to human behaviour in the social environment. The authors look at biopsychosocial development across the lifespan using an integrative multidimensional approach, discussing integrative practice, theory, treatment and services throughout.
Now you can get involved in actual hands-on social work practice! Cournoyer's comprehensive workbook/textbook lets you rehearse and practice core skills needed for contemporary social work practice. The author includes interesting case examples and situations that clearly illustrate the essential skills of social work practice. As you work your ...
The goal of this text is to provide students with substantial knowledge about the characteristics, objectives, and wide-ranging effects of psychological testing. In addition to the breadth of coverage of traditional topics, the third edition of Psychological Testing provides detailed presentations on neuropsychological and geriatric assessment, ...
Designed to give you a solid introduction to the profession of social work, INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WELFARE helps you understand the issues that social workers address every day. Using clear, engaging prose, author Kirst-Ashman presents a balanced overview within a unifying theme of critical thinking that will train you to be more ...
A comprehensive introduction to foundation macro practice. Encouraging students to build on their one on one and group communication skills, the authors outline a guided, step by step plan for community and organisational change.
A successor to the extremely popular "Essentials of WISC-III/WPPSI-R Assessment" (0-471-34501-6), "Essentials of WISC-IV Assessment" provides beginning and seasoned clinicians comprehensive guidelines to administering, scoring, and interpreting the latest revision of the "Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children". Featuring the popular Essentials ...
This text focuses on the skills social workers use in the helping process. It defines, illustrates, and teaches helping skills and provides manageable models for understanding them. The book also looks at the underlying process and its associated set of core skills. A range of helping situations are addressed so that social workers can find useful ...
Ashford and LeCroy's groundbreaking book offers students a balanced, integrated introduction to human behavior in the social environment. Lively and comprehensive, this book succeeds by helping students connect foundation knowledge with practice concerns. Study tables and concept maps (for each discussion of behavior in the development chapters) ...
The psychiatric interview is your window into the mind of your patient. With this practical, how-to handbook, you'll examine each aspect of the psychiatric interview in detail. Your journey begins with the general principles essential to effective interviewing - including techniques for approaching threatening topics, improving patient recall, and ...
This is an instructive guide to preparing informative and accurate assessment reports for a variety of individuals and settings. Assessment reports are central to the diagnostic process and are used to inform parents, clients, and clinicians, among others, about academic problems, personality functioning, neuropsychological strengths and ...
Incorporates concise, comprehensive coverage of eleven major clinical practice theories that social workers commonly use in their assessment, planning and intervention tasks with individuals, families and groups.
This respected text skillfully combines evidence-based interviewing skills and cognitive-behavioral intervention change strategies applicable to a wide range of client ages, cultural backgrounds, and problems in living. The book interweaves attention to conceptual and empirical foundations with an emphasis on practical skills and real-life factors ...
This clinical interviewing primer blends a personal and easy-to-read style with an emphasis on both the scientific foundations and interpersonal aspects of mental health interviewing. Written from an integrative/eclectic perspective, this second edition incorporates modifications made necessary by the rise of managed care and revised thinking in ...
The leading text in appraisal for counselors, is a thorough overview covering basic measurement theory and all relevant tests. It provides guidance on how and when to use tests in different environments with different populations, and practical guidance on basic procedures like test selection, administration, and reporting. Key revisions include ...
This is an excellent primer on the key concepts of psychometrics. ??i??Essentials of Psychological Testing??i?? surveys the basic principles of psychometrics, supplies the information needed to understand and evaluate tests, and introduces readers to the major contemporary reference works in the field. It is the only book to provide such a ...
"Psychometric Theory" is a classic text. Like the previous edition, this text is designed as a comprehensive text in measurement for researchers and for use in graduate courses in psychology, education and areas of business such as management and marketing. It is intended to consider the broad measurement problems that arise in these areas and is ...
This volume takes clinicians step-be-step through developing a dynamic case formulation and using this information to guide and inform treatment decisions.
A revision of the basic text/reference on administering, scoring and interpreting the Rorschach according to the Comprehensive System, now the most widely used approach to the test. It reflects new data generated in research done since the publication of the first edition in 1973. Samples have been enlarged and the descriptive statistics expanded. ...
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