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Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment

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Authors:
  1. Stephen N. Haynes

    1. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

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  2. William Hayes O’Brien

    1. Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

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  • Presents the characteristics and underlying assumptions of the behavioral assessment paradigm and shows how they affect the strategies of behavioral assessment

Part of the book series: Applied Clinical Psychology (ACPH)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction to Behavioral Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Background, Characteristics, and History

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 3-24

    3. Current Status and Applications

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 25-40

    4. Functional Psychological Assessment and Clinical Judgment

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 41-60

    5. Goals

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 61-83

  3. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of Behavioral Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. Scholarly, Hypothesis-Testing, and Time-Series Assessment Strategies

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 87-107

    3. Idiographic and Nomothetic Assessment

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 109-126

    4. Specificity of Variables

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 127-139

    5. Assumptions About the Nature of Behavior Problems

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 141-158

    6. Basic Concepts of Causation

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 159-170

    7. Concepts of Causation in the Behavioral Assessment Paradigm

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 171-197

    8. Psychometric Foundations of Behavioral Assessment

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 199-222

  4. Observation and Inference

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      Pages 223-223
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    2. Principles and Strategies of Behavioral Observation

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 225-263

    3. Clinical Case Formulation

      • Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien
      Pages 265-292

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 293-348
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Keywords

About this book

Behavioral assessment is a psychological assessment paradigm that emphasizes empirically supported, multimethod and multi-informant assessment of specific, observable behaviors and contemporaneous causal variables in the natural environment. The behavioral assessment paradigm stresses the use of well-validated assessment instruments and assumptions that social/environmental, cognitive, and physiological variables are often important sources of behavior variance.

The behavioral assessment paradigm has had a major influence on the field of psychological assessment. It has affected the way research on the causes of behavior disorders is conducted, the way treatment processes and outcomes are evaluated, and the way treatment decisions are made.

The goal of this book is to present the characteristics and underlying assumptions of the behavioral assessment paradigm and to show how they affect the strategies of behavioral assessment. Although all of the concepts and strategies discussed in this book are applicable in the research, this book focuses on the use of behavioral assessment to guide clinical judgements.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA

    Stephen N. Haynes

  • Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

    William Hayes O’Brien

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Principles and Practice of Behavioral Assessment

  • Authors: Stephen N. Haynes, William Hayes O’Brien

  • Series Title: Applied Clinical Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-47469-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46221-4Published: 30 November 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-0971-1Published: 16 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47469-9Published: 27 October 2003

  • Series ISSN: 1566-7820

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 348

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Health Psychology

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